ultima 8 : pagan help
J Thompson
hello.
i need some basic help with ultima 8 : pagan, on the pc. my main problem is
trying to figure out how to re-size the inventory because the default is far
to small and you cant see whats in your bag :(
also, how do i start off. i have been to see the execution and been to town
where somebody told me to go and see a wizard of some sort in the town of
tembrea, but i cant find this town.
can you please email me help cause its a good game, its just a bit annoying
at the min for me :(
Anthony Hughes
I am pretty sure that Tenebrae is the *only* town in the game, i.e. that
city at the end of the pier you witness the execution on is Tenebrae.
As for resizing the inventory bag, I don't know of anyway to do that.
A. X. Hughes
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Andy Sells
In article <888148596.19077.0...@news.demon.co.uk>, J
Thompson <J...@wizzzard.demon.co.uk> writes
>hello.
>
>i need some basic help with ultima 8 : pagan, on the pc. my main problem is
>trying to figure out how to re-size the inventory because the default is far
>to small and you cant see whats in your bag :(
>
As far as I know you can't, but what you can do is put items into bags
and then arrange the bags in your backpack.
>also, how do i start off. i have been to see the execution and been to town
>where somebody told me to go and see a wizard of some sort in the town of
>tembrea, but i cant find this town.
>
If I remember correctly the first couple of things you do are 1) go and
talk to the bloke in the cells under the palace (I found the steps hard
to see so I didn't manage to do this until I'd nearly finished the game.
2) go to the caves in the northeast corner and follow the route until
you come out at a hidden valley at the other side. This means jumping
across the water via the stepping stones, solving the lever puzzle, and
killing lots of zombies.
>can you please email me help cause its a good game, its just a bit annoying
>at the min for me :(
>
>ja...@wizzzard.demon.co.uk
>
>
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Paul Francis Gilbert
"J Thompson" <J...@wizzzard.demon.co.uk> writes:
>hello.
>i need some basic help with ultima 8 : pagan, on the pc. my main problem is
>trying to figure out how to re-size the inventory because the default is far
>to small and you cant see whats in your bag :(
>also, how do i start off. i have been to see the execution and been to town
>where somebody told me to go and see a wizard of some sort in the town of
>tembrea, but i cant find this town.
>can you please email me help cause its a good game, its just a bit annoying
>at the min for me :(
You can't resize your bags I'm afraid. Tenabrae is the town you're in, and
it's the only town in Pagan. The wizard mentioned by the Librarian lives on
the Plateau to the north. You need to head north from the north town exit,
go through a bunch of caves, and you'll reach the pleateau.
BTW: I'd STRONGLY recommend you download & install the patch if you haven't
already done so (and if your Ultima 8 game doesn't include it already - I
think the CD re-release had it, as well as the speechpak), since patching the
game deletes any savegames you have. With it installed, you can select a
destination for a jump by clicking both the left & right mouse buttons
together, which is very handy for navigating the caves.
One final thing, before you head up to the Plateau, go to the top of the
castle, and look for a grey square that will levitate a bit when you approach
it. This is a teleport pad (you'll find out how it works later, but it'll
save you a lot of trouble if you 'activate' it before you leave town).
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Gobbly
Hmm, one more thing, is there an automap in this game? Doesn't mention anything
about one in my manual and thought it was kinda strange not to have a map in an
RPG.
Cheers,
Andrew
1-0 to the Arsenal !!!
Rocker
I don't think there is one, not that I recall. Has been kinda long ago.
It isn't so strange really, since it isn't really a RPG. Even Origin
admit it is very much of a RPG, maybe more of a action/adventure/arcade
with a little RPG element. But dispite the name, general concensus it
isn't a RPG.
B. Baal
Unfortunately, there is no map in U8. You're best to get out that old pen
and paper...or download the maps off the net somewhere. Indeed, it was
strange to not have a map in this so called "RPG". Even Zelda for the NES
had a map! But Ultima 8 was nevertheless really fun to play (imho).
-b.
Gobbly wrote in message <19980303222...@ladder02.news.aol.com>...
Patrick Mcginley
B. Baal (nos...@spam.com) scribbled something about:
: Unfortunately, there is no map in U8. You're best to get out that old pen
: and paper...or download the maps off the net somewhere. Indeed, it was
: strange to not have a map in this so called "RPG". Even Zelda for the NES
: had a map! But Ultima 8 was nevertheless really fun to play (imho).
: -b.
I think the reason there isn't a map is because the original game >came<
with a map that pretty much showed everything. There is probably a .pdf
map on the cd that came with the game, else you can download the game map
from various sites on the web.
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B. Baal
Patrick Mcginley wrote in message <6eceo2$d...@newsops.execpc.com>...
Patrick, your reason is entirely false. Have you played Ultima 8? The
original cloth map that came with the game is entirely useless. As well,
there is no .pdf file on the original CD that has a map, other than the
Ultima Collection (and perhaps the classic CD). Even Ultima 7 had both an
in-game map and a cloth/paper map!
Otherwise, Prima's Ultima Collection has pretty good screen layouts of the
U8....but nothing beats drawing of one's own maps.
-b.
Patrick Mcginley
B. Baal (nos...@spam.com) scribbled something about:
: Patrick Mcginley wrote in message <6eceo2$d...@newsops.execpc.com>...
: >
: >I think the reason there isn't a map is because the original game >came<
: >with a map that pretty much showed everything. There is probably a .pdf
: >map on the cd that came with the game, else you can download the game map
: >from various sites on the web.
: >
Look, this is silly. He asked why there wasn't a map with U8, I said there
was. As to it's utility, that wasn't the point. (And yes, I have played
U8, the day it came out, without the patch. I even made it to the end
where the game froze on me (fixed in the patched version) and raged
against the computer the entire time.)
I suppose there wasn't an ingame map because the world was so small. Btw:
Nothing does beat ones own maps, because there is something concrete about
them once you finish the game.
: Patrick, your reason is entirely false. Have you played Ultima 8? The