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Posted by capristo, Oct 6, 2023 at 12:43 pm
Oh duh... the game autosaves every ~100 steps or something right? And every time they go up/down a level. Totally forgot.

I think if it went back to the previous autosave that would be fine. I was imagining it taking them back from like GC6 to GC1 if they happened to be sitting and playing for a while.
Posted by capristo, Oct 3, 2023 at 10:34 pm
I don't like the save loading idea, I think that was a joke suggestion anyway. That could really piss people off

But I do like the moving back and forth in time, if done right that could be really cool. Question is how exactly it would work

If jumping into the future:
* would the player's hunger be affected?
* would food they're carrying spoil?
* would things that are on fire burn up?

if jumping into the past:
* would the player teleport back to where they were at that point in time?
* would mobs that had been killed during that time come back to life?

Being able to track and restore their state would mean it would have to be limited to a certain number of steps... but I think that's better anyway. It would be much more clear to the player that they're jumping back in time - I'm thinking something like Dr. Strange fighting Dormammu where they get frustrated having to fight him over and over again (but are also forced to try something new each time, since the pseudorandom seed would be the same, repeating the same actions would result in the exact same outcome). How cool would it be if we could actually animate things "rewinding"?? And if you encounter him above ground being able to see the light change as the sun rises/sets.

Also, an idea to keep him from being overpowered - his time traveling ability could be limited to a certain number of uses, it could even be a "staff of time travel" that he uses, and then if the player manages to kill him before he uses all the charges, they may even be able to time travel by their own choice!
Posted by capristo, Sep 26, 2023 at 10:52 am
Well you'd have to betray him and kill him all while also continuing to fend off whatever it was that made things turn ugly. Probably pretty hard to pull off!

And you'd lose all of your progress when it reset which could potentially be a lot

Keeping him tame could be potentially annoying depending on his stats.. if he ends up getting killed by enemies pretty easily and perpetually returning you back to a certain point in the game
Posted by capristo, Jun 27, 2023 at 5:16 pm
I appreciate that but no it's ok. It was more of just a) free money, might as well and b) annoy people into signing up.

I should've pulled the plug a long time ago but mostly just forgot they're there since I'm always logged in and don't see them
Posted by capristo, Jun 27, 2023 at 9:54 am
I've had Google ads running for a while (for guests only)

They were also on the Wiki - again for guests only, but the Wiki uses separate user accounts and is a bit of a pain to login to.

I'd say they were generating about $1-10 a month depending on how many clicks. Anyways, not a whole lot. The main banner ad had text stating that ads are hidden for members - the main goal for me was to encourage people to sign up. But I don't know if the trade off was worth it.

Decided to do my part to fight the enshittification of the internet and remove ads completely.

Hopefully if anything this will keep guests sticking around the Wiki and forum longer and sign up because they love playing IVAN and enjoy what they're reading.
Posted by capristo, May 2, 2023 at 1:24 pm
Thanks, it's fixed. It was just the Elastic server messing up, it was actually saving the new messages.
Posted by capristo, Mar 31, 2023 at 8:35 pm
"Been Caught Stealing" is suddenly stuck in my head
Posted by capristo, Mar 31, 2023 at 8:31 pm
wow yeah that is suspiciously IVANesque especially the SendToHell bit

I vote we sue Github, collect a nice payment, and use that for fejoa to work on IVAN full time
Posted by capristo, Mar 17, 2023 at 5:54 pm
I honestly don't know how I ever did artifical limb wins. Whenever I try them now I can't handle the danger level anymore
Posted by capristo, Oct 6, 2022 at 8:21 pm
Confirmed that we are on the free-for-personal use plan, so all good and no cost