HaakonOfTheVortex
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6 years ago Wow, I forgot I had ever written this! We just ported the Vortex over to Linux and one of our last things to do is go back and recreate our Ultimate Usurper, where we had added a bunch of items and changed levels and monsters and all sorts of fun stuff. Through all the hours of testing making sure everything was in sync, and years of playing, we identified lots of things like these issues. I'm so glad it's helping drive Usurper forward. Arelas and I would be more than happy to help you test bug fixes or even be an experimental Usurper site. Since putting the board back up a couple of years ago we've been slow to advertise it and start driving up traffic, mainly because we had some things we wanted to finish before really pushing it. However we are pretty much to that point now and need to start letting people know we're back up for good. You can check out our website at http://vortexbbs.com. Anyway, I'll see if I can figure out how to send you a private message about but #20 but damn if I can remember how I did #2 with the healing potions! Anyway, so glad to see you are still working on this. Anything we can do to help we'll gladly do! Thanks!
dan1982code
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Might make more sense to split these up into individual issues, but I'm being lazy and pasting under one issue for now.
This is from a post on Jakob's Usurper forum by Haakon, and other follow-up posts.
The bank can be robbed over and over, especially when macros are set, and a player be able to raise tens of levels in short order.
Going home has no balance; the go to sleep option should just be temporarily disabled until you can break into someone's home somehow, in which case the inn doorguards should be available at one's home, and one shouldn't be able to just go home, without having first purchased one; especially not be able to marry before buying a home. the homes should be editable and their prices and possible bonus attributes (extra hit points, armor points, etc. when defending better homes).
The monster editor is almost useless. None of the monster settings you change are actually recognized by Usurper except for strength. Strength isn't even strength, it's strength and hitpoints. Higher strength settings results in harder hits and more monster hitpoints. Having all the monsters accurately use all the fields would be awesome.
Having the Supreme Being's stats based on some sort of percentage of whatever, and being hard coded, tends to make him weak, especially in customized games. Being able to atleast toggle between that or to the game recognizing his stats like all the other monsters.
Teammates you bring to the dungeon all die incredibly fast after increasing monsters' strength. By resurrecting his teammates and fighting in the dungeon, the person can kill many more monsters than ever intended, since his teammates instantly die, leaving all the monsters that were meant for them there for him to kill alone.
The experience lost when losing in a player fight should not be tied to monster percentages, and should be independently configurable. You may have a tough dungeon and want no experience lost, but want players to lose experience in a player fight. Lastly, you should be able to specify fractions of percents...to me, 1% is even often too much to use, so being able to say .25 would be great.
Fighting doorguards can sometimes result in it missing completely when it tries to hit you. Why does this only occur here? Shouldn't that happen everywhere based on your agility?
The \"range\" when selecting a moat monster goes from \"0 .. 8, please\" even when you have more than 8 monsters, making all after 8 inaccessible.Challenging a team at times when they are all busy takes a fight from you even though you didn't actually get to fight.It would be nice to be able to set a max number of times you can play hi-low.
There is a bug with the inventory/equip/unequip code. You can't properly specify which ring (and maybe neck too) finger you're wanting to add to, resulting in you having to remove both items, and then add the two you want to use.
Children should give you more daily experience. Children should also be able to do other neat things, for example, the square root of the number of children you have is that many bonus dungeon fights you get, etc. Children would be very useful, and then should start costing a lot to keep. That should be able to be configured too -- cost per child per day perhaps.
Cost of being married should be configurable. Being married should also do more than just let you force an intimate session. The intimate sessions themselves perhaps could maybe be configurable, allowing you to make having sex give you much more experience than it does now, and reduce the number of times you can do it. Who can really have sex 20 times in a day...like when two people use their 10 turns on each other?
Many of the delay prompts take too long and could really be pause prompts (having sex takes forever).It would be nice if when you wanted to rape the girl in the dungeon, you didn't end up \"saving\" her and I think earning chivalry when you killed the hostile monsters.2) Also a major bug still exists..the money/healing potion duplication trick that has been around for years..I have a character on a board with 2,000,000,000 healings do to this bug...email me for further explanation of where the bug is located..