I made a list of issues I found while playing the most recent modpack version, which I have been unable to release yet. I thought I'd also post this here, because maybe someone else would be able to help with the bugfixing as well. Some of the bugs have to do with code that is already in the latest released version of the modpack; mostly having to do with CCC's fake forts at Oxbay.
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Also: Corpses are finally being saved when loading a game! COOL!
I also found some other strange things:
- A trader in Greenford standing in a barrel. See attached picture “Standing inside barrel.JPGâ€.
- I encountered towngirl7 attacking me near the Greenford mines. I saw that you set her to a low pirate chance, but are towngirls supposed to be encounterable as enemies in the jungles?
- The Difficulty Level button is disabled when you haven’t started/loaded a game yet. That is good. But now, if you haven’t started/loaded a game yet and you use the arrow keys to move through the options menu, you can still put the selection on the Difficulty Level button. Only then you can’t use any keyboard buttons anymore, but just your mouse until you highlighted something else again. Can you make it so that when you have the Controls button selected, the arrow down button will not select the Difficulty Level button, unless you have started/loaded a game?
- You have disabled the Choose Outfit button while in the tutorial. Can you also disable that button when you’re viewing an officer’s statistics, but haven’t hired him/her yet? It’s a bit odd to be able to change the outfit of a character you haven’t hired yet.
- I found you added a lot of Inez’s BuildSettings frontend code, but haven’t seen anything to do with it ingame. Is there already something working or not yet?
- When I entered CCC’s fake Oxbay fort, instead of soldiers waiting there to fight me, there were civilians. I reckon the enemies in the fake forts should somehow be set to soldier type again. Daniell3 was there as a high-ranking officer to whom I could talk about surrender. She didn’t budge and called the guards. Then the actual guards did show up. One of them must have thrown an etherbottle because there was suddenly smoke all over the place. After all guards were killed again, my officer was poisoned by a Borgiablade, but she refused to use an antidote, even though I did give her one. Also: When looting the corpses, some of them, instead of showing the transfer interface, opened the stunned_dailog.c. I suppose that is because of the etherbottle being used. When I used the rep-up potion option, they’d die afterwards.
- While fighting in the fake fort, I encountered two high-ranking officers to who I could take, one of them being towngirl4. Was quite weird, because the dialog wasn’t made for women (“You seem like a reasonable fellowâ€). One of the civilian-looking “soldiers†accidentally hit her, so she began fighting her own “soldiersâ€. She then ended up being poisoned by a Borgiablade. Talking about strange happenings…
- Albatrosses seem to be a very common find in chest. I encountered three Albatrosses in one dungeon (in three different chests). Ruby’s also seem very common.
- The Fine Vagrant is -1 Luck +1 Repair (or something like that), but the other qualities aren’t.
- When fighting in the Oxbay dungeons, suddenly I heard the sound of someone throwing a knife, then somebody called “Guards, Guards! Come quickly!â€. I don’t know what happened, but it was weird.
BTW: I thought that maybe there should be some place to get SWAK weapons. Now you need to have the luck to run into them. Maybe you should be given some at the start of the game after the tutorial, just like when you’d play a Stormy Start. Or maybe there should be random people selling them. Or at least some way of having them readily available. And they also seem rather commonly carried by enemies. Maybe enemies should carry them a bit less frequently?
I don’t think I can make a new update available today. My internet connection is highly unstable and I’ve only been able to use it for about an hour today. Really bloody annoying. Wished my provider would do something about it. Anyway: I made some changes myself again, so I thought I’d add my own modified files to this e-mail, so you can do with it as you please:
- I made some modifications to the Blacksmith files. Nothing really important; just removing/changing superfluous code. I saw that I added BLACKSMITH_PAY_OUT_WEALTH toggles to the wait dates as well. Why, I have no idea. Anyway: I now removed it again as it made no sense whatsoever.
- I made some changes to the models in initModels.c and some new ones were added. Basically, I added Bmunk to be encounterable as skeleton and I removed the nogun settings for Fanielle and the two Noblemans, because High Sea Lass has fixed them.
- I made some changes to the Quick-Equip code in seadogs.c. It should be working fine now, but it doesn’t. For some reason, if you equip a new gun/a new spyglass/armor, but not a new blade, the game will properly equip it, but won’t show the logstr. I hope you’ll be able to fix that.
That’s all for now. Good luck.
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