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The way text is organized in the game, the closest the exporter could reasonably get is a "p-string", the game's internal identifier for text that gets stored in a hash table. They did this so long text could be represented with short IDs regardless of what language the client was set to use.

In short, there's not really any conventional way for Sentinel+ to resolve these ID strings into their corresponding English display names.

Worse comes to worse, you could always copy the internal name into the City of Data URL to see what it is: http://tomax.cohtitan.com/data/power..._the_Gambler_A

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Come to think of it, you could probably wget along with your grep and automate the whole thing that way.


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The first rule of cryptography:

Delete the old EXE and download the new one.

Plus, it already exports your Vault storage, even when the window isn't open.

The utility explicitly and intentionally ignores Inherent (unslottable) and Temporary Powers. The prestige sprints are in the exports, though.

Unfortunately, both of those are information that the server sends only when you request it. There's no way to dump them all at once.

Regarding Mac users: you'll need to run the game in a Windows environment to export information. You can do this with Parallels Desktop if you feel like being fancy, but the game can also be run in self-contained virtual machines since the graphics are done in OpenGL. You might consider Oracle VM VirtualBox or VMware Workstation for this task, though I'm not an expert on what works best. I'll have more information before it's time to export everyone.

Failing all else, find someone you trust who runs Windows and have them log into your account. It may be a violation of the terms of service, but that really means beans nowadays.

He means tartan, obviously.

Damage can be a confusing mechanic because of how it's handled by the game. Let's take a brief moment to review the fundamentals of the powers system.

All entities in the game (in this case, we're talking about player and non-player characters) have several values associated with them. These values are called "attributes," and there's a significant number of them. Every distinct component of an entity fits into an attribute: Endurance, Defense types, Influence, Mez types, Regeneration, etc. If there's a number associated with an entity, there's an attribute to hold that number.

Attributes themselves have a number of modification values associated with them, which the devs gave the non-descriptive name of "aspects." These include the direct values, resistances and strengths of the attributes, to name a few. The "direct value" includes anything with a quantity, such as Endurance, XP, Influence and status effects. Resistance and strength, applied to an attribute, affects all modifications of any aspects of that attribute on the target. More on that in a bit.

Damage types are special case attributes in that the "direct value" for all of them map to the same thing: Hit Points. Subtracting 5 from Smashing Damage is exactly the same as subtracting 5 from Fire Damage. That is, they both result in a loss of 5 HP by the target. However, each damage type attribute still retains its strength and resistance aspects, meaning it's possible to resist, as an example, 50% Smashing Damage while resisting 0% Fire Damage.

As I mentioned a couple paragraphs back, resistance and strength on attributes apply to all attempted adjustments to any aspects of those attributes. In the case of Smashing Damage, for instance, 50% resistance will halve the amount of HP depleted, as well as halve all debuffs to resistance and/or strength for that damage type. For this reason, almost all "buff" effects are set to be irresistible: they will apply at their full strength regardless of the target's resistances. However, "debuffs" can be resisted.

In the case of -Damage, it's actually a compound effect. Reducing the damage of the target is actually an adjustment of the strength aspects for all 8 damage type attributes of the entity. The 8, for reference, are Smashing, Lethal, Fire, Cold, Energy, Negative Energy, Psionic and Toxic. Most enemies have some form of resistance to some of those, meaning the portion of the -Damage effects that attempt to adjust them will be resisted accordingly.

In the same way, -Resistance attempts to adjust the resistance aspects for all 8 damage type attributes, and likewise can be resisted.

To answer an earlier question: yes, applying -Resistance first WILL increase the effectiveness of a subsequent -Damage.