Battlespire talk:Battlespire

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Contents 1 Upkeep in Battlespire section. 2 Running Battlespire on Windows XP 3 Redesign 4 Wrong title 5 Setting 6 Added link to Video Walkthrough

[edit] Upkeep in Battlespire section.

Um, I think the Battlespire pages really need a lot more attention then they are getting, just because it wasn't popular as Daggerfall doesn't mean it shouldn't be kept up to date! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Magnus (talk • contribs) on 30 May 2006.

[edit] Running Battlespire on Windows XP

I have been attempting to get all the Elder Scrolls games to run efficiently on my Windows XP machine with no special hardware, and thanks mainly to DOSbox have been rather successful, but Battlespire continues to taunt me. The autorun works normally thru WinXP when I insert the CD, it appears to install quickly and correctly, but upon exiting the installer, the autorun window still has "Play Battlespire" greyed out, and when running the batch file to launch the game thru DOSbox, I get a "Unable to install or detect VBE 2.0" message. I attempted to run the batch file with VDMsound also and got a somewhat different error referring to SVGA. I have tried both installation modes ("Bypass" the internal video drivers, and "Normal"). Supposedly DOSbox provides built-in VESA/SVGA VBE 2.0 support, but try telling that to Battlespire. If anybody out there can solve this mystery I will be very grateful. 65.24.75.149 20:24, 18 April 2008 (EDT)Kyle

See User:JKing's wonderful article at General:Playing DOS Installments under DOSBox. Works like a treat for me. –Rpeh^{•T•C•E•} 04:57, 20 August 2008 (EDT)

[edit] Redesign

I'm going to start revamping these pages over the next few weeks. Since I seem to be one of only about three people ever to have played the game I'm not going to start a full Project for it; instead I'm going to outline ideas on here. Since there are only 100 pages in the Battlespire namespace and 16 of those are Author subpages, this shouldn't be too big a deal but I thought I ought to mention it in case either of the other two players want to chip in ;). Currently I'm still playing the game but the plan so far is:

Character Generation

Outline the pros and cons of each race, class, and starting option.

Spells

New section to describe the spells available in the game.

Items

Describe the items and the materials from which they can be made.

Magic Items

Currently on the tips page, which isn't the best place for it. Describe the enchantments that items can have.

Bestiary

Revamp to be somewhat more like the later games rather than a big ol' table. Remove first person text. The images are rather small - replace with larger images uploaded to the wiki rather than taken from the old site.

Walkthrough

Currently written from a very peculiar perspective. Rewrite to be more like the "omniscient eye" of later games. Look at expanding the maps to include monster locations.

Books

Include locations. Weights? (All weigh 0.5lbs so maybe not important).

That's all I have for now. If anybody else has other ideas, post 'em here. –Rpeh^{•T•C•E•} 04:57, 20 August 2008 (EDT)

A few more:

Spells and spell-making

What the various magic effects to and how to use 'em.

Sigils

What effect the sigil amulets have when you use them

Maps

Recreate the maps with resampling to get them to a usable size - too much squinting at the moment.

–Rpeh^{•T•C•E•} 13:10, 23 August 2008 (EDT)

One more:

Characters

List of the named characters that help or hinder you during your quest. –Rpeh^{•T•C•E•} 14:06, 23 August 2008 (EDT)

A year on and nothing happened... The main reason is that my game crashes every time on level 5 so I haven't finished the game. I haven't forgotten Battlespire but it's on the back-burner for now. –rpeh^{•T•C•E•} 11:02, 8 August 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Wrong title

The boxart says "An Elder Scrolls Legend", not "The Elder Scrolls Legend". 76.252.2.218 22:12, 12 September 2008 (EDT)

Fixed it.--Albinobear43 06:14, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Setting

In what year an what era does daggerfall takes place?--Max Welrod 02:33, 8 August 2009 (UTC)

I've never played Daggerfall, but I'm under the impression it's 3E417. --Darth NANAME 03:29, 8 August 2009 (UTC)

That's the year of the Warp of the West. The date doesn't seem to be specified anywhere. It's not in the game's manual, and it isn't in any of the books. –rpeh^{•T•C•E•} 11:12, 8 August 2009 (UTC)

Actually, there's a rough estimate in The Doors of Oblivion, where it says that "the [Battlespire] was shattered some years ago in Jagar Tharn's time", which would place the events of Battlespire around 380-399. –rpeh^{•T•C•E•} 08:55, 11 August 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Added link to Video Walkthrough

After Redguard I thought it was time to do a Battlespire video playthrough. This is still very much in progress though! Added a link to the playlist in the video section.

--Grim The Reaper 13:42, 9 November 2009 (UTC)