Eternal Protective Luck: bug, or feature?

[RedwoodElf]

If you have a witch put Protective Luck on someone, and then cackle out of combat repeatedly, just spamming the button, you can build up the duration indefinitely, until you have several minutes before it will wear off. Sure, you may get tired of the cackle sound effect, but you can spread PL around to every other party member, making them all MUCH harder to kill in every fight.

Is this working as intended, or just an oversight?

[Baldurs_Gate_2]

You can just enable a 10 min per cackle / chant buff of it in toybox.

[hilburnashua]

It's legal by the rules. So working as intended. But so annoying to manage that not many people will bother.

[MjKorz]

It's legal, but the price is your sanity.

[Cutlass Jack]

maniacal laugh. maniacal laugh.

[RedwoodElf]

Originally posted by Baldurs_Gate_2:

You can just enable a 10 min per cackle / chant buff of it in toybox.

Not if I want achievements, I can't.

[Drake]

Originally posted by RedwoodElf:

Originally posted by Baldurs_Gate_2:

You can just enable a 10 min per cackle / chant buff of it in toybox.

Not if I want achievements, I can't.

If that's the only thing stopping you, there is a way to re-enable achievements on a modded game.

[RedwoodElf]

Originally posted by Dryden:

You can set toybox to allow achievements too.

Except that, as the computer in "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" said, "would be cheating."

I don't do mods.

[Kaze]

Originally posted by RedwoodElf:

Originally posted by Dryden:

You can set toybox to allow achievements too.

Except that, as the computer in "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" said, "would be cheating."

I don't do mods.

I'm now telling the computer EXACTLY what it can do with a lifetime supply of chocolate!

[Naked Granny]

Originally posted by RedwoodElf:

Originally posted by Dryden:

You can set toybox to allow achievements too.

Except that, as the computer in "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" said, "would be cheating."

I don't do mods.

... Mods are just game design.

Your concept of cheating is malformed. If you feel that mods invalidate the purpose of achievements, that's your choice to make, but you shouldn't be whining about the consequences of your own personal purely arbitrary free choices.

[RedwoodElf]

Originally posted by Naked Granny:

... Mods are just game design.

Your concept of cheating is malformed. If you feel that mods invalidate the purpose of achievements, that's your choice to make, but you shouldn't be whining about the consequences of your own personal purely arbitrary free choices.

Steroids are just body design.

If you feel that using steroids invalidate sporting awards (yada, yada)

The point of an achievement is to accomplish it without cheesy edits.

[Baldurs_Gate_2]

Originally posted by RedwoodElf:

Originally posted by Naked Granny:

... Mods are just game design.

Your concept of cheating is malformed. If you feel that mods invalidate the purpose of achievements, that's your choice to make, but you shouldn't be whining about the consequences of your own personal purely arbitrary free choices.

Steroids are just body design.

If you feel that using steroids invalidate sporting awards (yada, yada)

The point of an achievement is to accomplish it without cheesy edits.

Ok, have fun pressing one button for 10 minutes. Makes no sense if you value your time, but it's your decision.

[Lucius]

Did you just compare a competition where the participants agree to a set of rules, to steam achievements in a single player game...?

[TOLYAN JIGAN]

Originally posted by Baldurs_Gate_2:

Originally posted by RedwoodElf:

Steroids are just body design.

If you feel that using steroids invalidate sporting awards (yada, yada)

The point of an achievement is to accomplish it without cheesy edits.

Ok, have fun pressing one button for 10 minutes. Makes no sense if you value your time, but it's your decision.

>Makes no sense if you value your time
>a person values his time
>plays games
Your sentence doesn't make any sense. There is no "IF, he either values his time or not, and it has nothing to do with pressing the button 10 minutes.

He is right, making the game easier because you have "your own vision of the game" is almost the same as cheating. Yes, it's a single-player game, but there are specific rules and achievements from the developers.
At least he can say that he finished vanilla game without mods, as the developers intended. And you can't.

[Moo]

I would think it's an oversight, as that doesn't appear to be the intended way the ability should be used. They could fix it by limiting cackle use to once per round.

[TOLYAN JIGAN]

Originally posted by jeem1972:

I would think it's an oversight, as that doesn't appear to be the intended way the ability should be used. They could fix it by limiting cackle use to once per round.

I think you can make 2 movement actions in one round and cackle is a movement action.