[color:"orange"]1. A minor restoration potion gives you 50% health and 50% magic back. A restoration potion gives you 100% life and 100% magic. What does a Super Restoration potion due, other than the same thing a Mid sized one does?[/color]

Nothing else unfortunately! They sell for a bit, though! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

[color:"orange"]2. Given the above, why would one raise Alchemy above 3? I realize that Alchemy 5, let's you combine Augmenter, but why bother. Getting empty potion bottles seems quite easy.[/color]

Perhaps if you wanted larger Strength potions or such. But that's the joy of RPGs, make what you want!

[color:"orange"]3. In all the walk throughs I've read, they mention to kill all the monsters, before starting most of the quests. I did that over the weekend. At level 35, I had killed most of the monsters EVERYWHERE. Upon completing the quests, I was level 40 ish. If I hadn't killed all the monsters first, what would the level difference be? (see number 4 below for more detail).[/color]

I don't know what the difference is exactly, but at higher levels you gain more experience for completing quests and less experience for killing monsters, hence you can finish at a higher level by taking on the monsters first.

[color:"orange"]4. As an experiment, I completed the "Free Lanilor" quest at level 1. I received 100 experience. I reloaded the game, and killed enough monsters to get to level 2, THEN I freed Lanilor. This time I got 1500 experience. That's a 500 point difference. Does anyone have a formula, to determine the difference in experience, per level? I've read in several places, that monsters experience goes down, as you level up, but quest experience goes up, as you level up.[/color]

Correct, but again, I don't know the figures.

[color:"orange"]5. In Nericon's garden, there are pedestals for 3 statues. You have to talk to the middle statue (he looks like a wizard to me), to complete the quest. At the end of a the game, in the cut scene, a statue drops out of the sky. Has anyone noticed that the statue, looks like the missing statue in Nericon's garden?[/color]

Close. What happens when you open the Aleroth Catacombs at the start? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />

[color:"orange"]6. How do you start a new game? More to the point, when your new character arrives in Joram's basement, what do you do? I begin by looting all the houses, to include Mardaneus' house, before I activate the Freeze cut scene. After I do all my looting, I free Lanilor, so I can get the pyramids from him. After that, I jump outside and kill orcs, until around level 8. At level 8 or 9 ish, I make a major trip all the way to the merchant sector. I then loot all of those shops/houses. After that, I've set up a nice nest egg, for potion and equipment purchases. How about you? How do you start a game?[/color]

If I'm planning on looting, I empty the houses, and give George his drugs. Either way, then I clear out Aleroth of quests, including Zombie Jake I and II. Then the Catacombs are next on the list. Then I open the front gate...