Stuck in the same way ... you can re-strart without discarding the quest. Just talk to the tax collector about taxes again.

*edit*

Just realized that you will get stuck at H due to certain steps taken to prevent playing from taking advantage of an exploit to get gold ingots.  Still don't recommend discarding the quest though. You might not be able to get the quest again for some time.

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Quote from: pedenel on March 06, 2007, 05:51:03 pm

I would like to highlight though, in the other game, mining rate was consistent for every player that was sent to the mine. This should similarly be applied if this is implemented in PS. In other words, the mining skill of that character is ignored and a default mining skill level  applied for all prisoners. Otherwise, the level of punishment would differ depending on mining skill level.

This is impossible because of realism reasons.

In that case, throw out the mining idea as a way to speed up time of release and just stick to the absolute time spent in incarceration.  A player with max stats/skills would spend less time in incarceration for the same crime as someone who does not have comparable stats/skills.

Think TomT means practice points and not progression points.

If he did mean progression points, then I now understand why he said it is possible to have a pure craftsman character now (or at least that how I interpreted what he said in his earlier post).

For the record, John80sk is correct - you do NOT get progression points when using those skills only practice points.

I'd guess that e.g. in the midst of a battle between A & B you'd suddenly get a message saying "C has attacked A" and you get an additional participant in the rounds.

However, if you had a general melee going on where A, B and C were fighting and D attacks A, E attacks B, etc, etc I think the sequential turn mode may have problem re-prioritising the whose turns it should be next.

Finally got round to testing the change in the crafting system and I fully understand Eila's points on how much more difficult it has become. However, I do realize that it is desirable to make the crafting of high quality weapons and items difficult to avoid swamping the markets.

Nonetheless, I have just one query for the Dev team. Are there further planned changes that will make it possible for a player to have a pure craftsman character? A character that does not need to learn combat, magic, mining or metallurgy skills to be a pure craftsman?  This would apply to future crafts to be introduced as well.

By changes, I specifically mean changes that will allow a budding craftsman to buy materials either from the market or NPCs and produce a saleable product at a profit at all levels.

Bugzilla looks more familiar which could lessen familiarisation time and it uses MySQL which is good for this project right?

Point taken given the mechanics you outlined but if instead of attack high/mid/low, etc the mechanics allow the players to choose slightly broader actions will make it less of a russian roulette.

e.g. using the example you provided

Player A, initiating the combat sequence and locking both player A and B in the combat mode.
Player A chooses to charge opponent swinging sword/use shield bash (no action points left)
Player B chooses to raise his shield and hunkers down behind it (some of AP left)

Resolution:
Player A STR stat+ modifier rushing; Player B STR stat : rolls Player A fails, Player B has AP remaining and rolls for a counter-strike, Player B  succeed, roll success/failure; damage 50% less due to counter.

Players A & B then choose their next moves
So on and so forth till there is a winner.


What I'm trying to get at is that options involving broader actions with simultaneous turns rather than a specific attack/defence to a particular area could enhance the enjoyment of the this combat model as opposed to what I would describe, in an overly simplistic manner, a game of rock, paper & scissors.

My assumption here is that there will be no challenge and acceptance such as in the current dueling system.  Any formal duels will be prefaced by discussion between players at which point they will take positions within a certain distance of each other and combat would be initiated by one party or the other.

Anyhow, just my 2 cents

With respect to bilbous' comment about time, I'm assuming there will be a timer and each round will not be longer than 1 minute perhaps even less.