mystral Posted December 23, 2010 Report Share Posted December 23, 2010 I've just started a new game using patch 19. It seems you've changed the behavior of the compete action to no longer give 3 merit if the roll fails. The problem is, the other student are still using it, even though it doesn't do anything for them any longer. They're just wasting their time until they have a good enough rank in the compete parent skill. So either the change to compete was unintended, or you forgot to change the AI's priority toward it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legate of Mineta Posted December 23, 2010 Report Share Posted December 23, 2010 minamber; Bah! The Content Team misunderstood the Action of 'make Compete's Description match it's Effects.' Removing the automatic Effect, I suppose, *does* make Compete's Description correct. This will be corrected in DLC 5. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
89157Z Posted December 23, 2010 Report Share Posted December 23, 2010 Ow! That's a long time to wait with a busted Compete action. I really wish modifying the game worked better; I'd simply release a temporary fan-patch for issues like this! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GunslingerV Posted December 23, 2010 Report Share Posted December 23, 2010 Why not fix with Patch 20? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legate of Mineta Posted December 23, 2010 Report Share Posted December 23, 2010 Gunslinger; It's a content fix- it's not something that can be corrected in a code Patch. If you all would like a temporary content Patch, it's easy enough to prepare one- let me know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GunslingerV Posted December 23, 2010 Report Share Posted December 23, 2010 Gunslinger; It's a content fix- it's not something that can be corrected in a code Patch. If you all would like a temporary content Patch, it's easy enough to prepare one- let me know. Legate, I think it would be really useful to have a hotfix - while it's interesting to see lower merit scores across the board, the main issue is seemingly wasted AI actions at this point. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legate of Mineta Posted December 23, 2010 Report Share Posted December 23, 2010 Gunslinger; Sure- although, those actions aren't entirely wasted- they will eventually cease to use them, as failures grow, and instead focus their energies in either Training or doing something else. The Students will cease to use Compete over time (until they Train well), and the net effect is a much slower Merit increase with much more Player effect- of interest to at least some of you... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legate of Mineta Posted December 23, 2010 Report Share Posted December 23, 2010 And here's what the Content Team wrote, verbatim: "Gol darn it! Up to six points of Merit in one go? When I was in school, you had to eat an entire poisonous frog in one swallow and chase it down with a fistful of broken glass just to get one point! ONE! And we were grateful, dammit, `cause we had character! ... Change made. " ...we'll put up a Content Patch for this tomorrow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mystral Posted December 23, 2010 Author Report Share Posted December 23, 2010 Gunslinger; Sure- although, those actions aren't entirely wasted- they will eventually cease to use them, as failures grow, and instead focus their energies in either Training or doing something else. The Students will cease to use Compete over time (until they Train well), and the net effect is a much slower Merit increase with much more Player effect- of interest to at least some of you... The other problem with compete as it is now is that you haven't changed the reward scale for it. Meaning players are unlikely to ever get anything worthwhile from it. Except the satisfaction of having their college be the greatest, maybe. Speaking of which, will which college won the merit race have an effect in later years? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legate of Mineta Posted December 24, 2010 Report Share Posted December 24, 2010 minamber; Oh it's definitely an issue. The Merit race does have its effects down the years, but on this topic...I can't say anything yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GunslingerV Posted December 24, 2010 Report Share Posted December 24, 2010 Gunslinger; Sure- although, those actions aren't entirely wasted- they will eventually cease to use them, as failures grow, and instead focus their energies in either Training or doing something else. The Students will cease to use Compete over time (until they Train well), and the net effect is a much slower Merit increase with much more Player effect- of interest to at least some of you... Interesting. I'd almost prefer they trained something else instead of competing all the time (grrr...Vernin & Mordivus). Personally, I'd like to see greater merit rewards from adventures & random events, and less from students competing everyday for merit. I might try playing around a little with and without the hotfix to see which dynamic I like better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buhumphrey Posted December 24, 2010 Report Share Posted December 24, 2010 Besides the compete problem I noticed a problem with Emilia's Gift. It is not giving Befriend parent skill +2 bonus again, altho this appeared to be fixed with patch 18, it's back with patch 19. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legate of Mineta Posted December 24, 2010 Report Share Posted December 24, 2010 buhumphrey; Hmm, I haven't seen that in our test games, but I will double check it again. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GunslingerV Posted December 24, 2010 Report Share Posted December 24, 2010 Besides the compete problem I noticed a problem with Emilia's Gift. It is not giving Befriend parent skill +2 bonus again, altho this appeared to be fixed with patch 18, it's back with patch 19. The bonus is working for me on patch 19. ...and I'm actually starting to enjoy the fact that merit scores are so low across the board. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legate of Mineta Posted December 24, 2010 Report Share Posted December 24, 2010 Gunslinger; Too late! The Content Patch will be up momentarily. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buhumphrey Posted December 24, 2010 Report Share Posted December 24, 2010 I actually like the game better without the 3 points for compete it gives me more time to work on my character instead of competing so much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legate of Mineta Posted December 24, 2010 Report Share Posted December 24, 2010 buhumphrey; It's an interesting experiment, that's for sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nyaa Posted December 24, 2010 Report Share Posted December 24, 2010 It's an interesting experiment, that's for sure. Anyway to make it as a option? I like to think the compete is difficult to pull it off and student are struggling with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legate of Mineta Posted December 24, 2010 Report Share Posted December 24, 2010 Nyaa; Unfortunately, no. Of course, you can always create a mod, but supporting dual contents for this would be...problematic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vieux chat Posted December 25, 2010 Report Share Posted December 25, 2010 Or maybe change how much points are earned when you fail ? If you succeed you only earn twice as much. I don't think it's rewarding for those who level up their compete skill. Why not 1 point if you fail and 1+3 points if you succeed ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legate of Mineta Posted December 25, 2010 Report Share Posted December 25, 2010 VC; It's not a bad suggestion- maybe 2+4? We'll see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schwarzbart Posted December 27, 2010 Report Share Posted December 27, 2010 Wasnt the New Familiy: Backgrounds Religious and the Graverober orginal planed that you can only chose one of them? I ask because when I select the Graverober I also could select the Religious on in CP 4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legate of Mineta Posted December 27, 2010 Report Share Posted December 27, 2010 Schwarzbart; That's almost certainly an oversight- I'll check. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schwarzbart Posted December 27, 2010 Report Share Posted December 27, 2010 With Piety 7 and Insight 3 I get the Cleanse and Remake Spell Displayed as green what sounds wrong to me because at the 9 Athonos I souldent have many hiden Bonus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legate of Mineta Posted December 27, 2010 Report Share Posted December 27, 2010 Schwarzbart; It's definitely not likely. We've noticed another one where the color-coding is off, and we're going to try to look at it for Patch 20. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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