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[Alupinu]

*UPDATE*
Fanglewood has been finally uploaded to the vault! But wait for v1.02 before downloading, should be up very soon. Maximus E-mailed me and wrote the reason the vault was down because of a system issue and some content got stuck. Everything is fixed now and it’s back to business as usual at the vault. Great news!  

You can find Fanglewood here at the Vault.
nwvault.ign.com/View.php

Alupinu

[kamal_]

If I'd realized I'd have bugged Rolo Kipp. He posted some stuff I had stuck in FTP. I'll vote when I get home.

[Alupinu]

v1.02 is now ready for download on the vault!

[Omega27]

Yay more updates

[Alupinu]

Hey would this be considered *Troll* voting and if yes is there anything I can do about it? He didn’t even play the game and he is giving me a “1”.
Check this out...
nwvault.ign.com/View.php

[Arkalezth]

Darant is nuts. I've seen him comment on many modules, and I never know what he's going to come up with next time. In the case of Fanglewood, I'm not even sure of what he's talking about. Sometimes (only sometimes) he makes more normal comments so I wouldn't say he's a troll... at least not all the time. Perhaps he's a goblin or something.

I think the highest and lower votes don't count, so it shouldn't make a difference in the score.

BTW, it looks like my Vault's account has got screwed up... again.

[Tchos]

I've seen his reviews before. He has a very, very particular preference in what he likes to play, and slams anything that's not like that.

Judging from his rant, it sounds like he ragequit because he mistakenly walked up to the exploding barrel and tried to open it, instead of shooting it from a distance to help kill the pirates. Perhaps he didn't notice that the cursor indicated that the default action for the barrel was to attack it, not open it, and he misinterpreted it as a "trapped barrel" designed to kill the players.

Personally, I appreciated those barrels as a bonus bit of strategy, letting me use the environment in the fight.

[Lugaid of the Red Stripes]

Outlier votes (bottom 10% and top 10%) don't get counted, so a single 1 vote doesn't hurt you much more than a 8 or 9 would.

[kamal_]

Darant seems to go out of his way to downvote highly rated modules, so consider it a badge of honor. Either that or as tchos said, he has a very, very narrow range of what he likes, and hates anything outside that. He gave me a bad score and quit because you play evil.

google search shows...

A Fairy Tale: (by Iveforgotmypassword aka Tsongo) (scored 9.58)
Posted by darant at 2011-03-16 00:38:36 Voted 5.00 on 03/14/11
Tsongo, you get 1000xp for agreeing to escort the prisoner without doing anything in game--instantly levelling to 2. That's a gamebreaker for me, so I voted accordingly. I did vote rather than abstain after playing only five minutes because judging by some of the other votes, people are giving this a 10 vote well before playing the whole module--so that's my balance. i don't see you complaining about their votes.

Risen Hero by Shaughn78 (9.67 score)
Posted by darant at 2011-09-28 03:48:47 Voted 5.00 on 09/28/11
This one was kind of hopeless--arcade style. You spent endless hours fighting ridiculously repetitive respawning enemies--having to rest endlessly just to survive, which respawns them more. Then you bypass this to fight an enemy that kills a party of four with ease. Yikes, the endless arcade-style modules have finally drained the life out of me for this NWN2. It's a shame, and no wonder this game has failed. You may think this is harsh criticism, but it's true for me.

Path of Evil (9.4 score)
Posted by darant at 2011-03-14 18:56:22 Voted 6.00 on 03/14/11
Pretty good, an extraordinary amount of work put into this submission--but, once the mission was to murder an entire family I thought: why would I want to be a cold-blooded murderer, even in avatar form. For me that was enough and I quit. D&D is for heroes. A little bad/evil is interesting, but this lost my interest--so here's my vote based on my play experience.

Legacy of White Plume Mountain: by Wyrin (9.52 score)
Posted by darant at 2010-12-13 17:52:47 Voted 6.00
I enjoyed quite a few hours of this grand creation--which I know much great work was put into--but I've quit for now and I doubt I'll play anymore. There's almost no roleplaying, I'm bored of the endless hack & slash the far too numerous overland encounters offer, and they spawn so numerous that it's impossible to evade them. Other than that, the areas aren't very fleshed out. Most of them transition directly into a cave with no outside area to scout--it loses the adventure quality that way. And even Soubar offers nearly no interaction. On a positive note--and I commend you for there are many--being able to create your own party and freely roam the map is cool. The lava pools deep underground in one of the first map areas is probably the coolest visual adventure area I've ever played.

Harp and Chrysanthemum by Maerduin (9.65, and considered one of the top nwn2 modules ever)
Posted by darant at 2011-09-11 14:52:32 Voted 8.00 on 09/11/11
I tried this again after playing briefly and quitting years ago, only to find the same flaws--which forced me out again. While it's very well done I noticed nothing spectacular, except for the premise of battling the Zhents of course! There are two problems I have with the module, which clearly puts me in the minority--nonetheless I'll offer my synopsis. .....

Modifié par kamal_, 06 novembre 2012 - 11:50 .

[kamal_]

As for me, I missed the explosive barrels and got myself killed. Then I laughed at my stupidity for not noticing them and said "yay, meaningful detail!"

[Tchos]

I see a pattern in those comments, and I hate when people specifically vote to attempt to bring the average to what they personally think it deserves.  That's attempting to exploit the system, rather than voting the actual number they think it deserves.  It's an attempt to have one's own vote count for more than the single vote it's meant to be, and that admission alone should be grounds to strike the vote from the record.

Voting higher than one's actual opinion in order to counteract bad votes is also an exploit, and I don't endorse that either.

[Alupinu]

Thanks everybody for your support on this matter.

@kamal, thanks for the examples, after reading through them it’s obvious the guy is nothing but a ****head.


@Ark, no he worst then goblin, I’m thinking Ogre.

@password, I’m pretty sure this guy takes medication maybe Prozac.
 
@LRS, thanks but I was really hoping to save that for a more legit score and not obvious slander. 
 
@Tchos, thanks again friend for setting the record straight over on my pages. Your help is always appreciated.
 
As for my page I have decided not to even acknowledge his comment. If darant is the type of person I think he is then that will ****** him off more than anything.
I do gracefully except The Badge of Honor for this unforeseen achievement. So maybe we should start a little club and we can all wear patched jackets.

Modifié par Alupinu, 06 novembre 2012 - 09:52 .

[Arkalezth]

Iveforgotmypassword wrote...

He voted me down having just started because I'd levelled him up from one to two after 5 minutes play ( just before the adventure really started ) and didn't warn him.

HOW DARE YOU!!! Levelling people up like that, and no warning!

I don't know if it was darant or someone else, but didn't you also once have a complaint about some elves' eyebrows?

IIRC, darant's gripe with with H&C was that some of the companions (heavily involved in the story) were forced on the player. Looking at some of his other "reviews", that one almost seems sensible and legitimate.

[PJ156]

 
As for my page I have decided not to even acknowledge his comment. If darant is the type of person I think he is then that will ****** him off more than anything.

You should write what you think, what's he going to do? lower his vote

I have had comments from Darant in the past and he has a thread, nay a consistency to his dislikes. He gives tens occasionaly ... for Search for the temple of the Golden Spire.

"Spectacular. A must play for any true, classic D&D fan. I honestly can say that this is the best module I've ever played for Neverwinter 2. Professional through and through. The programming and adventure layout are excellent and the graphics are stunning. A simple, free and open adventure unlike the overly complicated, fantasy-world-from-scratch offerings too prevalent in the vault. Apparently conversions are best, or those modelled like the original pen & paper adventures. If there were twenty submissions like this, there'd be no problem sustaining our wonderful D&D world."

Personally he/she is one of the voters I fear but despite this I much prefer the vault to the Nexus in this respect. I would rather hear someones bad opinion and learn from it that a faceless endorsement with no text. We spend many months of our lives building these. the least someone can do is write a paragraph or two and vote.

Sorry to hear about this though, it is very much undeserved.

PJ

[Dorateen]

Alas, poor Darant. He reviewed Edinmoor favorably.

But from everything I have read, Alupinu, Fanglewood does appear to be an outstanding campaign.

Harumph!

[kamal_]

Pj, not sure if you're aware because it's not obvious, but a Nexus entry automatically creates a forum thread so people can post comments. It's just that an endorse doesn't require a comment, where a vote does. The forum thread is reachable directly from the Nexus entry, it's one of the tabs under the entry's pics. I'd rather get the comments here because I'm here more, but the thread for my mod is 3-4 pages over there. The forum also sens you a daily post update if there are new posts in it.

[PJ156]

Lol, I guess no one wants to talk about my mods ...

I did see there was a discussion page but I do not get much traffic there and a very much lower download rate. perhaps there are things i can do to promote myself but at the meoment I am waiting for the campaign to be finished. I will put that in both locations.

Thanks for the promt though Kamal_

PJ

[kamal_]

Reading PJ's comment, it sounds like Tchos is right, darant has a very narrow range of what he likes, very traditional style modules with full party creation/control, and anything else gets downvoted.

I say, "Viva la difference of module styles!"

[Alupinu]

Iveforgotmypassword wrote...

Basically there are some people on the vault that think they know better than everybody else and that their opinion is the one that matters so if they don't like something they try to damage it...

Yes, those are called control freaks, self-centered control freaks. Somebody who think the world’s a stage and their the star.

Dorateen wrote...

But from everything I have read, Alupinu, Fanglewood does appear to be an outstanding campaign.

Harumph! 

Thank you Dorateen always appreciated.

PJ156 wrote...

Lol, I guess no one wants to talk about my mods ...

PJ

Try not to feel too bad Pj, nobody talks about my mods over there either.  

kamal_ wrote...

I say, "Viva la difference of module styles!"

That’s right! Socialist mod building will not be tolerated.   alupinu

[Tchos]

Alupinu wrote...
Try not to feel too bad Pj, nobody talks about my mods over there either.  

Hey, what do you mean?  You have 3 pages of comments there for Fanglewood.

kamal_ wrote...
I say, "Viva la difference of module styles!"

Hear, hear!

[bealzebub]

After reading all this, I had to see if he played Baltron's Beacon. Surprise, he gave me an 8.5.
So if any of you want some pointers on proper .mod building, just drop me a line