Build 0024 bugs

[mindphaser]

It says you switched combat mode, but it stays on Random.

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Exchange weapons doesn't work (no option to use Steel Chain or Fists).

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If you enter an invalid medical doses, the <CR> after the error message doesn't pause. (IE if you try to buy more doses then you can pay for the screen saying you don't have enough money goes by too fast.)

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Probably not a bug, but Unlimited time?
Time remaining     :[ ì min.
Time : ì

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The combat still seems kinda ...lopsided to me.  Granted I didn't have any armor, but this Madatem kicked my butt.  The Grave digger before that did too (I was able to run from him).  Also if a person is infected, should it affect their ability to fight?  Or at least subtract HP from them like it does me?  (I guess it depends on the disease?)

Take a look at a match I recorded (minus the misses):

Madatem stats:
Str: 2
Dex: 18
Weapon: Jack Knife
Armor: Barbed Wire
Disease: Pneumonia

My stats:
Str: 24
Dex: 17
HP:  19
Weapon: Steel Chain
Armor: none
Disease: none

1st hit: me -> madatem (2)
2nd hit: me -> madatem (2)
3rd hit: madatem -> me (2)
4th hit: madatem -> me (6)
5th hit: madatem -> me (2)
6th hit: me -> madatem (2)
7th hit: madatem -> me (3)
8th hit: madatem -> me (6)

Then to top it off, I get experience for the kill, and crystals.  Then it tells me that I've gained two levels and sends me back to reality.

-<Hand-To-Hand>  é A

Her hideous attack catches you offguard and ruptures into your ribs!

Fighting:             Hit Points:
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MINDPHASER              0  (19)
Madatem                 10 (16)
[DEBUG]: His death

Her brains seep down her forehead as she grinds her teeth through a sputter
of blood.

(You are awarded 1125 experience points!)

You snatch 317 water crystals from the dead carcass.

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After dying and rejoining the server, it doesn't know who I am and it wants me to reregister--but it says my username is in use.   (I wanted to see if it would resurrect me right away...)

-MP

[Tarix]

Most of what you listed are bugs, but ...

The combat still seems kinda ...lopsided to me.  Granted I didn't have any armor, but this Madatem kicked my butt.  

That creature was clearly stronger than you.  Had you out stated and out weaponed.  Notice how much more effective the Madatem's weapon is than yours?

After dying and rejoining the server, it doesn't know who I am and it wants me to reregister--but it says my username is in use.   (I wanted to see if it would resurrect me right away...)

If I put in your email address I get prompted for you access code.  And yes it currently lets you resurrect immediately.  It's a bug, but a purposeful one!

[mindphaser]

That creature was clearly stronger than you.  Had you out stated and out weaponed.  Notice how much more effective the Madatem's weapon is than yours?

What no way!  Someone with a strength of 2 ?!  hehe ok ok I'll be quiet now....

If I put in your email address I get prompted for you access code.  And yes it currently lets you resurrect immediately.  It's a bug, but a purposeful one!

Hrrrm in my eagerness to resurrect I must've typed in my email address wrong.  I just tried it and it worked!  Thanks.

-MP

[Tarix]

I seperated the bugs out and moved this to discussion ...

That creature was clearly stronger than you.

What no way!  Someone with a strength of 2 ?!  hehe ok ok I'll be quiet now....

I agree that stats in Overkill are kind of different than most games.  However, the important thing to remember is that strength is a bonus on top of the weapon.

What actually killed you was the fact that you guys had similar dex and similar hit points.  So you would both hit roughly the same, but she would always hit for more damage ...  If you had her weapon and armor then you should win that fight more often than not.

Hrrrm in my eagerness to resurrect I must've typed in my email address wrong.  I just tried it and it worked!  Thanks.

I want to add an extra prompt to that series.  Something like:

... email address?  mikem@traix.net

Would you like to create a new character?  No

email address? mikem@tarix.net

etc ...

I think I'll code that up for the 0025 release.  It's just something the BBS door game didn't really have to deal with since it was always passed the users realname.

-T

[mindphaser]

I want to add an extra prompt to that series.  Something like:

... email address?  mikem@traix.net

Would you like to create a new character?  No

email address? mikem@tarix.net

etc ...

I think I'll code that up for the 0025 release.  It's just something the BBS door game didn't really have to deal with since it was always passed the users realname.

-T

Well initially I didn't know that my email address was my username.    The way you say it sounds like we could have more then one character at a time?  That'd be neat--useful for bug testing too (as I'm thinking about making another one to test some squadron stuff).

You could do a manage character interface at the login screen so you could terminate characters or transfer items between characters...

[Tarix]

Well initially I didn't know that my email address was my username.    The way you say it sounds like we could have more then one character at a time?  That'd be neat--useful for bug testing too (as I'm thinking about making another one to test some squadron stuff).

In the final game it would be considered cheating to have more than one character.  This is true for most MUDs as well.

However, for the sake of testing feel free to create a few.