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Interesting topic, the 1/4th party run.

When I was young and scared of mummies, my Dad impressed us by playing with only 1 character, and on top of that, it was one with very little mana! (He played almost pure spellcaster style.) So when I learned that some items gave you a bit of mana, and later ...

Hey, can someone point me to where I can download the original CSB graphics.dat? I'm specifically looking for the Deth Knight image (not animated armour). I can't seem to find it on my computer. I use CSBwin and ADGE, btw.

Wow. This is great. *speechless*

Threaten you? I know not of what you speak. Seriously, I don't expect you to rework the code. If you do, I will think you rather generous with your time. (Not that I wouldn't appreciate it.)

Ok, I get the point. I guess we'll just have to be careful when building dungeons, since any mechanic based on that might fail every 100th or 1000th time. It makes me nervous that we can have bugs that are so debug-proof, but if the dungeon designers are careful they can avoid them. No need to go ...

Ok, I tried it out. I made two pressure pads, pad1 and pad2, that were on adjacent squares. A teleporter was turned off when you stepped off of pad1, but the same teleporter was turned on when you stepped onto pad2. No matter how many times I tried stepping directly from pad1 to pad2, I couldn't get ...

Aha! That is a good idea for a test, zoom. Have we discovered a new way to get pseudo-randomness? An item is teleported from one pad to another, thus triggering both pads at once, which set/clear the same teleporter and thus randomly move or not move item2 onto some more pads.

Not that monster ...

Floor Switches:

For example, having a signal when target leaves signal on the previous square should trigger a second before the second trigger.

Mind if I nominate this for the "most obfuscated sentence" award? I think I sort of understand, but I'm glad you put it simply in the next sentence ...

Aha, I solved it! I just trigger a "shop check" every tick that you stand in front of the alcove. There must be a lot of overhead, calculating the shop every tick, but then you step off and the AND/OR feedback loop I created is stopped. It works great, and it will even let me have multiple types of ...

Aah! I've hit a snag. How do I make an alcove trigger something whenever a specific item is removed? I can only get it to detect when the last item is removed. Would it be very complicated to make it trigger on any removal?

I'm finding it very hard to put multiple consumables in my shop, even if I ...

Hmm. So you are saying that two pads in a certain "physical" order on the same square are not guaranteed to trigger in the same order every time? I ask that specifically because I think I have relied on that sort of same-source ordering in the past.

I am guessing that you will say: it works now ...

Yeah, Paul's right; who cares about the older version. But I'm glad to know that it didn't work because of the addition of global variable access.

So, I'm working on a way now to allow the selling of consumables. Problem is, the shop can't say, "you break it, you buy it," because what if they don't ...

Well, this all makes sense considering that the Display Window DSA has the same state 15 as the Lost and Found DSA: S0 = GV14@ C0 = GV14!

These commands must not be working properly in the older version of CSBwin. I wouldn't know where to start on that, and anyway, it's already fixed in the later ...

Well, the shop works fine when I use the later version of CSBwin! Hooray!

But I am curious a bit to know what went wrong. beowuuf said to check the state and row specified in the error. Well, state 1 has plenty of stuff in its rows, but I don't see a row 15. There are only SCT 1-4 = 12 rows.

Hey ...

Thanks, I'll try upgrading my version. I was using 9.8v72, whereas the demo that worked was 10.010. That might be the only problem. I'll let you know in maybe 15 hours. I hope the newer version I use is backwards compatible enough. My CSBuild is 2.51; it could probably use an upgrade as well.

You probably don't remember these DSA's all that well, Paul, since it has been a while. I'm trying now to make a shop, but I keep getting these errors when I first step on the exit pad.

"Warning:
Unknown DSA command code
DSA at 0(12,27)
Row=15;Col=1"

"Warning:
Unknown DSA command code
DSA at 0 ...

I tried the little game but I can't seem to get anywhere. There are about 3 'exits' that I can't seem to use. I can "ignore", "follow", or "kill", for example, but when I press enter nothing happens. I guess it's just unfinished, eh?

Trying to populate the list of Custom Dungeons? I don't really want it up there with just Conflux III to hang out with!

Thanks beowuuf!

I'll start another thread to announce/discuss the release. See http://www.dungeon-master.com/forum/vie ... 9994#89994

Ok, I'm ready to give out this unfinished dungeon. But I can't seem to figure out how to upload it on the Encyclopaedia. I don't seem to have an account, and I can't figure out how to get one. A little help? My file, zipped is 520 KB, but I could remove the executable to get it to 240, if necessary.

Yeah, ok. But don't try to change my mind. The truth is, I'm not good at stopping the games once I've started. When I get into them for a while, they start to mess with my life, in various ways, such as lack of sleep from staying up too late. I consider excessive game-playing to be a real addiction.

hmm. I've always thought something like this should be done. Just remember to leave some bits intact so that it still feels like DM. IMHO, the key is to make it appeal to those who have played DM over and over again for its classic-ness, but find it too easy now. Where they would expect to solve a ...

All right, I promise not to drop it completely (at the very least not forever). I'll either finish it, probably quickly and roughly, or I'll give it to the community as is, to do with as you will. I have three ideas I want to implement, but like I said, I'm sworn off computer games. I'll just have ...

I guess it has been almost three years since I made my first dungeon, "Traps and Monsters," to get some dungeon-making practice. Since then, I've done some work on another, larger dungeon, called "Shadow Shepherd," but I don't have the time anymore to finish it. (I had a couple great ideas too ...

Hmm. Sounds like you have a case of party poltergeist. Your dead hero has come back as a spirit to make sure you take good care of his items.

1.37 mil after 5-6 plays. How is 2 mil even possible? Lots of purples?

So frustrating until I got things rolling. Solved in about 50 min. Then played again and solved in 2 min. Without calling anyone.

Thank you, now I think I understand. I think I like predictability, so I'll just let the engine block the extra messages. My tests probably would have worked differently if I had changed that global setting first.

I still don't understand what kind of messages we're referring to. I've done a test to illustrate my point, but if it is the wrong one let me know.

I put two teleporters pointing to eachother. Inactive, visible. One has apple.

Two pressure pads on top of eachother: 1st sets a teleporter, 2nd ...

Now I see why the one was just an edit. It's because it was sent to the same location, right? should be easy to fix.

You cannot expect timers to be delivered in the same order you create them
Timers that expire in a single tick of the
clock are delivered in arbitrary order

I don't know much ...