laclongquan Posted August 30, 2010 Report Share Posted August 30, 2010 Ooh, thats sounds fun! Can we have spells that cause damage (or mutation) if you fail the casting? And I vote we should have more permanent effect spells, so long as they still have a fixed duration to prevent exploitation of phemes. Consider the Astrology spell “Fill the Sky with Stars” which expands Art Appreciation and Playness by 1, and expands a relationship with someone. It has a duration of 8. Note that's Expand, not a temporary increase. Does anyone think thats overpowered? 'cause I don't. Whooooo, I want that spell. Never found it despite Astrology are my class both playthrough. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Obvious Posted August 30, 2010 Report Share Posted August 30, 2010 Nooooo! Random classes suck donkey's hoof. I hate to think of the number of reloads so that I can have some proper classes. I meant the classes that are put there initially. That way if you didn't want to pick all of your classes but still want a variety, you don't have to. But you'd still be able to pick your classes if you wanted to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legate of Mineta Posted August 30, 2010 Report Share Posted August 30, 2010 Laclongguan; Obvious is right- what I meant was when you choose a College, the extra Classes (the ones you can select yourself) just appear alphabetically. It would be a nice touch if these were random. You would continue to be able to change these electives to whatever you wanted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ggPlay Posted August 30, 2010 Report Share Posted August 30, 2010 Filters for selecting actions and abilities would be nice, it becomes a big mess once you have alot of them. Like Social for actions, abilities that change relationship, Expand Skills, Improve Skills, Stress Reduction and so on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schwarzbart Posted August 30, 2010 Report Share Posted August 30, 2010 Is it posible to adjust the difficulty of events in the progress of the year? Because at the start they are to difficult and if you get many of them especial with bad resoults like damage or skillpoint drainig it get frustrating. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legate of Mineta Posted August 30, 2010 Report Share Posted August 30, 2010 ggPlay; Filters have been requested, and we will try to implement them. We have some ideas to allow you to select from lists of the bigger Types in the game. Schwarzbart; This will (somewhat) be the case in Year 2, but almost certainly is not something we can implement in Year 1. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monteverdi Posted August 30, 2010 Report Share Posted August 30, 2010 Legate, not to pick nits, but shouldn't your topic under announcement entitled "Warning: Potential Issue with CP2, ...more information as it comes," refer to CP1, instead? I suspect most people will realize this, but some might be inclined to let reading the post slide because CP2 isn't due out for a while. Just a thought. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legate of Mineta Posted August 30, 2010 Report Share Posted August 30, 2010 Picking nits is extremely good. We don't this to become more confusing than it already is. Thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avatar Of Woe Posted August 30, 2010 Report Share Posted August 30, 2010 Whooooo, I want that spell. Never found it despite Astrology are my class both playthrough. Sorry, I didn't record how I unlock things on my first playthrough, but I *think* it's Astrology. I have 12 Astrology and 10 Planets, Stars and Theory, 8 Moons and 4 Comets, and it's not a Study Level (because I don't have that class). And I mis-reported before. It's actualy a 3 skill-step expand of Playfulness and Art Appreciation, 1 point towards a relationship of your choice, and a possible expand of Glory. All permanent. It can be cast once per day. I'll add it to the wiki at some point. Edit: Wiki is done: http://academagia.wikia.com/wiki/Fill_the_...ars_%28Spell%29 And another quick suggestion: Can you remove the action "Correspond" for characters with the Background: "Black Sheep", since it does nothing for them? Edit Edit: Another quickie: Could (or would) you remove all the locations from the action confirmation screen that don't have a passive ability? Except the Character's Room, of course. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schwarzbart Posted August 30, 2010 Report Share Posted August 30, 2010 Can you add the chance of discovery to Actions with fixed places? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legate of Mineta Posted August 30, 2010 Report Share Posted August 30, 2010 Woe; Both very good suggestions, the first I believe we can do in Content Patch 2. The second we'll look at. Schwarzbart; Assuming I understand you correctly, yes, you can. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schwarzbart Posted August 30, 2010 Report Share Posted August 30, 2010 Ok to say more exactly what I am asking. In the Confirmation Order Window it would be nice if we can see the chance of discovery at last for the ability with fixed location. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legate of Mineta Posted August 30, 2010 Report Share Posted August 30, 2010 Schwarzbart; Ah, now I understand- in that case, yes: we will look at it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schwarzbart Posted August 30, 2010 Report Share Posted August 30, 2010 I think its better that Befriend again have a prerequisit because now the NPCs form theyr own cliques right at the start and even force the player in theyr clique bevore he even got a chance to learn about clique. (In my game there are 9 cliques now at workshop days!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monteverdi Posted August 30, 2010 Report Share Posted August 30, 2010 I think its better that Befriend again have a prerequisit because now the NPCs form theyr own cliques right at the start and even force the player in theyr clique bevore he even got a chance to learn about clique.(In my game there are 9 cliques now at workshop days!) I agree with this--with this proviso: give it as something your character learns from having met and befriended their mentor. That way, students in general won't have it yet, but your character will. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schwarzbart Posted August 30, 2010 Report Share Posted August 30, 2010 A other idea is one have to have at last a Relationship of 5 or more to even have this npc on the list of befriend. This also will slow down this much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legate of Mineta Posted August 30, 2010 Report Share Posted August 30, 2010 We'll have to consider it- Monteverdi's and Schwarzbart's suggestions are good, but there are consequences to these as well. Of the two, Schwarzbart's suggestion may be the best in the interim, but it may too dramatically slow the rate of Clique building elsewhere. We'll have to test it. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wits Posted August 30, 2010 Report Share Posted August 30, 2010 A few thoughts I had: 1) I would suggest "gatekeeper events" for Year 2. In other words, if the player attempts to enter a location that she really isn't supposed to get into, pop a miniquest-like event that you have to pass in order to enter. "The Library of Forebodingness is surrounded by a thick fence. Fireball or Somersault?" If the player passes the check, don't pop that event again, rendering the location "normal". 2) This one seems so self-evident that it's probably an engine limitation, but it would be cool to have "storyific" ramifications to your actions. That is, if you insulted someone before, they could come and mess things up for you in a later adventure or event. The easiest way to implement this would probably be within adventures (linearity), and also in the time-bound events that come with the various festivals (do something in the first festival and have it haunt you in the last). Another possibility would be to have events that only trigger if you something previously. In such a setup, the responsive behavior would not be part of a "pre-existing" event (i.e. in doing this completely unrelated thing that you might have been doing anyway, you were hindered by a specter from the past), but simply a "surprise stage" of the same event (i.e. Yourina Nemeskos has trapped you into a pocked dimension! Maybe you shouldn't have summoned the homework-eating puppy into her bag after all!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draigh Posted August 30, 2010 Report Share Posted August 30, 2010 Well.. make Clique building possible on a slightly lower value, like 2 or 3. That seems to me a logical value, as you have to be friends, right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legate of Mineta Posted August 30, 2010 Report Share Posted August 30, 2010 Wits; Both are actually possible in Year One's engine- just so complex in permutation that except in a few instances we did not attempt it. Good suggestions, though- and homework eating puppy summoning spells *definitely* need to make an appearance in Gates. Draigh; That is actually not as easy to do as 5. We'll see what we can accomplish, however. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nightguard Posted August 31, 2010 Report Share Posted August 31, 2010 Here's something I don't believe has been mentioned yet, so I wanted to toss this out here. Has any thought been given to accessability features for this game? What I mean is, I have a friend that I would like to suggest this game to, but he is color blind (red/green, I think, but I don't remember for sure which type.) Given that the game presents significant information to the player based on the color of the text, this might make gameplay more difficult for him. Is it possible to have a mouseover for options in events/adventures that shows difficulty, much like the colors currently indicate? (possible scale being simple/easy/normal/challenging/difficult) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legate of Mineta Posted August 31, 2010 Report Share Posted August 31, 2010 nightguard; It's possible, and hasn't been suggested before. When we go into color-coding the Actions, we'll see if we can implement this simultaneously. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
academ4g1499 Posted August 31, 2010 Report Share Posted August 31, 2010 We'll have to consider it- Monteverdi's and Schwarzbart's suggestions are good, but there are consequences to these as well. Of the two, Schwarzbart's suggestion may be the best in the interim, but it may too dramatically slow the rate of Clique building elsewhere. We'll have to test it. Thanks! Perhaps slightly lower relationship value like 3-4 or so could work well enough? it seems not uncommon for relationships to be at 2+ just few days since the start of game. That actually reminds me. Would it be possible to include in the daily summary changes in relationship levels with other students? It's just they seem to develop silently and out of sudden there can be number of people on the list who have relationship of 3+ with player's character and with npc-related advntures active and referring to player as 'friend' even though you've never really heard about them or actively interacted with them in any manner. It can feel bit ... awkward. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legate of Mineta Posted August 31, 2010 Report Share Posted August 31, 2010 jc315; We plan to implement a Report for you, so can you see Relationships each day. It's an interesting thought, though, to have it record change. We'll see what we can do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
academ4g1499 Posted August 31, 2010 Report Share Posted August 31, 2010 We'll see what we can do. That'd be cool i'm thinking mainly, seeing a note how "relationship between X and yourself improved to Y" and whatnot could make it feel (by implication something happened that resulted in that change) that there's more things happening during the day. It's sort of like getting an additional positive (or negative) random event just without the event actually being spelt out with all its details, if it makes any sense. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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