Set up Screen, Wiki, Offtopic

Didn't do much last night except add a few more elements during a dull Castle and rather good John Stewart.

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The wiki team continues adding information adding TF to the team.

http://otherworlddev.wikia.com/wiki/Otherworld_Wiki

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The rest is completely off topic and probably been rephrased in my mind. Read only if your bored.

So I get a phone call at 9:45am this morning.

(ME) Hello?
(Charter) Hi, I'm BEEP with Charter Fraud is this BEEP I'm talking to.
(ME) Yah...
(Charter)We just wanted to let you know that last month you exceeded the download threshold last month.
(ME)What threshold?
(Charter)Well on October we sent out that there are new thresholds in the amount you can download. It seems that with your current account you can only download 100gb a month and you downloaded 793gb... (pauses) Do you download movies from Netflix or something similar. HD movies on Netflix can run 8gb.
(Okay so I found a new porn site last month and went a little insane but 100gb is ridiculously low. But hell if I'm going to tell Charter that I'm using bit torrent.)
(Me)Something like that, there's a threshold?
(Charter)Yes, we just started notifying customer this month, if you exceed it more then three months in a rolling 6 months, we can discontinue your service.
(ME)Isn't 100gp a bit too low.
(Charter)The average family only uses 25gb a month.
(Obviously except for the ones using Netflix... So that's how it is. Cable is $65 a month and Netflix is $7.99 but uses the same bandwidth.)
(ME)Isn't 100gp a bit too low?
(Charter)Well if you do upgrade your service we can increase the threshold up to 500gb... oh wait your area doesn't have that service. The max we can upgrade it to is 250gb.
(And I did 3x that in a single month!)
(ME)Can you send at least e-mails when I'm close to my threshold like cell phones.
(Charter)We don't have that as an option.
(ME)Okay upgrade me.
(Charter)Thank you for using Charter.

(Looks like quest is going to get a new customer soon.)

Daisy

Combat Effects, Combat Startup, Wiki Cont

So effects are in now that's why my party is drunk. Can't say I blame them. Effects don't do much yet but will need for poisoning and drunk etc. Not sure though about player and assistant effects if they will be persistent after combat or exploration. That makes all of the basic core parts of combat in place. Are they fleshed out, oh hell no, but core allows for testing... on to the next part.



The combat set up screen. I'm looking for ideas how to arrange it pretty cause its stumping me. Go check out this thread if you want to suggest your screen design.

Screen Set up

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The wiki is growing rapidly thanks to Redcape, Flagnine and A Wikia contributor. In one day they have put up a huge amount of information, pics, and are really fleshing it out. Thanks guys.

http://otherworlddev.wikia.com/wiki/Otherworld_Wiki

Wiki

Redcape has been good enough to start a wiki.

http://otherworlddev.wikia.com/wiki/Otherworld_Wiki

Not much there yet but then again its a wiki it depends on you actually adding content, go for it.

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Son of a Bitch... so somehow I deleted my build from last night so combat effects and the start of the Combat Setup screen gone. I'll re-write them tonight probably a bit faster, but still son of a bitch. I can't believe I made that mistake. But at least that is why I do daily back ups.

Daisy

New Signature

New Signature, yah, I got nothing really to talk about..

Items are up and running, Yay! Simple drag and drop it where you want it, 1 item per a turn. Bamm! Had to make special effect versions of each item for combat (expendable items only), to make them a little more combat ready. Tonight is displaying effects, and some combat effects. If I have time the interface before combat (select girls, select assistants, select items.)

Thats about it.

Daisy

Let them eat cake!

So obviously working on items. A nice simple drag and drop system, you can drop on the sprite or the character info. All thats in place the actual removing of the items not so much. Also have to figure out a system to allow items to be much more powerful in combat then they are in day to day operations about 3x I think. Still need to also make an interface to choose items to take with you into combat, and an interface to choose assistant and slaves. Over all slowly but steadly getting there.



Redcape has continued to create some of the cutest little sprites for combat. Lonewolf created Sakura and Yoruichi for his girls. And I wanted to thank both of them for making up for my lack of artistic skill.



Daisy

Maze Editor

Got the Maze Editor up for making maps for scripted events... not sure exactly when there will be scripted events but I have a map editor for it! Will post it on the board so everyone can play with it. Right now there are only a few tiles but that will change, probably with people suggestions. I did take the recursion out of it, since isn't really needed for a maze editor.

Maze Editor Thread

Download it:

MediaFire

Daisy

Troubles Running Otherworld

So I'm getting more and more reports of people unable to open Otherworld. Which shocks me a bit because it should be click and go. So I'm asking everyone who has trouble running Otherworld to try the work arounds in this thread.

http://www.otherworldtoday.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=104

If none of these work please post your system info and OS so I can try to track around what type of OS it is not working on, browser etc. I test it personally on Vista and XPS3 but obviously there are dozens of different configurations. And if we get a list of what its not working on I can find a work around and better solutions in a text file with Otherworld Downloads.

Please don't post to this blog but to the thread on this issue.

Daisy