Post by 1StepCloser in Rise of the Soulmancer comments

That soft/hard crash thing.

Remind me, is there a specific point where this typically happens?

It only happens after completing an Outerworld level. Any kind of level: fight/trivia/puzzle etc.

docnutnut2 years ago

Same level, lose XP.

This helps, thanks. I'll investigate this soon and try to get an update out.

Then again, do you think I'll gain a level if my character has closer to a full level's worth of XP? Two of my characters just levelled and one has 1.3k/1.6k.

I could try leaving and see what happens.

Based on what you described before, exp creator is not working properly, so I don't expect them to level upon returning to Sanctum.

Then it's fortunate that I waited for this reply before doing anything :)

Whatever it is that you're fixing, adding, altering or MacGuyvering, I hope that expedition hammers are near the top of the list. I have three now and I am not very good at wielding a hammer with my feet.

1StepCloser2 years ago(+1)

They are.

I thought of a possible bonus you could implement for having multiple of the 'same' character in your party, Reds, Zins, Halo, Sora etc.

+10/25/50% XP/Cred/something in Outerworld earned depending on whether you have 2/3/4 of the character in your party.

0.84.9 Is up, an attempt to address the expedition build hammer issue.

docnutnut2 years ago (1 edit) (+1)

Yay! 84.9 is my new favourite number!

But why doesn't show in my feed that there is an update? All the other devs I follow have a feed post to go with their updates or new projects.

1StepCloser2 years ago(+1)

You can consider these as quiet updates. Once I feel I have enough changed I send out a post pertaining to all of the changes (usually consisting of a range of versions).

Gottit. Appreciated :)

I now have my Soul Summoner building in Expeditions and I see how everything works there. Very interesting.

It will take a few more days before I can really comment further on this. Maybe even longer. I feel like I need an equipment generator room for Sanctum and then about 6 months of idle time, logging on briefly twice a day, then I shall be ready to carry on.

Of course, I won't do this.

Something I always wonder with these games, but I stopped trying over a decade ago is seeing what will happen if I forward the device time by 12 hours. Is the game clock set by a server or by my local time? If my device can make it possible to cheat with a time skip, that is definitely something that you should make impossible.

1StepCloser1 year ago (2 edits)

However, it's practically impossible to make it impossible to cheat in a single player game for a determined individual.

The main question players must ask themselves is: Do I cheat and potentially ruin the meaning of progress?

Ultimately, this is up to the player, they are the owners of the game, and I'd like to leave it up to them.

Personally, I don't have a desire to cheat in single player games, because if I go down that road, I won't be playing the game for much longer as the meaning of progress would soon be lost to me, and one of the aspects I like most in games is a sense of progress.

Fair enough. I stopped cheating years ago. As you say, you don't keep playing a game long after you cheat on it.

But even on a single player game, there are forums like on itch, or other places online where people can show off how well they've done. It might be disheartening to someone seeing a player who has everything maxed out even though this is impossible without a time machine.

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I have been thinking.about another character for the Sanctum, one related to the Soul Creator. It would help players to both train lower level Souls and get further into the Outerworld.

I want to start each run at as high a level as possible, but I can't due to the level limitation of my characters. I understand that this is intentional, but it doesn't have to be the case 100% of the time.

You could have Soul Creator's apprentice/master/brother/wife etc. (lets call it Soul Master for now.)

What it would do is collect your ultimate team.

Each time you come across the Soul Creator in the Outerworld you can select new members. But you could choose to send one or more of them to the Soul Master. So as you progress through the Outerworld, building your low level characters, you are building a team of your best characters with the Soul Master. Once you have your best team and your current team is defeated, your next Outerworld run could be with your ultimate team at the highest level that your Porto portal level will allow.

I think this would make players use lower level characters more often as they know that in doing so, they are potentially preparing themself for a great alternate team, while bringing up the level of all the characters that they tend to avoid using.

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A strange visual glitch that occurs only in 84.9 is that during battles one character sometimes stands one space on front of where they are supposed to. Like right now I have an empty shield with a list of buffs below it and two characters standing on the front row.

1StepCloser1 year ago

Does this occur frequently?

It's happened twice today. The first time i ignored it. The second time I reported it. Once the character that is glitching attacks, they return to their regular position.

I think it always happens in the same situation, though I can't be 100% sure as I pay more attention to the skills being used and the enemies than the visual placings of my team.

These three things have all been happening when the glitch occurs.

It is the 1st character on my team.
They have a shield active.
The character is Sorawind.

I'll let you know if I notice it happen in any other way.

Also, did you drop the % chance of Soulmancer Freeze spell working from 50% to 40%, or did I do something to make this happen?

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docnutnut1 year ago

When I hold my cursor over the TBD icon, the floating name is nwjs, not TBD. I looked it up and it's programmer nerd stuff that I am sure you are aware of. Could my various issues be relating to Javascript?

I remember that I used to have to manually update Java on my PC periodically, but I haven't done that in years. Do I still need to or has that age long passed? And either way, is it or could it be relevant? I really am a noob with all this stuff. I get that it exists and to a point I get how it all works, but most of it goes in one ear and doesn't even make it to the other ear. I think it hangs around somewhere near my eardrum and leaves the way it came in so as to not disturb my brain into even tempting itself to learn what it has to offer.

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That works :)

Also, I have started a new Outerworld run with low level characters. One of them was at about 83/96 XP but I couldn't resist checking the hammers. But when I left Outerworld he had levelled up plus an extra 9XP. Then again, it could just be the idle XP gains. But maybe the XP thingy works better on your low and midlevel characters but not the top characters.

Then again, seeing as I still don't have a clue what you are trying to achieve, I don't know... how to finish this sentence and I don't really know why I started it.

Hammers. Yay! One step closer, indeed ;)

Hmm, so upon testing this several times.

After XP gain from XP Creator the souls (regardless of level or exp) always gained XP or gained a level.

So I'm not quite sure what's happening, as this suggests that XP gain from XP Creator works. (Thinking face)

Furthermore, upon revisiting the code, it's currently not possible to add a negative amount of XP to characters from the XP Creator.

This suggests that if you are experiencing XP loss (not quite sure how at this point) it's probably not from the XP Creator, (based on recent testing).

In terms of your sharing XP theory:

For the XP Creator, XP is not shared, the amount of XP Gain is independently applied to every character you've unlocked.