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The portal to the spacestation opened up before I was told about it.

I'm not sure if this is intentional, but...

Cannot lead to victory if you do no other damage. My fierce defenses did over 100 damage to a retro rave creature without killing it. I think those guys can take about 40.

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Jesus (#229) | Solitude (#257)

Yeah, it's been mentioned. My "narrative justification" is that most opponents won't actually incapacitate themselves on your defenses trying to fight you. You've gotta do some damage yourself. The numbers don't quite make sense, I do realize.

Perhaps there should be some floor to how much "extra" damage it can take? Relating to the enemy level and/or HP or something...

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Shouldn't they stop hitting you, then? They should stand there passively until you finally land a blow >_>

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I find it hard to believe that spines can't impale and incapacitate an enemy. Or that a fiery shield can't burn an enemy. etc.

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The problem is that it's hard to imagine defenses damage making a difference with higher level encounters, while at the lower level fatal defense damage is likely to come only after the player misses a lot. It's frustrating to miss a lot, and seeing a creature take damage that should kill it isn't exactly helpful.

I understand wanting a player to come up with some offense of their own, but then of the four classes, Elementals start with a skill that always hits... Psions get one quickly... and Gadgeteers get one eventually. Only Naturalists are left out in the cold -- all they can do is try to hit things, and if they can't hit, it's not going to die.


One more thing -- if fatal defense damage is dealt to a creature on the same round you hit it yourself, then it won't die. Today, I killed at IT wizard with 51 damage [ice bolt only]... then later failed to kill one when it was dealt 70 damage in one round [ice bolt + defense].

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Jesus (#229) | Solitude (#257)

Yes, but the Gadgeteer ones doesn't scale. When fighting robots with 2000+ HP, a 13 damage grenade isn't especially helpful...

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The churches are empty / The priest has gone home / And we are left standing / Together alone
--October Project: "Dark Time"

I know, I've been in that boat (I thought a shock grenade would have worked better against robots...) The point is, if you absolutely, positively need to hit something, Naturalists are the only class with no guarantee.

Of course, everyone can sling enerbun around, but you can't equip something to give you that back per turn.

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Jesus (#229) | Solitude (#257)

Or use just about any other combat item, really. Most are guaranteed damage.

Hm. Sometimes, people who have logged off still show up on /who, even hours later. My guess is that it happens when they close their browser without logging off.

Not sure if there's an easy fix, but... there ya go.

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The churches are empty / The priest has gone home / And we are left standing / Together alone
--October Project: "Dark Time"

I think that fixing something like that would entail running some sort of timed process on the database to confirm that sessions are valid. I know that in the past when I've had to do that at work it hit the database so hard we had to turn it off and just make sure people hit the proper logout button.

I've been thinking about this myself for my game and I am wondering, assuming that Ryme uses PHP sessions, if there is a way to get the current expired sessions so you can use those IDs to update the database and log people out without hitting the database hard.

I'm guessing the session id which is set in a cookie when you log in is unique and assosiated with a user id in a table in the database. If so, it would be trivial to have a script store it in another table ('in_chat' or something) as a 'sid varchar(32) unique' along with a sysdate every time getNewMessages() (I don't remember the exact name of the function) is called when you're in chat. I think that is done every two seconds, so maybe it shouldn't be done quite that often. Then just set up a cronjob running every minute or so to clean up entries in the table which are too old.

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It would seem that the first time after logging in, "The Cube Theater" is replaced by "Cube Theater" temporarily. This occurs in the Last Visited link on the left panel, and on the end-of-fight screen at the end of the first fight. It goes back to including a "the" for the rest of the session.

Confuses the hell out of me

Not sure if this is a bug, or just a weird result of how leveling works:

No strength?

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The churches are empty / The priest has gone home / And we are left standing / Together alone
--October Project: "Dark Time"

Other than elementals, the other classes can possibly level up and not get any of one (or even two) stats. Just isn't statistically very common. Elementals always get some of each.

I noticed that the old Wind Warrior buff I had on my character was still there even when I used the new item to get the companion. The companion skill went where it should above the buffs and I had a line for Wind Warrior also in my buffs from before. I didn't test to see if it I was getting the buffs from both and when the turns from the old skill ran out it just went away. Not a particularly bad bug, just an odd one that will go away as people adventure away their current buffs. Figured it should be noted still.

In the new choice adventure, two of the options are linking to options elsewhere...

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Er, whoops. That wasn't supposed to be open yet. Accidentally activated it while testing something else.

Heheh. Seemed out of left field, yeah.

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PMs to an offline account look normal to the person sending them. I didn't test the other end.

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I'm not sure I follow what you mean. PM's look normal? There's only one way for PM's to look, and the game doesn't have any ability to tell if you're online or not, outside of the /who function, which is only accurate to within a minute or two.

Oh, I meant that there is no signification of a person being offline.

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Couch familiar icons seem to disappear from the left pane. They're still active, but I've had both Short Round and the crow image vanish when logging back in. Buffalo (and I assume wolf and warrior) seem to be unaffected by this.

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The churches are empty / The priest has gone home / And we are left standing / Together alone
--October Project: "Dark Time"

Oh, right, the login script. Should be fixed.

Seems to be; thanks.

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The churches are empty / The priest has gone home / And we are left standing / Together alone
--October Project: "Dark Time"

When you hire Salvador... er... Martin, the left pane doesn't refresh.

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The churches are empty / The priest has gone home / And we are left standing / Together alone
--October Project: "Dark Time"