Post by Athanasius in Islands of the Caliph comments

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Oh man... I died from one of these darn octopusses (or whatever the plural form of these things is) on Ikhlas Atoll. Instinctively I pressed ENTER (because that's what you normally do to get to the menu in such a case) - and found myself teleported back to Salam Island instantly. Now I'm not sure what exactly happened.
Even more important: I cannot say if something is missing from my inventory because I chosed "continue" instead of "load game". What exactly does it?

Thanks. The game is otherwise perfect, but this is a real pain to me.

edit: on returning on the Ikhlas Atoll I notice that the map I earlier compeltely explored has been erased... is that normal? Does "continue" eraze the place you've been prior to your death? What about discoveries, quests? I seem to still have the items I got on the Iklhlas Atoll...

edit2: Ok, the Inn chest seems to have been erased too... arrrgh!

edit3: more areas I've previously visited and throughly explored are erazed on the map. I really begin to lose all motivation to continue on.

edit4: Ok, it gets even stranger: I reloaded a savegame I made prior to my arrival on Akhlos Atoll (I regularly make such emergency savegames). When I now set foot on the said Island, the map is explored, as I left it earlier. How is that possible?

Schmidt Workshops2 years ago(-1)

I consider this a feature. The whole rogue-like genre has popularized the idea of when you die, you have to start from scratch. Old 80s RPGs were not quite rogue-likes, but some of them had pretty harsh punishments for dying. As an example, Wizardry would just leave your dead characters in the dungeon, and you would have to send another party down to retrieve them and their items if you wanted to resurrect them.
There are some NPCs who warn you about situations where you can even lose all your items and silver FYI. I wrote about it a bit here: https://schmidt-workshops.itch.io/islands-of-the-caliph/devlog/624343/prepare-fo...

Athanasius2 years ago (2 edits)

Hi and thanks for your reply. To the remark about the inn chest: In other cities, my stored items appear, only on Ikhlas Atoll it isn't the case.

Regarding the map: That question still is a mystery to me. Is the "punishment" for continue (instead of reloading) designed to eraze the explored parts of the map of the island where you died - while you still keep quests and items you collected there? Seems strange to me.

And even stranger seems the fact that when I reloaded an older (stored away as a zip) savegame from before I even had set foot on said island, all my prior explorations on this island were there. Are map informations not saved in the save files?

edit: I'm fine if some bucks and some more or less useful items disappear from my inventory. I hope no quest relevant ones?

Schmidt Workshops2 years ago(-1)

The map info is stored separately ... that sounds like a bug, so I will have a look at it.
I will also look at the chest on Ikhlas Atol ... it should have the same items.

Quest items should not be lost.