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Other Announcements / Roguelike Magazine finally dead?

« on: October 01, 2007, 12:14:44 AM »

Hi,

what's going on with Roguelike Magazine? The third issue was supposed to come out in May. What a pity. I've liked it so far.

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Traditional Roguelikes (Turn-based) / Re: Hive Awakening - what's a relay socket?

« on: July 17, 2007, 01:38:21 PM »

Sorry for my misunderstanding. I didn't realize the fact that only sockets in the same circuit can be linked.

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Early Dev / Re: Tower

« on: July 16, 2007, 11:49:22 PM »

I don't know... actually it seems that the s key doesn't do anything. There's never a message coming up no matter where I search.

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Early Dev / Re: Tower

« on: July 16, 2007, 02:39:07 PM »

You feel nauseous and therefore end up vomiting after eating bad, rotten or cursed food. Note that food like fruits, vegetables and meat spoil quickly. Although the manual says you can, I don't know how to preserve such food without a freeze dryer.

The food rations you get from the beginning are usually good but some rations you find in the tower may be bad. That's my experience. As far as I see there's no way to tell the quality of the food. That's a big problem I have with the game. You don't get detailed information about the items you carry. You can't even tell which weapon is better than the one you're wielding.

Lately I had a weird situation. I read an unknown scroll when suddenly my flaming whip stuck to my hand. There seemed to be no way to unstuck it so I couldn't use anything else. The main problem with that was that there were only dead ends and not able to use the pick axe I couldn't go on.

In another game when I played a barbarian without a pick axe yet again a dead end appeared. How are you suposed to play on when such things happen?

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Traditional Roguelikes (Turn-based) / Re: Hive Awakening - what's a relay socket?

« on: July 16, 2007, 10:17:26 AM »

I've received an answer from the author. It actually is very easy. The "socket relay" does exactly what the name says. It relays one socket from a circuit to another socket in the next circuit. What is that good for? Well, you don't need a "socket splitter" anymore (which is very rare) to use a 3-plug-equipment. A "socket relay" plus a "socket fork" is enough.

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Traditional Roguelikes (Turn-based) / Re: Hive Awakening - what's a relay socket?

« on: July 13, 2007, 11:13:10 PM »

I think it is a level 1 version of fork (level 2) and splitter (level 3), and it is (almost) useless.

It that were true it would be useless indeed.

(Maybe you could use one if you have only one fork and want to use something which needs three sockets on the same circuit.)

That doesn't work because the relay thing gives you only one socket. If you have equipment that needs 2 or 3 sockets just link them with socket links. I asked the author about it but haven't received a reply yet.

Well anyway I finished the game just a few hours ago without using a relay socket. So obviously it's not necessary but nevertheless I'd like to know what it's good for.

The game has much potential but needs more detail, more features and better balancing. The start can be very hard while later on the game gets too easy with more sockets and equipment. I think it would be cool if the game took some inspiration from good old Paradroid (C64, Amiga) like hacking into enemy robots and taking them over.

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Traditional Roguelikes (Turn-based) / Re: Hive Awakening - what's a relay socket?

« on: July 13, 2007, 03:43:30 PM »

Sockets are joined by using a "socket link". So that "relay socket" thing must still be something different.

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Early Dev / Re: Tower

« on: July 13, 2007, 10:30:46 AM »

There's a new version out with many new features and bugfixes!
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=187705

Say, did someone manage to build anything, yet?

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Traditional Roguelikes (Turn-based) / Hive Awakening - what's a relay socket?

« on: July 13, 2007, 10:25:21 AM »

Hi,

I'm playing HA and quite like it. The circuit/sockets equipment interface is cool. Now I know what forks, splinters and links are good for. But what the heck is a relay socket? It occupies one socket while providing another one. Maybe I just didn't find out how to use it. Help, please.