Stealth problems revisited

[xyzzy]

Re: unable to exit stealth mode.

I've posted about this at other times, but I believe I've found out why this happens - well not exactly why, but what circumstances lead up to it happening. When learning a new skill - say tailoring. if Pooka picks up the skill certificate and lore book using 'z' , she sometimes falls over (and quickly stands up again). The next time stealth is used, a message saying "you may not cancel a learning attempt" when the cancel stealth button is clicked. I've verified this on a number of occasions. So now, I always save immediately after completing training, but before I attempt to pick up the items.

Is there any *technical* reason for this, or is it yet another DS bug?

Having said that, I am about to complete MW for the third time, and I am continually surprised at the new things I keep discovering. Xaa, if you plan to develop other games, I'll happily pay for them Thanks for your great work!

[Liantedan]

I'm not sure how relevant this is, but Pooka falls down when you press "z" after training, because you interrupt the animation of learning it. You should just wait for her to stand up and get back to her "ready stance". If she has any weapons equipped, you can easily tell when that is, because they'll appear back in her hands as soon as the "learning" animation ends. If you press "z" after that, she should just pick it up without falling, and you haven't interrupted the animation, thus she cannot get stuck in "learn stuff mode".

"Patience, young warrior"

I too have told Xaa before that I'd gladly pay for his games. His usual reply thus far has been "buy a book". The only problem now is, I already own them all... Currently, I'm working on getting other people to read his books. Bought a few of them for people's birthdays, too. Xaa once told me he thinks us buying his books is reward enough for him, but I'm still not sure how we could thank him for his books if we buy the books to thank him for the games...

[Kilarin]

I'm still not sure how we could thank him for his books if we buy the books to thank him for the games...

I think there are two main ways to thank an author besides buying their books. You've already mentioned one, introduce OTHERS to their books! But also, I think authors really enjoy having people discuss their books. So I feel that posting messages here discussing Xaa's books is another way of saying thank you.

But I'm still hoping to see Xaa produce a commercial game some day!
There are several projects out there now working on open source or low cost gaming platforms with the aim of letting others use the platform to produce games for profit.
I've got high hopes for multiverse.net/index.html.
And www.glest.org/en/index.php looks promising. (I THINK the glest license would allow you to sell your mod/map, as long as the game itself was not charged for)
And the Java Classic RPG project (javacrpg.sourceforge.net/) keeps making progress. It's really got some possibilities in my opinion.

So, I'm still hoping that someday there will be a really good gaming platform designed with the INTENTION that modders/storytellers would use it to create content that can then be shared or even sold. I think we'll get there. eventually...

[xyzzy]

Hi Liantedan - thanks for that - you learn something new each day