BBMorti wrote...
I actually had the impression the list had quite a few missing on it.. the list is shorter than I thought it would be.
I can understand why you'd have that impression- the list is surprisingly short. However, I believe it is correct or nearly so.
A couple years ago, a team of us did a comprehensive accounting by going through each and every post in the threads -including the ones on the old forums. That revealed a large number of BG1 and BGII only successes but a rather small number of full trilogy runs. Since then we've been periodically reviewing the threads and updating as new runs come through- with players invited to PM Corey if they've been left off.
Anatole became an exception because Corey -who updates the list- hadn't been around to observe your run. We had mentioned the apparent omission, but he had been awaiting a PM from you or, in the alternative, a mime with the relevant information from someone else. I think most of us were expecting you to PM Corey since he had requested a PM once or twice while you were around: that's likely why no one took the initiative of submitting on your behalf.
As for me, personally, I was among those expecting you to PM Corey. And after time elapsed, I didn't submit for you because I felt the need to double check that Anatole had, in fact, completed BG1 successfully prior to import (the conspicuous absence of a PM had made me wonder about that). A further complication here was that I vaguely recalled an Assassin with an A name and the same portrait that didn't quite make it through BG1- I needed to confirm that that wasn't Anatole before passing anything along to Corey.
As for the surprising dearth of full trilogy runs in general, that seems to be a function of playing trends on the one hand and the law of averages on the other. In the past, the majority of players started in the Chateau rather than Candlekeep- precluding full trilogy success. And while starting in Candlekeep is the norm these days, a significant portion of characters are never exported.
Of the characters that do attempt the full trilogy, the fatality rate is quite high- presumably because there are so many opportunities for a fatal mishap: even a miniscule probability of failure in individual encounters can lead to near certainty of failure across the many, many encounters of the trilogy. Over-confidence and fatigue in the long haul tends to push those mishap probabilities up and success probabilities down as you might imagine.
I did complete my run on Insane to be 100% correct.
Understood. I knew ToB had ben done on Insane, but hadn't noticed any mention of the difficulty setting in the early BG posts. And since the recorded difficulty has historically been based on the lowest rather than highest setting used during combat in the adventure, I indicated Core- presuming that the lack of explicit statement in the early posts implied that segment had been done on the default setting.
If you can confirm that BG1 was done on Insane, we'll happily make the adjustment.
I'm glad we have it all straightened out now!
Best,
A.
Btw. This all begs the question: When are you starting your next run BBMorti?
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