February Podcast Questions

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February Podcast Questions

Kinak 23 Feb 2016 21:33

Well, with Oldtown fully rolled out, it's probably about time to start answering some new questions :)

So, if you've got some questions, post 'em here and I'll podcast some answers!

As always, try to keep your questions to-the-point and try not to answer other people's questions.

Cheers!
Kinak

Re: February Podcast Questions

bigalphillips 23 Feb 2016 23:55

Thanks in advance for the podcast Kinak! How are things? Can we get a general status up date on life, game development, etc?

1. Will we see a new prize for the top run of each season in Oldtown? I've collected a fair number of Coins of the Seasons now.

2. What's the deal with the Omnitech BigDig? Is it currently possible to "usefully" hack it? I can't figure out how to drive it.

3. On Dr. Thomas's quest to distribute Eclipse, can we offer a crate to Zack? I feel like he would be a good customer.

4. The new foreign shark in the records office doesn't seem to have any drops, but the one in the lake gives special results with sashimi knife or salvaging tools equipped. Is that an oversight or a particularity of the way Eclipse works?

5. Is there any way to successfully explore the new Sudden Darkness in the records office?

6. It's still early in the Oldtown contest but I've found myself using cyberware on all of my runs so far — which makes me wonder if a cyberless conduct is out there or coming soon?

7. I found a new technique from Mirror Gazing recently (Inhuman Strength) - is there much more unique stuff out there to find from Mirror Gazing?

8. Lastly, in general, how do you feel about suggestions for new results from Mirror Gazing? There were a few opponents that were pretty hard to test but didn't have any special results — but I guess they can't all be special. (The painted sky, the phoenix, the hammer, etc.)

Thanks!

Last edited on 29 Feb 2016 17:21 by bigalphillips Show more

Re: February Podcast Questions

Cryptodynamic 24 Feb 2016 05:10

Heya Kinak! Hope things are going well, glad to see things are rolling forward.

Since it's the first podcast of 2016, I suppose it's time to carry forward the tradition of the annual spading round up with the unearthly items from 2015.

• costume crown - It feels like we've got a pretty good handle on this, except for the specifics of what's happening when you 'use' the coronation crown. Anything that we might have missed while plotting to murder one another?
• ferry coin - Between Offer Passage, Watery Passage, Prepared Coin and healing back from a loss it feels like we've probably found a good chunk of the content here, but we're still missing some things on specific mechanics. Would you be willing to share if it's possible to control, or at least determine in advance, whether you'll get Offer Passage, Prepared Coin, or some healing on a loss?
• classic writing desk - Definitely still some mysteries here. It seems like we've got a handle on controlling the fiction effect you get, and on the writing you generate. It's possible there may be some specifics to the latter we don't quite get that would help with juggling multiple effects, though. The big thing, however, is the Think Harder option with both a fiction and a story effect active, where we haven't made much progress. Care to offer any hints?
• dueling jacket - What we've found seems to make this a perfectly solid item, particularly in a reset context. For my curiosity here, perhaps I'll ask in a roundabout way, so you can answer without giving too much directly away. Are there any avatars related to 1 coin unearthly items?
• ecofuel flamethrower - Fills a niche fairly well, has a number of techniques and we've found an avatar from it. As a 2 coin item though, I can't help but wonder if there's something else in there that we've just completely missed so far.
• tactical goggles - I feel like we may be missing something here. Another recipe, maybe?
• Trick or Treat - We've got a usable approach for dealing with this item, although lacking in some details and probably not entirely correct. But we don't understand how one gets a rubber mask, there's still some items missing, and I'm convinced there must be an avatar here, somehow. Are the missing items similar to the Harvester library, where you need to do specific types of things between Harvester visits to get them?

And a few other questions as well:

• It came up in chat, so I was wondering if you'd had any additional thoughts on a 'pet' system. It feels like the Mushroom Ally effect and maybe the SDnano technique were experiments, but I'm curious if you've had any more recent ideas.
• Also on the topic of old ideas, do you still think custom player titles will be a thing at some point?

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Re: February Podcast Questions

Plus4 24 Feb 2016 16:02

Hi,

• While collecting the Fangs' debt, if the Dock Chat encounter ends up in a fight (instead of a straight drop), does the credits dropped by the opponents still count towards the completion of the quest?
• In the Everyday Disco encounter, with spooky music playing, I wanted to start a fight. However, even with 28 reflexes, the opponent ran. Is it possible to catch them?
• In the same encounter, heavy music + clubbing outfit yields 2 opponents. With harsh music + punk outfit, there's still only one punk. Is it possible to fight two?
• Thanks for the hint about the Unreal Drip. My gut feeling that this is somehow related to the Dying Artist. If not, could we please have another vague hint?

Re: February Podcast Questions

Arkaim 27 Feb 2016 09:44

Hey Kinak good to see ya.

• Never followed up on this. Puyo doing better now?

• Did you ever manage to do beach related things? You don't have to answer if you don't want to.

Okay other questions now.

• We've got even more poetry stuff now. So much poetry stuff. A suspicious amount of poetry stuff. How deep does the poetry hole go and is there something shiny at the end? Is the poetry hole like that cave you mentioned that unreal drip is hiding in?

• Classic Writing Desk. No one really gets how it works. I can work down energy of Speculative Fiction and Technical Story from 20 -> 1 and have him say the stories ideas kicking don't amount to much. Work down energy of the previous Fiction and Story from 60 to 4 doing nothing but hacking in the Happy Hour, the Computer Lab, and then the Tainted Shoreline and have him say "It's all wrong! Poor timing! Confused prose!". Then try again with Fantastic Fiction and [[[Technical Writing]] and have him say the exact same thing. What is going oooon??? Any hints.

• There's a bit of weirdness with the Classic Writing Desk. You have to get a bunch of etheric at once if you want to leverage your Fiction effect into one of the stories. But, since you'll always be etheric, especially when going on a writing binge, you'll always have Incoherent Writing tainting your writing pool. This seems off. As it seems you need a lot of energy of effect to do something which means a lot of etheric. Is this how this really works?

• A different unearthly. The Shifty Maze. It's kind of crazy with the number of mobs at the lower levels. Maybe take a page out of other infinite dungeon playbooks when they need stronger mobs and do the palette swap? You know the rat you're fighting is the real deal when he's hazel instead of brown.

Yet other questions.

• Lots of Candy Crush and that one castle building game on smart phones these days. Less webcomics and Newsgrounds. How's that Metroplexity mobile port going? Seems like the best bet for growing the audience. We can all go and give it 5 stars!

• You have naysayers. Those who say mobile Metroplexity can't be done. Their biggest nitpick is how inventory management would work on mobile. I have thought on this. Have you looked at how other mobile games do inventory management? Kim Kardashian Hollywood seems to have a good system worked out. What are your thoughts on it?

Yet more questions even questioninger than the last!

• How many sites did people end up infecting in the infection hay day? I've been patching week after week after week and there's always more! Always! It's actually kind of unbelievable.

• When no one has been hacking for a while, you can "activate" a couple sites such that the university crosslinks only point to a few sites. Very helpful when one of those sites has goodies! What tends to happen once you hack for a while, though, is that a bunch of trash sites get activated and added to the crosslinks pool. Making crosslinks a rather poor resource. Is there a way to "deactivate" those trash sites? Deleting all their routines doesn't seem to do the trick.

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Re: February Podcast Questions

GoldS 28 Feb 2016 20:41

Skills 65-67 and 72&73 were previously stated to be unobtainable. Are they now obtainable with the Oldtown skills update?

Are skills 88 & 89 obtainable?

Is the unstable draught supposed to be listed as a chemistry component?

The Glittering Ecofuel technique doesn't seem to do anything special compared to most of the other Ecofuel techniques. Is there something we're missing with this?

What would you think of Lattes! serving special holiday offerings like gingerbread lattes?

The vigilante recording says that the big guns of the Third Eye are in Oldtown, but I don't think we've seen any activity there yet. Are they hiding out somewhere?

Last edited on 29 Feb 2016 01:07 by GoldS Show more

Re: February Podcast Questions

Kinak 29 Feb 2016 21:19

/em flips *ON AIR* light.

Cheers!
Kinak