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|Wed, 5th Jun '02, 4:47am
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Are Imoen's theiveing skills good enough to get though TOB. I just mean her lockpicking and detect traps abilities. I am going to use Edwin as my mage because he's got 18 intelegence but I need a thief too. I dont want to use Jan because I want Imoen in my party and 3 mages and 2 theives are two many.
|Wed, 5th Jun '02, 6:19am
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I might be wrong, but I THINK ( - and someone correct me if I'm wrong, please - ) Imoen's thief skills will never increase from what they currently are.
I also think that her skills will be more than enough. I never really used her as a mage, but then again, I never really used her for her thief skills either. I don't really know what I used her for...
But back to the point, her [thief] abilities are probably enough to suffice. Edwin is a better choice as a mage, just because he's Edwin Odeisseron.. just ask him.
Hope I helped.
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|Wed, 5th Jun '02, 9:38am
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You can increase her (really bad) thieving skills with items that enhance these abilities (Amulet of Master Harper, Ring of Danger Sense, Gloves of PickPocketing etc.) And also before trying to steal something, use a couple Potions of Master Thievery.
And yes there is no problem getting through ToB with her thieving skills (and a little help from the above items).
|Wed, 5th Jun '02, 10:31am
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I open up Shadowkeeper and just convert her to a pure thief. There are much better mages in the game but no good thieves.
|Wed, 5th Jun '02, 12:42pm
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NALIA is a good thief. NALIA is a good mage. I never used Imoen or Edwin in TOB, because Nalia copuld do what they could do, and most of it she did better. (well ok maybe Edwin is a better mage, but I disliked his caracter )
Does this answer your question?
|Wed, 5th Jun '02, 12:52pm
Mmm... hot tea!
What kind of lazy s.o.b. are you? "Imoen" as the only topic header? That's useless!
[Let's remedy that, shall we?] -Tal
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|Wed, 5th Jun '02, 8:33pm
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You're probably right about Nalia being a better mage, but wrong about her being a better thief, at least in the areas that Archer is needing. Check these stats.. I'll only go with Open Locks and Find Traps because that's all you really need throughout the game. You can never really pick-pocket any GOOD items.
Open Locks: 70
Find Traps: 75
Open Locks: 35
Find Traps: 70
I never used Nalia long enough to find out how her mage skills were, but neither her nor Imoen have any good thieving skills to get up and cheer over.
|Thu, 6th Jun '02, 1:28am
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Thank you. So with the items I shouldnt realy have a problem.
And Nalia is NOT a good theif at all. She cant even get through he own home with the skills she has. SleepleSS, I don't see how you think she is a good theif unless you brought her skills up by cheating. And I think Edwin is funny.
And your a little bit hostile there arn't you Earl Grey. But I should have made a better topic header. No reason to get mad though. sheesh
|Thu, 6th Jun '02, 8:36am
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Well I think shadow keeper must have made a move over her thieving skills then...
I did use it once early in the game so it could be possible....
But if she travels with you for a long time she gets higher skills, and climbs to over 100% at all thieving skills, isn't she? and since I created monster to fight against when I was bored, that could have leveld her up more quickly than what is possible in a real game...
|Thu, 6th Jun '02, 6:59pm
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A dual classed thief/mage can't increase their thief skills, so you must've cheated.
|Thu, 6th Jun '02, 8:50pm
Ain't we funkin' now
Imoen is extremely useful in TOB. The advantage to the dual class Thief/Mage is the ability to use a bow. She makes an excellent archer.
Sleeless, no she does not get additional thieving skills. Those skills are acquired by leveling up as a thief. Since she is dual classed, she cannot level up as a thief anymore.
|Thu, 6th Jun '02, 11:30pm
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I just think of Imoen as a really good mage who can wear bladesinger chain and has two additional skills of finding traps and unlocking doors (and if she misses a couple of traps so what?).
Oh yes. And the bow - good with that one with unlimited arrows.
|Fri, 7th Jun '02, 8:46am
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hmmm... I shall start a new game then and check her skills again. Maybe I was just lucky all the time...
But about this dual class thing, why is it that she can become a better mage, but not a better thief? I mean why can't you choose witch class you like to "upgrade".
Speaking aboud cheating: If you use the console to spawn Alora or Safana (From BG1) and then use shadowkeeper on them to make them fighter/thief instead of thief. Than the do level up as a thief but not as a fighter, is this for the same reason as the mage/thief buisness?
|Fri, 7th Jun '02, 6:31pm
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Because when you dual-class, you effectively become a new class, but retain your old abilities. So it's not a thief/mage (or whatever), but a mage with thief skills. Only multi-classes (non-humans) increase both their classes.
|Fri, 7th Jun '02, 8:22pm
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So that's why it did work for my half elf Fighter-Mage! Now I get it! Wait a sec...
Thief level 5
Open Locks: 95
Detecting traps: 110
Pick pocketing: 35
Move Silently: 20
This is not possible withoud sheeting? (This are her stats at the beginning of TOB after I draged her trough my SOA game...
|Sat, 8th Jun '02, 1:56am
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With items those are possible scores. What are the base ones?
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Everything about Imoen sucks! Any NPC theif sucks. Multi-class your PC as a theif, and you'll do just fine. That way, there are less NPCs in your group, and everyone gets more XP.
|Sat, 8th Jun '02, 1:09pm
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But in that case you'll have room for one more buff npc, and when you take him/her, the party will actually receive less xp...
|Sat, 8th Jun '02, 1:18pm
Imoen huh, Whats the deal with everyone wanting to play 'good'. If you ask me its really strange, there are always probs or restrictions you must have when playing good, but none when playing EVIL, or even neutral. Edwin is by far the best mage, I mean +3spells per lvl is just practicly rigged, Plus youll notice having an evil party (or neutral) is much more fun, and funny (Love edwin and korgan!)
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But if you play evil, don't you have to pay more at stores, constantly pestered by authorities, and worry about good party members (Keldorn, Minsc) leaving? I just don't see the advantages of playing an evil PC.
|Mon, 10th Jun '02, 9:27am
Next elven archer gets me axe in his belly
No. How much you have to pay at stores depends solely on your reputation. Authorities pestering you is also dependant of your reputation. The advantage of being evil is that you can do anything you want, and get away with it. Try that with a Paladin or Ranger, and you become fallen. The 'advantage' of an evil character is, if you roleplay him correctly, you'll get some nice evil dialogs
|Mon, 10th Jun '02, 8:39pm
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Just because you are evil does not mean you have to have a bad reputation. On the contrary, I'd imagine evil parties would be more prone to high reputation as to cover thier real intentions.
|Tue, 11th Jun '02, 12:22pm
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I always played neutral! so I could keep Both Nalia and Viconia happy! Neutral rules! You are a son of god, so remember BALANCE in ALL things!
|Thu, 27th Jun '02, 5:40am
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Yoshimo is a very good theif but of course that will change later.
|Thu, 27th Jun '02, 11:26am
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Item costs are dependant on 2 things in fact.
Reputation and charisma. Ragusa did some research a long time ago as to effects of charisma on item cost. I believe the lowest item cost was at charisma 24 or so, but he might correct me on that...
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Dedicated to Anyone that has Loved and know Love ……..
If one wishes to know love, one must live love, in action.
Leo Buscaglia
We are all born from Gods' love – we die with Gods' love and we do all we can do to find love in between our birth and our death. Searching, seeking and longing for that true love……we were created to LOVE….
What is it about LOVE and why are so many searching for it?
I'm certain there are thousands upon thousands of stories written on the subject of ecstasy and longing. Music galore about rising in love or falling out of love and many sonnets written about the heart connection.
We find love, we spend time with love, and know this must be LOVE, and then we do all we can to sabotage love, and walk away from it, in order to go find a more suitable love, for we think the grass is greener on the other side. Or could it be possible we don't feel deserving of the love that is in front of us?
I really don't get it – Do you?
Is love an emotion, a feeling, a verb or noun? The road to love can be long or not so long, can be lovely, can be adventurous, can be filled with joy or pain, can be a multitude of things. I looked up the definition of love and this is what I found.
Love is a profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person. When I googled, "What is it about love," I found: QUIZ: Is it Love? WOW – now you can take a quiz to make sure it's love! (I'm not sure if I want to do that)…..
Scientists say that the brain chemistry of infatuation is akin to mental illness – which gives new meaning to "madly in love."
Love is about how the other person makes you feel. The fact of the matter is that love involves non-verbal reactions – synaptic (chemical) connections within our brains. Since I love to research, I did some research on LOVE.
I discovered that the species that stick to one mate usually have a rich flow of another chemical called vasopressin, the "monogamy" chemical. Experiments done with males injected with this chemical brought out all the evidence needed. Isolating males before and after mating, he was indifferent to all females. But 24 hours after mating, he is hooked for life. The jealous mate syndrome sets in too.
Another chemical is Oxycontin, the "cuddling" chemical. It promotes the need to be physically held, have close contact with the mater, and makes the sexes more caring. It can be released simply by a lover's look, smell or even a fantasy.
When infatuation subsides, another chemical takes over which is responsible for intimate relationships, these chemicals are created by endorphin's. They make a relationship steadier, intimate, dependable, warm and a great sharing experience. They do not induce a giddy high, but calmness and stability….hence the reason why people stay married or in partnership. This chemical is addictive so the longer a couple stays married or in partnership, the longer two people stay together. It is endorphin's that trigger grief on a spouse's death or long separation, those yearnings for togetherness. Adrenaline love is being in love with the idea of being in love. With endorphin love, we like loving someone.
There are foods that can intensify love…..
We eat aphrodisiacs (named after the Greek Goddess of Love – Aphrodite) to enhance love: chocolate, oysters, turtle eggs eaten raw with salt and lime (haven't tried this one yet); asparagus, almonds, avocado, bananas, basil, figs, garlic and honey.
Now that we know about the chemicals and foods involved in the "love" process:
What is it about love and the longing to have it in our lives?
There are so many dating sites to meet the "ONE" but yet we are lonelier and lonelier as a society. Here are a few statistics from Match.com: People over age 50 makes up Match.com's fastest growing segment of users, with a 300% increase since 2000.
WHAT is that all about?
Is it because our biological clocks of younger years is ticking away and we wake up one day with more wrinkles and the reality that we are not getting any younger and no one to share our golden years with…..
75% of women and 81% of men in their 50's experience a serious, exclusive relationship after a divorce.
There really are a lot of fish in the sea: According to the Census Bureau, 29% of adults age 45-59 are now single, compared with only 19% in 1980.
I listen to so many single women including myself at one point in my life state, "Where are the men?" I listen to so many single men and they say, "Where are the women?" They must "NOT" be out there since I'm hearing the same thing from both sexes; or are they and the real reason we haven't found the ONE for us is because we have been so busy in dating so many men and men women, that it's been a distraction in truly discovering ourselves out and working on US? I read in Don Miguel Ruiz book, "The Mastery of Love" that we must be 100% complete in ourselves in order to attract that perfect one for you. Once you accept yourself just the way you are, the next step is to accept your partner the same way.
It makes sense to me, does it you?
If you have the eyes of love, you just see love wherever you are, even in the imperfect – When you perceive with the eyes of love, you can connect your will with the will of another dreamer, and the dream becomes ONE. Then you can see with the eyes of an eagle or transform into any kind of life. With your love you connect with the eagle and you become the wings. But to do this, you need to clean the mind of fear and perceive with the eyes of love. If you can open your heart completely to your partner, you can reach heaven through your love.
When we fulfill the needs of our mind and our body, our eyes see with love. We see God everywhere. I love what Don Miguel Ruiz says, "But when we know that our heart is a magical kitchen, we are always generous, and our love is completely unconditional." I love the analogy of our heart being a magical kitchen…..I believe in MAGIC and Fairy Tales Do Come True!
We have this notion of love in the famous line from the movie "Jerry McGuire" where Tom Cruise tells Renee Zellweger , "You complete me." Are you kidding me – why did they not edit that line from the movie? Hey, it's Hollywood and they can say anything to make us say, "AWWWWWHHHHHH!" So we look for someone that can say to us, "You complete me." I believe a better term may be – "You compliment me."……. It truly is a beautiful gift to us when we compliment and not complete. I much rather use the term from the movie, "As Good As It Gets" where Jack Nicholson tells Helen Hunt, "you make me want to be a better man."
Once we awaken to self and clean up our houses (our temples -mind and body), then the awakening is like being at a party where there are hundreds of people and everyone is drunk except you. You are the only sober person at the party. Most humans see the world through their emotional wounds, through their emotional poison. Here lies the problem of not being awake and aware.
When in the awakened state, your heart is an expression of the Spirit, an expression of Love, an expression of Life. It's being aware that you are Life. When you are aware that you are the force that is Life, anything is possible. Miracles happen all the time, because those miracles are performed by the heart. The heart is in communion with the human soul, and when the heart speaks even with the resistance of the mind, something inside you changes; your heart opens another heart, and TRUE LOVE is possible. It's in opening another's heart there lies the chemicals, the passion, the Love that we are ALL either trying to find or keep.
Almost all relationships start with what can I "get" from it rather then what can I "bring" to it; I believe that we have to be selfless and selfishness abounds us these days….the other part is to choose wisely. We tend to choose what is familiar to us whether it feels good or not because it is what we know…we change it by our thoughts about ourselves, our actions and constant vigilance of those thoughts…..BELIEVE IN YOURSELF and change the way you think!
Love enables you to stand for yourself in an honorable and gracious way; with no hidden agendas; with no room for negativity. In its purest form – UNCONDITIONAL!
Only time can reveal if it's REAL: "True love is attached to us with invisible ties. These ties connect our spirits and souls that only we can understand."
For the MAGIC of love and the volumes written and sung about it; it continues to afflict us generation after generation.
So the bottom line in all this LOVE talk is we are put on this earth to experience LOVE in its purest form – to get closer to our GOD, Source Energy, Universe (whatever you wish to call this power) for HIS love is unconditional – and in so doing we discover that HE is LOVE, LIGHT and TRUTH – all the things that we search for in a lifetime are all wrapped up in our Divine. We crave all these things in human form – so it is in acquiring the eyes of GOD and having your eyes fixed on Source Energy, then this should make the love process easier to find and keep, for love never fails…..
Where there is GREAT LOVE, there are GREAT MIRACLES…..
L'amore vince tutto (Love conquers all)…. (Italian)
Be the change by the power of love and sharing it……
Remember, may the possibilities of today excite us all!
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Love and be love…when I realized that simple fact – that my essence IS LOVE, and that all I have to give IS LOVE, then the flow was created…LOVE IS
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I think all humans have a need to connect – to have relationships with others. It may be chemical or it may be something more spiritual, but we all seem to want to belong and to be involved with others and their lives.
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A beautiful and thoughtful post my BFF, Nancy –
I think when you love yourself and the moment you are in – that is true love.
A partner is icing on the cake but you h ave to bake the cake first.
I am so content now without a partner that sometimes I think I have lost my mind.
In truth, I have found it. In family and friends and even casual relationships. When You don't look for it, it somehow just arrives.
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I'm thinking of putting up a Moxon HEX beam for maybe 10, 12 ,& 15 meters. Who makes the best Moxon HEX Beam kit for a good price and what do you get? What other materials are necessary to make the beam kit work?
I'm thinking of putting up a Moxon HEX beam for maybe 10, 12 ,& 15 meters. Who makes the best Moxon HEX Beam kit for a good price and what do you get? What other materials are necessary to make the beam kit work?
Similar in that they're compact two element beams...but some differences that can best be described by someone with more technical knowledge than I.
The Moxon will give you slightly more gain and possibly better f/b than the Hex.
I built a 10 meter Moxon two months ago and have since worked over 50 DXCCs with it at 33' above ground.
I also have a 6 meter Traffie Hex Beam and I used to use it for 6m roving and portable operation when I lived in W6 land. Also a very good antenna but now I use a 5 element yagi for 6m stuff so the antenna is down for now.
I strongly urge you to check out the Hex beam Yahoo group as well as the Moxon Project website; both are chock full of info that will help you decide. Google these to find them easily; I don't have the links handy.
FYI, the Moxon is generally a single-band beam although multi band versions have been built with success.
The Hex beams can be either single of multi-band and also offer a lot of bang for the buck. I think the K4EIO (not sure if that's the correct call) versions are the least expensive kits, IIRC.
DXEngineering ones are a bit pricey but as with all of their stuff---superb quality, IMO.
If you only operate one or two bands like me I'd suggest a Moxon; they're easy to build with fiberglass fishing poles, plastic cutting boards, wire and the like.
Either way you go you'll be pleased! Both are compact, lightweight and offer single coax feeds at 50 ohms. Somewhat stealthier than usual big arrays, too.
Have fun in your quest and let us know what you go with.
You can see a picture of my DIY Moxon on my QRZ page, if interested.
73, Jeff (a big fan of both types of these great wire beams!)
In my opinion. they are both wonderful "compromise" antennas that are easy to install and use.
I haven't seen many multi-band Moxons (they were originally designed to be single-band antennas) but the Hex Beam lends itself to multi-banding well, and there are several 5-band designs and fully manufactured products out there.
Since they don't have real "booms" and can be built of fairly small diameter materials, they have little wind loading and can be turned by a pretty small, light-duty rotator. Although this isn't always the case, either can be built with "wire" elements and lightweight spreaders made from various insulating materials including PVC, ABS, fibreglas, bamboo, etc.
After using a building a few, I'd probably opt for a Moxon single-bander but I'd opt for a Hex multi-bander.
After building one 5-band Hex from a kit of parts, I think next time I'd just buy the factory prefabricated Traffie HX5Bi Hexbeam (commercial product), as it is much easier! But that's just me.
If you want to operate the 3 adjacent bands mentioned in the first post, I would choose the Hexbeam. The Moxon has problems with multiple bands that are close in frequency.
Just an update on WB2WIK's comment: the alternative Hexbeam suppliers in the USA - K4KIO, DXE - now supply their beams pre-assembled (within shipping limits), rather than as kits.
Steve G3TXQ
Sorry I failed to notice that you specified 10-12-15 meters in your initial post; thus I wholeheartedly concur with Steve's comments as well.
A Hex (either the Classic or Broadband version) should well suffice and be easy to erect.
Nonetheless, you may find the Moxon Project website thoroughly intriguing as I did---check out some of the many photos of various installations---if you ever want to make a simple but great monobander... Les Moxon was a tad ahead of his time, IMO.
73, Jeff
Thanks to all. I've decided to go with the HEX-beam, if I can find one for a good price. If I decide that a mono band antenna on 15 meters might be all I really need then I will go with the Moxon.
This is mine for 20,15 and 10 metres....as has been said the elements are located too close too each other to work properly when you introduce the WARC bands too.
As you can see I run three seperate feeds as I'm a bit of a knuckle dragger and couldn't get it working from a single feed like the Hex beam does.
My other main reason for staying with the Moxon after its excellent front to back performance is it's skeletal two dimensional profile which attracts less admiring glances from neighbouring properties than the short lived 10 metre quad did or a Hex most likely would.
Obviously beauty is in the eye of the beholder here.
hi steve,Originally Posted by G7vqe
did you make test about F/B ratio in all three bands?
Last winter i used 2 band moxon ( 40/30 meters) but the inner rectangle ( 30 meters band) didn't works as the 40 meter rectangle, two drivers was feed togheter by 60 cm coaxial 75 ohms.
F/B ratio on low angle signals ( VK land, ja, zl and W6 long path) was about 25 (and more) on 40 , but not more then 10 db on 30.
After the summer hailstorms two fishing rods were broken, and i decidet to fix the moxon by removing the inner rectangle.
Surprise: the antenna was more short resonance ( 7,200 mhz).
I add about 60 cm both elements.
Well, the moxon works great again.
I tried to analyze the antenna and the fb is actually low, but it improves if you add a director (4% short then diver) to reach the performance of Moxon single band, and a dual band should have one more element on the higher frequency.
All this on paper, you should try on the field.
maybe next summer.
What do you think ? (Aside from my bad English)


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Step 1: What you need
-Soda can
-Piezoelectric buzzer, mine is quite large and came from a telephone ringer
-Some wire, both stranded type (if your leads from the piezo element aren't long enough) and safety wire (if you want a super ghetto attachment system like me)
Step 2: Connect the leads
Now, connect the black lead to the part of the 1/4" phono jack that is like a ring; the ground. Next connect the red one on to the part that connects to the J looking thing; the positive.
You should end up with something looking like this \/
Step 3: Removing the "lid" off the can.
The way I did it was to sand lip on the drinking side on a belt sander until the "lid" relased. If you don't have a belt sander, well, figure something out, it's not to hard.
Step 4: Cut a hole in the "lid"
I traced out my buzzer first, then started a cut with a dremel, but then I got lazy and just ripped it from there (beast, I know). I of course cleaned up the jagged rip marks with a sanding bit.
Then test fit! Cool, it fits!
Step 5: Put a hole in it.
Then just put the jack through, and screw on the nut, good and tight!
Using a plastic membrane (as plastic bag, why not?) in place of the can top with the piezo glued on (without plastic shield) could be another experience to make... with large and thin piezos.
Thanks a lot, you give me many ideas...


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Updates from Glenbrook:
- The next session of Glenbrook's Payments Boot Camp will be held Dec 9-10 in Palo Alto, CA. Join us!
- Glenbrook's Bitcoin: Basics and Beyond Workshop will be held Nov 19 in New York City
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Quite a few books and studies recently have touted the power of incremental change. Small actions can have a huge impact on long-term business growth.
The appropriate degree of change needed for innovating within organizations is, in general, a 45-degree change, consistent but not too radical. That tends to be more effective than a 5-degree change (purely incremental) or a 90-degree change (radical).
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