Two things that I'd really like. No idea how easy or hard these are, if they're ridiculously hard, then apologies.
1) If you go to a page via a link from a room, you (the builder) can set a preference as to whether you want to show just the page text, or the text of the room that the page comes off. If on the other hand you go to a page via a cont. then there's no such choice. You will get the text of the room from which you've just come.
Would it be possible to have the option of showing the room text or not in the case of a cont. sending you to a page as well?
2)With memories, a lot of the things that people are going to want to remember are going to be two-valued. Secret door open or not. Puzzle solved or not. It's a bit of a waste using a memory for just one such boolean value, it's possible to fit many such booleans into one memory. Write the number in the memory in binary, use the n'th place in the binary to store. Standard trick. Except I don't think that there's a way we can do it at the moment, certainly not without a lot of fiddling.
Would it be possible to have contraptions to set, or unset, the n'th place in the boolean expansions, and contrivances to check it? That would make memories a lot more useful.
Two things that I'd really like. No idea how easy or hard these are, if they're ridiculously hard, then apologies.
1) If you go to a page via a link from a room, you (the builder) can set a preference as to whether you want to show just the page text, or the text of the room that the page comes off. If on the other hand you go to a page via a cont. then there's no such choice. You will get the text of the room from which you've just come.
Would it be possible to have the option of showing the room text or not in the case of a cont. sending you to a page as well?
2)With memories, a lot of the things that people are going to want to remember are going to be two-valued. Secret door open or not. Puzzle solved or not. It's a bit of a waste using a memory for just one such boolean value, it's possible to fit many such booleans into one memory. Write the number in the memory in binary, use the n'th place in the binary to store. Standard trick. Except I don't think that there's a way we can do it at the moment, certainly not without a lot of fiddling.
Would it be possible to have contraptions to set, or unset, the n'th place in the boolean expansions, and contrivances to check it? That would make memories a lot more useful.
Toggle/Count sounds perfect.
Okay, so if we make Memories able to store a number between 0 and 999,999, then that could mean that a Memory could count up to one shy of a million; or, it could mean that it could count to nine six times. A Contrivance that just checked the 1-6'th digit would do everything we need to make this work, since we can already increment or decrement by 1, 10, 100, 1,000, or 10,000 at a time via the existing Memory Increment Contraption.
This means I make six times less money out of Memories. :-/
(I guess I could make it a really rare Contrivance)
It could mean that you make more money instead, if somebody would have liked six different memories, but thought that paying out six times was too much and scrapped the whole idea, now they get a memory instead.
In my case, I was originally ideally hoping, for one (particularly memory intensive) part, to have 22 different 3-valued memories. I was never going to pay out for 22 different memories, but four is feasible.
I've been living like a spartan these last few weeks saving up here, you'll get a few squid from me at least.
To add a request for a feature I think'd be fantastic to have is multi-titled rooms depending on whether you're exploring, in the room, or returning. I have some rooms in my dwelling titled by an action rather than what the room is, such as "Head up the ladder". Would it be possible in Places to make that (head up the ladder) the title to click when exploring deeper, and have a different title, such as "The Living Room", when a player is physically in the room, AND have a possibly different action title for when a player is returning to the entrance from further through the building, such as either still "The Living Room" (because the IIsland character might remember which room it is) or "Exit the staircase"? I think this would be more fun to have for the exploration of Places instead of already knowing what room you're stepping into without having been in the place.
Also, as an add-on, perhaps if a player has already explored a dwelling, he or she might "remember" as a character, that they've already been into the Place, and therefore the exploratory action titles might be replaced by the name of the room; they remember which room they're entering.
I'm also really good at run-on sentences, if you can't tell.
It appears as though I may have lied. Such a feature may already exist, and I'm toying with it s'mmore
HaHAAAA! You can have ALL OF THOSE THINGS!
I'll be in my corner, now.
I'll be in my corner, now.
How long are we gonna do this meme? Isn't there, like, a statute of limitations where if you don't update your blog for half a year 'cause you're writing a book, that means you don't get to be a meme anymore?
Hey! I figured it out! I'm a winner!
Though to still be a bit of a newb, I can't figure out if its even possible or not, or how to do it with contraptions and contrivances (since I'm terrible at working them), but will it be possible to change a room's description with the weather or time of day? Also, will the trading of contraptions and contrivances be available?
This entire thing though, is AWESOME!!!!! Thanks for all the hard work you've put into it already, and keep it up!
I'll be in my corner, now.
...I can't figure out if its even possible or not, or how to do it with contraptions and contrivances (since I'm terrible at working them), but will it be possible to change a room's description with the weather or time of day?...
Is it possible that we could have, instead of a memory-chip that stores one value from 0-999,999, have a memory chip that has six* "addressees" in it that hold 0-9 with, say, addressess 0x4 and 0x5 being building-persistent instead of player-persistent? (Or instead of instead of, one of each type? ...that made sense, right...?)
Actually, optimally I'd like to see four different types of memory: Player-single, Player-six*, Dwelling-single, Dwelling-six*.
The problem I have with memory right now is that I'd love to use it, but I'm not going to have much use for a Player-single, even if we do get a contrivance that can read individual digits: the only things I'd use memory for are things that I want to affect all players: things like whether there's a fire burning, or a door is open, etc etc. And if I can only think of two or three superficial uses for a memory chip, I'm not going to buy one, especially at eight dollars a pop.
*six not a necessary number, I'm just using that for comparison: I'd even settle for as few as 3 slots at the current price.
Out of the edit timespan, but thought of something else:
While I'm at it, is it possible that we could get "miniboards", that couldn't be expanded and were only 1x2, for simple if-then statements, maybe at the cost of 5 for 100 points? I know that there are endless situations I'd use these in that I really wouldn't want to spend a dollar per on for a full board, but would gladly buy packs of like candy.
Tasty, zappy candy.
Not sure if this is exactly the right place to post this, but I was fiddling about on the Places test server and I was wondering if there might be some way to hide a Page's text after opening it, short of exiting and re-entering the room? If not, it'd be nice if clicking the link for a given page a second time hid the text. There's my two cents worth!
Is there a contraption at all to post something in Story / Banter?
If not, could there be?
The pie stand has always sort of had an NPC there running things, and with the contrivance to check text commands, I could actually have an NPC deliver ordered pies and whatnot to the counter.
I do realize this would somewhat step on Special Comments a bit.
Also, are there any plans to have some sort of way to rework contraptions and contrivances and whatnot? I spend my cigs, burn my stamina, and load up on items from the scrapyard, but it's always a bit disappointing when I'm looking for that one piece to build something awesome, and can't get it due to sheer bad luck.
I've already loaded up on SP to buy some cig packs for now, but it would just be nice if there were a way to say, turn in 5-10 contraptions / contrivances, and have them turned into the one you're looking for. Maybe some crazy robot pawn broker that grinds them all up and spits out a shiny new one for you? Even could have the rarer ones take more parts to build than the simple ones, but it's just not fun to spend a whole day's stamina and 10 cigs to get say a "Check Text Entered" and end up with a bag full of "Is Player Zombie?"
Okay, so if we make Memories able to store a number between 0 and 999,999, then that could mean that a Memory could count up to one shy of a million; or, it could mean that it could count to nine six times. A Contrivance that just checked the 1-6'th digit would do everything we need to make this work, since we can already increment or decrement by 1, 10, 100, 1,000, or 10,000 at a time via the existing Memory Increment Contraption.
This means I make six times less money out of Memories. :-/
(I guess I could make it a really rare Contrivance)
I realize it's a bit late for a request/suggestion, but could be possibly get the option to lump the explore/return links all under one heading?
I realize it's a bit late for a request/suggestion, but could be possibly get the option to lump the explore/return links all under one heading?
Okay, so if we make Memories able to store a number between 0 and 999,999, then that could mean that a Memory could count up to one shy of a million; or, it could mean that it could count to nine six times. A Contrivance that just checked the 1-6'th digit would do everything we need to make this work, since we can already increment or decrement by 1, 10, 100, 1,000, or 10,000 at a time via the existing Memory Increment Contraption.
This means I make six times less money out of Memories. :-/
(I guess I could make it a really rare Contrivance)
I've been fiddling on the test server and trying to figure out all this cool stuff that I can apparently now use. (And it is very cool.) It's taking a while to get resolved in my head because of the sheer amount of things that were never possible with the old system, but I'll get there someday.
Not requests, but just "I wonder if this can be done, and I'm just not seeing how to do it":
- Is it possible to get Pages and Doors to display under the same custom heading? I know you can put them all under "Explore this area", but can you do it with a different heading?
- Can you make a room display different text when you're passing through it on the way to the exit than when you're passing through in from the entrance? Or in other words, can the description be different when you're entering a room from Door A than when you enter from Door B?
The list of these will get longer as I do more fiddling and run into more confusion and have more silly questions. But anyways, this is all very fun!
Okay I've got one.
This would be for bigger Places, because that is a lot of scrolling.
Room Settings: How about a section near the top, have a little bar there that has all the
"Room ID 867-5309: (kudos if you caught that reference number. 
)
Chat:
Disable
Single
* Dual
Who's Nearby display is currently Enabled
Disable"
STUFF up there. It would, potentially, be like a select all of sorts.
So if you wanted all your rooms with single chat or with dual or Nearby disabled, you could do them all at once.
Of course, the individual rooms' preferences would override it, if, say, someone wanted something else than that, but with the majority of them in what they choose.
It's nothing big, but...maybe? I'm sure it could save a lot of scrolling for Dunbernarding and other such beeeeeg Places. 
just a thought!
How about a contrivance the checks the number of logged-in players in a room?
Another (re)request: add a nav link to Back To First Room by the Return To Map one, if possible, please.
That all seems like it'd be possible with the current system. Right now Memories apply to a player in a Place - not to a player in a Room in a Place. You can check the Memory from any Program.
The only thing is that each player would in effect have their "own" dial. Maybe someday soon I'll make a Place Memory that's the same for all players.
That all seems like it'd be possible with the current system. Right now Memories apply to a player in a Place - not to a player in a Room in a Place. You can check the Memory from any Program.
The only thing is that each player would in effect have their "own" dial. Maybe someday soon I'll make a Place Memory that's the same for all players.
I probably explained myself wrong.
Each memory's value is tied to a specific player.
Something which wasn't on the test-server.
Meaning that now, if Swede stores his item in the vault, he is the only one who can take it out.
I thought the Memories were each Memory is tied to a specific player?
Also: Is there a way to make something that'll output some sort of visual representation of the Place? Or do I have to do that by hand? It gets hard once you get into a dwelling even just the size of Hendrix...I've mostly been just rebuilding rooms and re-decorating them (For the most part, the Place is going to be pretty close to how the Dwelling was, with a few additions, mostly of Doors between areas that should have been linked before) and there's no indication, for instance, when building a Door, of what rooms are already linked by a door! This can lead to wasted wood/stam when you realize you've built a door that already exists! (I have done this, the second door actually doesn't DO ANYTHING...)
Oh, and also it'd be best to know which rooms are actually orphaned. i.e have no doors attached to them. That would probably be a bit easier to toss in a link under the main settings "List orphaned rooms"...
Also, can we set a default for all rooms re: chat settings and page nav? Or at least have the option to use Radio Buttons to select all the settings all at once and hit "save changes" at the bottom?
If I'd played with Placesbeta more, I'd probably have added these suggestions in the beta thread...
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