Johnn Four
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Joined: 12 Jan 2004 |
 Posted: Wednesday, 10 March 2004 07:15PM |
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Meet the masterminds behind the upcoming Community Expansion Pack for Neverwinter Nights. Learn why the project got started, who is a secret geneticist in disguise, and what the team hopes you'll use the expansion pack for. The CEP is an upcoming, community created, simple download that contains a ton of high-quality, custom content for Neverwinter Nights. For more information and screenshots, check the CEP information page.
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elf8bliss
Game Owner
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NWN: SoU
NWN 2
Joined: 11 Jun 2003
From: LA, CA |
Posted: Wednesday, 10 March 2004 08:02PM |
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I was wondering if the CEP package will have the creature build, the centuar. One of my favorite races in the AD&D world! If not, I'm hoping someone would create this centaur race as a creature & race to play in NWN. Just my wishlist,thanks CEP for everything so far! |
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Squidget
Game Owner
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NWN: SoU
NWN: HotU
Jade Empire:SE
Joined: 04 Apr 2003
From: Here. |
Posted: Wednesday, 10 March 2004 09:34PM |
Quote: Posted 03/10/04 20:02:01 (GMT) by elf8bliss
I was wondering if the CEP package will have the creature build, the centuar. One of my favorite races in the AD&D world! If not, I'm hoping someone would create this centaur race as a creature & race to play in NWN. Just my wishlist,thanks CEP for everything so far!
A quick look through the CEP inventory release shows that the answer is no. The only Centaur on the Vault did not meet quality requirements.
DLA has this in the works, however.
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Mzael
Game Owner
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NWN: SoU
NWN: HotU
Joined: 26 Feb 2004 |
Posted: Wednesday, 10 March 2004 10:16PM |
Ok, great work, great team, we know this, but not released yet...two weeks from 25th Feb...so let's go boys...RELEASE THE CEP, our modules waiting!!!!!  |
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Jay Watamaniuk
Community Manager
Joined: 19 Nov 2001
From: Edmonton, Alberta |
Posted: Thursday, 11 March 2004 12:11AM |
<Whip crack> You heard the man! Back to work CEP team!
I think we are all looking forward to getting this monkey out the door.  |
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Techen
Game Owner
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NWN: SoU
NWN: HotU
Joined: 22 Oct 2001
From: Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada |
Posted: Thursday, 11 March 2004 12:34AM |
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'grin' Get to work!!!! or NO SOUP FOR YOU! |
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Silverti
Game Owner
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NWN: SoU
NWN: HotU
NWN 2
Joined: 21 Jun 2002 |
Posted: Thursday, 11 March 2004 03:13AM |
What are the dangers of installing this on a large server? Specifically, did you use custom tags so importing the items dont over write a lot of my custom items
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The WolF
Game Owner
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NWN: SoU
NWN: HotU
SW: KotOR Xbox
SW: KotOR PC
Joined: 02 May 2002
From: Springfield, IL |
Posted: Thursday, 11 March 2004 04:19AM |
Having looked through the various pdf's (why pdf instead of .rtf?), even I am thinking about starting a mod or two. Just what I need, more reasons to have NWN up and running 24/7! 
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Phyte
Game Owner
NWN
NWN: SoU
NWN: HotU
Joined: 10 Feb 2004 |
Posted: Thursday, 11 March 2004 10:10AM |
Well met.
Even the very greatest stumble sometimes. The truly great get back up and fly further, and faster than ever before. Having beautifully crafted the anticipation of spending hours with the games called 'Neverwinter Nights', Shadows of Unrentide', and 'Hordes of the Underdark', you may have thought that something called 'Community Expansion Pack' evokes the same wide eyed wonder of what will be. Not really, a tad out of character. A DM may even warn you over the use of such ooc language in their game.
It is not too late to see that you might change the name of the pack to something in more keeping with the true wonder of Neverwinter. Simply, truthfully, say that this was the project name (as it is), and at it nears compeletion and release, start buidling anticipation by calling the expansion 'Dragon Wings of Neverdreams', with the same graphic font rendition of the name as the other packs we cherish.
Blessings.
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Squidget
Game Owner
NWN
NWN: SoU
NWN: HotU
Jade Empire:SE
Joined: 04 Apr 2003
From: Here. |
Posted: Thursday, 11 March 2004 09:23PM |
Quote: Posted 03/11/04 03:13:39 (GMT) by Silverti
What are the dangers of installing this on a large server? Specifically, did you use custom tags so importing the items dont over write a lot of my custom items
One of the CEP's primary rules is "Do No Harm." I doubt there will be any problems.
As I recall, the items are added to the palette automagically when you install the hakpak. The resrefs are most likely prefixed with "CEP_*" or some such, so there really are no worries about importing.
If you're already using a hakpak, that may be another matter entirely. You would probably have to do a few things to make sure your hakpak and the CEP play nice together.
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Squidget
Game Owner
NWN
NWN: SoU
NWN: HotU
Jade Empire:SE
Joined: 04 Apr 2003
From: Here. |
Posted: Thursday, 11 March 2004 09:25PM |
Quote: Posted 03/11/04 10:10:59 (GMT) by Phyte
Well met.
Even the very greatest stumble sometimes. The truly great get back up and fly further, and faster than ever before. Having beautifully crafted the anticipation of spending hours with the games called 'Neverwinter Nights', Shadows of Unrentide', and 'Hordes of the Underdark', you may have thought that something called 'Community Expansion Pack' evokes the same wide eyed wonder of what will be. Not really, a tad out of character. A DM may even warn you over the use of such ooc language in their game.
It is not too late to see that you might change the name of the pack to something in more keeping with the true wonder of Neverwinter. Simply, truthfully, say that this was the project name (as it is), and at it nears compeletion and release, start buidling anticipation by calling the expansion 'Dragon Wings of Neverdreams', with the same graphic font rendition of the name as the other packs we cherish.
Blessings.
You are aware that this is not a Bioware project, right? The reason it is called the Community Expansion Pack is that it was made entirely by the NWN community. Bioware has only promoted it as it nears release.
Regardless, it is certainly too late to change the name at this stage in development.
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WraithCaller
Game Owner
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NWN: SoU
NWN: HotU
Joined: 23 Aug 2003
From: the deepest, darkest shadows |
Posted: Thursday, 11 March 2004 10:03PM |
A quick question about weapons. It says in the pdf file or whatever that the dragonclaw staff is in Lisa's SoU blah blah. Does this mean that this is the torch version or the staff version that's useable as an acctual weapon. forgive me if the answer is blatalanty in front of my face.
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Squidget
Game Owner
NWN
NWN: SoU
NWN: HotU
Jade Empire:SE
Joined: 04 Apr 2003
From: Here. |
Posted: Friday, 12 March 2004 12:56AM |
Quote: Posted 03/11/04 22:03:55 (GMT) by WraithCaller
A quick question about weapons. It says in the pdf file or whatever that the dragonclaw staff is in Lisa's SoU blah blah. Does this mean that this is the torch version or the staff version that's useable as an acctual weapon. forgive me if the answer is blatalanty in front of my face.
If I recall correctly, there are two versions of that staff in Lisa's hak. The torch version and the mage staff version. The CEP probably includes both. I don't know for sure though.
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Sjoak
Game Owner
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NWN: SoU
NWN: HotU
Joined: 15 Dec 2002 |
Posted: Friday, 12 March 2004 10:09PM |
What would be the best approach to update your PW with the CEP?
As there is likely to be an overlap in content between CEP and the old haks (some merged from other haks) it might be a good idea to clean the haks up and create new hakpacks for the players.
Perhaps a tool that looks through the current haks and compares them with CEP and deletes duplicate content? |
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Chad_Nightshade_Blodgett
Game Owner
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NWN: SoU
NWN: HotU
SW: KotOR PC
NWN 2: SoZ
Mass Effect PC
Joined: 20 May 2003 |
Posted: Saturday, 13 March 2004 12:05AM |
hey all, first off id like to say this looks like it will be an awsome release and a big thanks goes out to all who took the time to create the content, and to the CEP team for taking all the peices and making sure they "play nice together".
heres my question. with the download be released as just a plain .hak or will it be in self installer form?
the reason i ask is because ive seen that the DL is intended for player created mods. but when i find items or armor or things i like, i like to extract those items from the haks and put them in my override folder so that i can use them in the OC's as well. so im wondering if i will be able to put pieces and parts of the DL into my override or maybe even the whole thing and it not mess up the OC's.
oh and im sure lots of people are wondering, can you give us a projected release date? even a general estimate would satisfy an untold many im sure |
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