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I THINK I see what the problem is with idle XP earnings.

Right now all of my active character - Outerworld team and Expeditions team - are all in a Soul Room, except one character. Seven hours have passed and all those who are in a soul room have 7XP, the one who is not has more.

So it would seem that the soul room does not add XP gain from the Soul Room does not add to XP gain from the main Expi feature, it replaces it. It also seems to reset current XP amount upon quitting the game.

I think you just need to find a way for XP to never to be removed, lost or reset, only added. Sounds simple in my mind, but of course I'm not the nerd here.

Well, not THAT kind of nerd ;)

1StepCloser1 year ago

So it would seem that the soul room does not add XP gain from the Soul Room does not add to XP gain from the main Expi feature

What's the Soul Room in this case?

docnutnut1 year ago(+1)

The room that gives one character 1XP per hour.

1StepCloser1 year ago

Ahh okay, I'll need to check that out, thanks for the report.

docnutnut1 year ago(+1)

When you are offered three rewards, it always shows how many of each you have at the moment. Except with Orbs. It would be nice to be reminded how many I have of each. I have to use a screenshot to remind me.

1StepCloser1 year ago(+1)

Added to to-do-list. Thanks.

docnutnut1 year ago(+1)

I'm wondering if in a recent update you changed a few things.

Obviously you lowered the chance of freeze %age of Soulmancer's spell, but did you lower the chance of getting hammers from Expedition and did you drastically change the number of non-combat options in Outerworld?

Maybe I was lucky getting four hammers between the time they were added to expedition and the time that they started working and maybe I'm just being unlucky now, but there have been tweaks. I feel like that Lucky Charms cereal leprechaun getting super defensive over my hammers.

I used to be able to make a path with maybe only one skull in 20 levels if I wanted, now its hard to not have one skull in three.

In fact, I think that when I first played there were less non-fight options too, or maybe I just didn't really know what I was doing then. So maybe the question is, did you increase the non-fight options in a not-so-recent update and then undo it more recently?

1StepCloser1 year ago(+1)

I haven't altered hammer chances. (So yes, a matter of luck in this case)

I haven't altered combat option odds in the Outerworld, however, the odds of getting skulls increases the further you progress in the Outerworld (Up to a certain limit, but this has been in place for a long time)

docnutnut1 year ago(+1)

I'm back at the very early stages. I started from level 1 with a noob team to try and build up some of the low level characters in the hope that some of the high level characters would appear in Expansion. No luck yet.

It is fine battling rather than solving puzzles, but if nothing has changed then it's just perception or luck. No worries. Good to know that nothing has actually changed.

1StepCloser1 year ago (1 edit) (+1)

0.84.93 is availabe:

Orb Counts:

Soul Room Exp Issue:

Looks like you might have been on to something; I noticed a point in the code where it could have set the XP of the character to 0 when adding Soul Room Exp. Great Find!

Other than that, a few effects weren't working properly, for example, summon. Those should be fixed now.

docnutnut1 year ago(+1)

Good stuff.

Always good to have a docnutnut playing your game ;)

1StepCloser1 year ago(+1)

Always good to have a docnutnut playing your game ;)

It really is! I appreciate you!

docnutnut1 year ago(+1)

Another visual error I keep forgetting to mention.

When you have finished a long Otherworld run and it shows you all the things you've earned when you die, almost everything is listed in its own box. But anything that is used via the Sanctum hammer (not expedition hammer) appears over the screen rather than in its own box. Like a list of accessories has been copied and pasted on top of the regular end-of-Outerworld screen.

docnutnut1 year ago(+1)

Opening the game today is the first time ever that the XP looks like it should. A little more than yesterday all round.

1StepCloser1 year ago(+1)

Awesome!

docnutnut1 year ago(+1)

I only just realised that I don't need to be a dev to rate your game for the Jam. Got my comment in there in time.

1StepCloser1 year ago(+1)

Wow, just read it, that was an epic write-up. Thanks docnutnut!

docnutnut1 year ago(+1)

I just opened the game and there was an error in my Outerworld team's description.

Looking at their HP it was listed as 13/13, 14/14, 15/15 & 15/15. They all looked a little low, but as they were at 100% I didn't mind fighting. The level opened and they were all at under 50% HP. In fact they were at 13/30, 14/29. 15/33 & 15/35.

So the initial page showed their current HP as both actual and max. I usually stop Outerworld at a rest site, so I wouldn't have noticed this happening before so I don't know if this is a new or an old issue or just a freakish one-off.

Anyway, another issue to look at.

1StepCloser1 year ago

Could it be a Max HP increase from leveling up, or were they still the same level?

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