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ABCGi

Sun Aug 02 2009, 12:26AM

abcgi

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SLASH WROTE:

With the fixes and adjustments you've been expecting! :)
Check the detailed Changes log for further info!
Thanks for all your comments!

http://www.santiagoz.com/blog/?p=655

Pixal - 0.0.14a
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- 0000837: [REQUEST FOR ENHANCEMENT] 10 AP cost per fight for attacker - closed.
- 0000836: [EXPLOIT] Leaving a tournament doesnt reset stats - closed.
- 0000835: [BUG REPORT] Level 1 pixals cant bu ysidekick weapons - closed.
- 0000828: [REQUEST FOR ENHANCEMENT] Nerf Thrust - closed.
- 0000823: [EXPLOIT] 0AP fight cost - closed.
- 0000821: [BUG REPORT] Colour all battle damage - closed.
- 0000820: [BUG REPORT] Problems with defender level up - closed.
- 0000816: [REQUEST FOR ENHANCEMENT] Increase Proc of KO, Quickness and others - closed.
- 0000818: [REQUEST FOR ENHANCEMENT] Buff Disarm - closed.
- 0000815: [BUG REPORT] Buff blunt weapons - closed.
- 0000814: [TASK] Nerf two handed weapons - closed.
- 0000811: [BUG REPORT] Damaged armor may not be working ok - closed.
- 0000809: [BUG REPORT] Mace 2 property missing on english - closed.
- 0000805: [REQUEST FOR ENHANCEMENT] Add flat XP bonus per fight - closed.
- 0000792: [TASK] Dont send email when acepting a friend request - closed.
- 0000791: [TASK] Allow comparison of Tools and Secondary tools with Big tools - closed.
- 0000790: [TASK] Show coverage for armor - closed.
- 0000789: [BUG REPORT] Sidekick weapons not showing stats - closed.
- 0000788: [BUG REPORT] Reply button shows even when you are not logged in - closed.
- 0000787: [REQUEST FOR ENHANCEMENT] * TOOLTIP: add a tooltip to the plus sign to say what effect that stat has (as above). - closed.
- 0000786: [EXPLOIT] * Can suck gold of an oponnet with the rank loss feature - closed.
- 0000785: [REQUEST FOR ENHANCEMENT] Tied tournaments must not cause rank loss - closed.
- 0000763: [EXPLOIT] Crowd payment exploit - closed.
- 0000743: [TASK] Allow message deletion - closed.
- 0000822: [TASK] Add pixal image for all notifications - closed.
- 0000735: [TASK] Fix all email templates, add the pixal from whom the action came instead of a generic pixal - closed.
- 0000645: [TASK] Fight notification must have a link to the fight outcome - closed.
- 0000644: [TASK] Message sent notification must include link to thread - closed.
- 0000664: [REQUEST FOR ENHANCEMENT] You might want to open up the “browse pixals” options to levels > 9 - closed.
- 0000725: [REQUEST FOR ENHANCEMENT] Change message when cant perform tech due to AP costs - closed.
- 0000379: [REQUEST FOR ENHANCEMENT] Enhance Aim Message - closed.

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ABCGi

Sun Aug 02 2009, 12:28AM

abcgi

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Already noticed the red -1 for rank when you lose a spot and can no longer win gold till you get back up to where you were. Very cool and works simply. I noticed though if I am rank 4 and lose to rank 3 and goto rank 5 and fight rank 3 again I don't get gold - I should in that case, only not if I fight rank 4.

* BUG: In Chrome the tooltips for the skills selection screen ("Let the battle begin!") are appearing miles below the icon. This could be because I have a lot of skills.

Other changes look interesting, KO at 40% seems too high - can it be dodged? Do you have to land your normal blow? Although I noticed it costs 24AP now! So ok :) "Thor failed to perform the technique, his level is too low!" - level limit for KO needs to be on its tooltip,

or is it now for every skill you need to be equal or higher to the level of the skill? That could be cool and lead to more skills being used.

Skills brought into the 4th round are cool.

Raised the base AP up for all by level (130AP for level 10) = cool. Still need the Endurance bonus as well.

* BUG: Missing the coloured and bolded text for damage taken and healing etc.

Not seeing any evidence that Thrust has been nerfed:
http://slashie.net/pixal/FightersService?action=showFight&battleId=33630&noAnimation=true

* BUG?: Having trouble copying and pasting text for fight result in chrome

[ Edited Sun Aug 02 2009, 01:02AM ]

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Slash

Sun Aug 02 2009, 01:10AM

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ABCGi wrote ...

* BUG: In Chrome the tooltips for the skills selection screen ("Let the battle begin!") are appearing miles below the icon. This could be because I have a lot of skills.

I hope this gets fixed when I implement JQuery popups...

ABCGi wrote ...

or is it now for every skill you need to be equal or higher to the level of the skill? That could be cool and lead to more skills being used.

It has always been like that... but it is made clearer now

ABCGi wrote ...

Skills brought into the 4th round are cool.

What! this isn't happening... yet!

ABCGi wrote ...

* BUG: Missing the coloured and bolded text for damage taken and healing etc.

Yeah, just clear the cache while in your profile (Ctrl+F5), and it will work

ABCGi wrote ...

Not seeing any evidence that Thrust has been nerfed:
http://slashie.net/pixal/FightersService?action=showFight&battleId=33630&noAnimation=true

Now you are very likely to fail if you use a skill more than once

ABCGi wrote ...

* BUG?: Having trouble copying and pasting text for fight result in chrome

Will check

Slash
"The average player of your game will give it 5 minutes and the ditch it. If you don't grab him by the throat during those 5 minutes, you've failed." (Anubis, rgrd)

ABCGi

Sun Aug 02 2009, 01:17AM

abcgi

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ABCGi said ...

or is it now for every skill you need to be equal or higher to the level of the skill? That could be cool and lead to more skills being used.

It has always been like that... but it is made clearer now

* Well Quickness is level 10 and I used it as a level 7 and it fired. Thrust didn't let me though. Also if thrust is level 10 how come I win it getting to level 8 and then can't use it?

Coverage now for breast, helmet and leggings now? Do they work like 3 shields or can only one be involved? And its possible all three miss? Hows it work exactly? The full coat of arms at 90% is looking good now.

I note there is some hard leather armour (red) there that has coverage 0%!

"Now you are very likely to fail if you use a skill more than once"
Interesting - is it clear when this happens as to why?

Ctrl-F5 worked: nice use of blue :)

Thor couldn't perform the technique again!
> ALACARD deflects Thor's attack!
> Thor hits ALACARD for 8 damage

None

Trap Weapon
> ALACARD misses!

Critical Hit x 1!
ALACARD hits Thor's Leather Shirt
Thor's Leather Shirt is damaged, defense reduced by 1!

[ Edited Sun Aug 02 2009, 01:36AM ]

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ABCGi

Sun Aug 02 2009, 01:42AM

abcgi

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+ Tooltips are cool, btw it should say for Soul - "Spell effectiveness" not "Spell effectivity" which is not a word AFAIK, or if it is, it's not a very good word!

"Thor couldn't perform the technique again!" - for too many repeats, ok working. It might not be 100% clear though to new players. "Thor failed the technique because he repeated it too many times". But its probably ok. BTW the message should not come up for blank skills (which it does now).

Theme wise the KnockOut being described as "shockweaved" the opponents mind makes it a spell so Soul should play a part. And if there is warrior version it should be "Thor yells MAMA SAID KNOCK YOU OUT!" It will be interesting to see how this skill goes with balancing - it is very interesting with your new change of not repeating skills (might need to be clearer in game what the chances are of failure for repeating a skill).

CHANGE: I'd like to see the totaling of the fight changed to how I suggested earlier, also the total damage done to armour (blue) and total bleeding could be of interest too. It's not entirely clear (esp for new players) whether the damage to armour carries over to the next round or not.

STRATEGIC PLANNING: Some thought needs to go into some polish toward making the game accessible to new players, I think, I've mentioned a few examples before.

[ Edited Sun Aug 02 2009, 02:08AM ]

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ABCGi

Sun Aug 02 2009, 02:34AM

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Defensive Decks are much more trickey to plan now, well done :) Here's what I settled on:

KO
Thrust
Dodge 2
Charge
Berserk
Quickness

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ABCGi

Sun Aug 02 2009, 03:47AM

abcgi

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BUG: 10AP per started tournament fight works (and works well, good job) but a duel is still only costing 1AP - duel's should cost 10AP to start as well, or 5AP perhaps. Otherwise you can level all day.

DAILY BONUS: Should add some bonus XP for the first fight of the day for each Pixal to encourage frequent log ons. Also a gold bonus the first time the player logs on for the day.

[ Edited Sun Aug 02 2009, 04:46AM ]

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Slash

Sun Aug 02 2009, 10:17AM

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ABCGi wrote ...

* Well Quickness is level 10 and I used it as a level 7 and it fired. Thrust didn't let me though.

If you use skills higher level than your pixal, you have a failure rate of (techLevel - pixalLevel) * 20%

ABCGi wrote ...

Also if thrust is level 10 how come I win it getting to level 8 and then can't use it?

Well, that was possibly due to a change on Thrust Level, if it is lv10 then you must only get it on level 10

ABCGi wrote ...

Coverage now for breast, helmet and leggings now? Do they work like 3 shields or can only one be involved? And its possible all three miss? Hows it work exactly? The full coat of arms at 90% is looking good now.

There's always been coverage, I just have not shown it until now (which I must had). Basically, each armor part has a coverage % which is used when it is time to determine where a blow lands, so if you have a full suit of armor it may sum 80-90% of coverage, which means only 10% of the blows will go directly to the skin

ABCGi wrote ...

"Now you are very likely to fail if you use a skill more than once"
Interesting - is it clear when this happens as to why?

30% chance of failing for each second attempt

Slash
"The average player of your game will give it 5 minutes and the ditch it. If you don't grab him by the throat during those 5 minutes, you've failed." (Anubis, rgrd)

ABCGi

Sun Aug 02 2009, 06:44PM

abcgi

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Ah ok, that is all very cool. I feel you need to find ways to get this information across to the player in-game... it could be on a "skill examination screen" or something so its out of the way but the game is enhanced if the player knows this stuff. For instance strategically I might choose to try a skill a level above because despite the failure chance it is so much better than some other skill - without this information I would never try a skill above me because I would assume it never works.

I'd be most likely to include it in brackets whenever it occurs "(30% repeat fail chance)" and this guarantees the player is never scratching their head saying WTF?

Is each piece of armour rolled separately or together? What happens when coverage > 100% ?

CHANGE: ITEM CLOAK. I think a charm of Pixal is the way it brings in classics from the oeuvre of RLs and RPGs and gives it the Pixal twist. So the classic item in RLs that is missing is of course a cloak. As with gloves and luck this type of item should probably have a unique benefit of some kind. Graphically it should flow behind the Pixal out of the way of the rest of their equipment, I think.

BTW the new update is great, it is really shaping up along the right lines, good job!

[ Edited Sun Aug 02 2009, 06:50PM ]

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Slash

Sun Aug 02 2009, 09:16PM

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All on mantis now, thank you :)

Slash
"The average player of your game will give it 5 minutes and the ditch it. If you don't grab him by the throat during those 5 minutes, you've failed." (Anubis, rgrd)

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