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Posted by capristo, May 29, 2014 at 11:26 am

Game Balance in forum IVAN Development

Pent wrote

IMO most of them are alright (for example, the metal materials completely destroy your speed in exchange for the extra power), but the feather ones have incredibly high speed and strength, with no downside other than the lack of natural healing (which isn't really that detrimental, since with Phoenix Feather/GEF limbs you'll almost never get hit anyways).

I once loaded up an old save that was on GC4, decided to change all my limbs to ommel hair and just sprint downward and see how long I'd last. I ended up killing Elpuri and getting the freedom ending, with a very low score of around 80k. My armor was crappy, and I was wielding two +5 hand axes made of weak materials (iron or steel, I think). No victory should be that easy in IVAN.

Sure but you wouldn't be able to get those limbs so early in the game without going into wiz mode

I think that we've all been playing this game so long and know all the tricks that we forget how difficult it is for someone who's new.

I kind of like that there are some things like this that you can use to make the game easier, but still difficult, and of course later you can challenge yourself to go for a natural limb victory. Same with the permanent Telecontrol and ESP.

Also the Wiki / forum makes things much easier. I would have never figured out the permanent Telecontrol thing on my own.

Posted by capristo, May 28, 2014 at 10:22 pm

Game Balance in forum IVAN Development

Hmm, I feel like the artificial limbs are fine. It makes it easier but even with those limbs it still requires strategy to beat Petrus, Sherry, and so on.

Posted by capristo, May 28, 2014 at 10:34 am

I accidentally attacked a floating eye... in forum General IVAN Discussion

oof. Ouch. At least he died painlessly in his sleep

Posted by capristo, May 23, 2014 at 4:52 pm

Flames in forum IVAN Development

Weren't ranged weapons planned eventually? Then you should be able to either fire a ranged weapon or throw an item at an intended square, and of course the distance of how far you can throw is affected by arm strength.. maybe dexterity also affects accuracy

Posted by capristo, May 22, 2014 at 12:53 pm

Flames in forum IVAN Development

Oooo I love the thought of fighting through GC6 with a flaming sword and there's a bunch of burning zombies wandering around.

Posted by capristo, May 20, 2014 at 10:18 am

Fundraising in forum IVAN Development

Just showing appreciation. I don't think there is any expense that actually needs to be covered

Posted by capristo, May 20, 2014 at 1:02 am

Planning for Release in forum IVAN Development

I vote for making this a variant.

The mood system seems a little ambitious maybe but otherwise the merged 0.51 list seems good to me.

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* Fix any known major bugs (we'll create a separate thread for bug reports, and decide which to include).

Were there any other major bugs besides these ones?

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* BUGFIX: the shop door creation bug and dissolving body parts (TTY only?)
* BUGFIX: Mustard gas hostility bug

I have faith in Pent and Warheck, but we've had so many failed attempts to restart this so let's see if we actually get .51 released then we'll do a fundraiser

Posted by capristo, May 20, 2014 at 12:56 am

Fundraising in forum IVAN Development

Eagle V wrote

I'd be willing to try a reward system. I'm betting most people here trust you, cap, so how about the money stays somewhere safe under your control, for starters, and then we offer rewards to various tasks. Eg, $20 for the altar of Silva quest, and so on. And then keep some apart for hosting attnam.com, and some to buy a beer for the original devs.
I have no idea if it's a common idea (or even a good one), but it seems to me this would both split any money fairly and at the same time act as an incentive to code.
I'll be sponsoring anyway, though how much I'll have to give remains to be seen.

The only other option I could think of was if we just set amounts for every semi-major release and then looked back and estimated the % that people contributed.

But I think your way is simpler and probably better.

I'll be contributing so there's no need to set any aside for hosting but thanks for the thought

Posted by capristo, May 19, 2014 at 12:39 pm

The IVAN Script-Editing Challenge in forum Community Gaming

I totally forgot I had edited the script files with that golem room. I lost an arm and went back hoping the priestess would re-attach it and then immediately panicked when I stepped into New Attnam. I decided to set the golems free and let them rampage through the town.

Posted by capristo, May 19, 2014 at 12:32 pm

Fundraising in forum IVAN Development

Starting a new topic to avoid cluttering everything into 1 topic again.

Fundraising has been mentioned before. I don't think it's big enough for Kickstarter, etc. but if we ever had a fundraising just on this site, it would be good to know who that money should go to. Thoughts?