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(Originally posted by chevalier)

Here are today's BioWare forum highlights, collected by NWVault. Please take into account that these are only single parts of various threads and should not be taken out of context. Bear in mind also that the posts presented here are copied as-is, and that any bad spelling and grammar does not get corrected on our end.

Derek French, Live Team Producer

NWN:SoU European CD Key issues

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its pathetic that Bioware releases this with such a flaw.
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Its important to understand that we, the Developer, have absolutely NOTHING to do with this issue. CD Keys are printed at a CD manufacturing plant under the supervision of the Publisher. We supply the Publisher with CD Keys, but after that, the entire process is out of out control. You need to get in contact with the Atari support division in your region.

Jay Watamaniuk, Community Manager

Looking for expert NWN fans
Brilliant folks- keep them coming!

More: Subject: General Tips

Name: Jay Watamaniuk

Taking screen shots: Go into your game settings and make sure that all feedback is turned off. Feedback is the text that appears on screen to indicate damage, spell effects and so on. Go to advanced video settings and crank up your resolution, your anti-aliasing (try for 4X), Full shadows, full grass the whole meal deal. You are taking a screenshot not trying for smooth gameplay. If you are playing, use pause and rotate around to see if there any better angles for the shot. Obviously it is much better to edit out the pause icon (using Photoshop or something similair). For super-advanced screenshots create your scene with the toolset and use the DM Client to jump from creature to create during a pause to get the very best angles on the action.

Georg Zoeller, Designer

Hacker Party in our Midst
Please send "demands" targeted to a single person using private messages. And while your at it, I think not using the word "stupid" generally improves the chance of a post being taken seriously. Last warning in this thread, I'm going to clean it of certain posts if it proves impossible to keep it civil. As for the topic of blacklists, as said, BioWare doesn't want to be part of it. We do however not care about server admins founding their own guild and use it to share the public cdkeys of people that they found disrupting gameplay on their servers, because those are *their servers* and they can do with them as they please and they can select the players they want to have on their servers. It needs to be noted that there are examples of successful, player run blacklists (i.e. for PunkBuster supported games) as well as examples where these lists were disrupted by griefers (Diablo I). As said, keep it civil or I'm going to make use of the delete button to remove overly aggressive/disrespectful posts in this forum. I have no trouble with this thread staying in this forum, but I would suggest moving future discussion about this topic into a guild forum.

Stopping inappropriate names
I think there is a namefilter.2da not sure if it would work in a hakpak however.

Tim Smith, Tools Programmer

What is TRUE and what is FALSE?
FALSE = 0
TRUE = 1

However, when NWScript tests for "TRUE" it does not do "x == TRUE", it does "x != FALSE".

For example:

if (FALSE) // clause not taken
if (TRUE) // clause taken
if (0) // clause not taken
if (1) // clause taken
if (2) // clause taken
if (0 == TRUE) // clause not taken
if (1 == TRUE) // clause taken
if (2 == TRUE) // clause not taken!!!!!!

Which is why it is a VERY BAD IDEA to do

if (x == TRUE)

Never test to see if something is TRUE, always test to see if something is not FALSE. This wouldn't be a problem if NWScript had a true boolean type. (IMHO, you should never test for TRUE or FALSE, use proper Boolean operators such as ! to not the boolean value and let the if statement implicitly test for not FALSE.)

Craig Welburn, Live Team Programmer

nwserver.exe wont work

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I've seen this problem (if I understand you correctly) before and it's caused by nwserver not finding the resources it needs, usually because you've started it in the wrong directory (you need to supply the correct 'Start In' directory otherwise it won't find the files it needs). Try checking the shortcut (if you used one).
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This sounds about right. If the text labels on the controls are not showing up, it sounds like nwserver.exe can't find the dialog.tlk file (which contains all the button text information) for some reason.