New stable release! [Alectormancy+2]

Post by **Bob the Hamster** » Wed Aug 01, 2012 8:24 pm

Oh, I did cram those fixes into Alectormancy+1 in spite of saying that I wouldn't

Which isn't to say there aren't any other things that need to be fixed in the Distribute Game menu, just nothing critical that I can think of right now :)

msw188 · Post by **msw188** » Sat Aug 04, 2012 9:21 pm

I've got a (very) minor problem - there seems to be some inconsistency as to when empty spell lists appear or not in the hero's spells menu (as accessed from the main menu). It appears that:

If both the spell list AND the spell list name are empty, then the spell list doesn't appear.

If the spell list is empty but the spell list name is not, then 'sometimes' it will appear in the menu, sometimes it will not. Here's the situation - in Tales2, I've got three heroes running around, and the first two have the empty spell list 'Items' appear, but the last one does not (although this third hero DOES have such an empty spell list which gets populated and works correctly in battle).
I tried to make a simple test case with only one hero, but it seems in such a case that the empty spell list ALWAYS appears as long as it has been named. Not sure what to make of this. Has anyone else seen any similar behavior?

EDIT: Also I can confirm that there is some kind of music bug still running around, and I am on Windows7. I can't reproduce it, but once when quitting and then restarting a save file, all of the music in-game stopped playing. However, the music on the save-file choosing screen still played correctly. MYSTERIES

Post by **Bob the Hamster** » Sat Aug 04, 2012 9:59 pm

There is a hero bitset named "Don't show spell lists if empty" check and see whether it is on for your heroes.

The music stopping is interesting. My guess that it is the same music crash that we have been unable to fix for a long time, and that Windows 7 is just cleanly killing the music thread, instead of crashing the whole program like Windows XP does (just a guess)

msw188 · Post by **msw188** » Sat Aug 04, 2012 10:38 pm

OOPS I have no idea why I had that bitset on for one hero and not for the other two. I am clearly a bad slime.

One time using Alectormancy (but before upgrading to +1 or +2) the game did crash after the music stopped (not right away, but after a few more keypresses).

msw188 · Post by **msw188** » Sun Aug 05, 2012 7:23 pm

Whoa, here's a weird one! It seems that if you have a text box that is set to go to an inn that costs $x, and then the player declines to pay, they get their HP and MP restored anyways, but for free! How awesome would it be if I could stay at a hotel for free by declining to stay?

Meowskivich · Post by **Meowskivich** » Tue Sep 04, 2012 10:48 pm

I figure this is probably the best place to put it without starting a wacky new thread, but James, sir, I have a possible bug to report.

I am editing my shops, going through and adjusting items, you know, the norm, and then when I go to change my item (say, it's item 117, a shield) and when I press down to highlight the item number it will then snap the number to 59. Only 59. I've no idea why, but this kinda bugs me as it's making something that should only be taking all of two seconds take about 5 seconds instead.

Also, just tested it again, it only happens once per time I enter that menu and on the first item I highlight the number of. So yar. -Meow of the skivich

edit: Okay, this doesn't seem to happen in EVERY shop, only the ones I have heros for hire in. if that can help devise some strange conclusion.

Fenrir-Lunaris · Post by **Fenrir-Lunaris** » Wed Sep 05, 2012 4:44 am

msw188 wrote:Whoa, here's a weird one! It seems that if you have a text box that is set to go to an inn that costs $x, and then the player declines to pay, they get their HP and MP restored anyways, but for free! How awesome would it be if I could stay at a hotel for free by declining to stay?

Hey! Haven't I seen this bug before?

Oh God, Zombie bug

FnrrfYgmSchnish · Post by **FnrrfYgmSchnish** » Wed Sep 05, 2012 1:51 pm

Speaking of shop bugs--I don't know it's been fixed in one of the + versions, but in regular Alectormancy I noticed that the first item in a shop tends to randomly jump back to its default item name (rather than a possibly-longer name; "Short Sword" turning into just "Short" with the sword icon, for example) when you open the shop again after setting up the items.

Post by **Bob the Hamster** » Wed Sep 05, 2012 3:17 pm

@msw188: thanks for reporting that! I was able to fix it, and the fix will be in the nightlies.

@Meowskivich: thanks for the report! Looks like hero id limits were being applied to the item id number. I have fixed it for the nightly.

@Fenrir-Lunaris: I think you are right. The inn code is called from two possible places, directly from a textbox, and from a shop. I think the bug used to apply to both, but was only fixed for the shop. I fixed it for the textbox too.

@FnrrfYgmSchnish: Thank you very much for mention this! I had never noticed because I never rename my shop stuff-- and if you had not mentioned this, my fix for the bug Meowskovitch reported would have made this happen to all stuff, not just the first in the list. So this bug is now fixed for the nightlies too.

I am having a productive morning thanks to you all :)

Meowskivich · Post by **Meowskivich** » Wed Sep 05, 2012 4:22 pm

Grand and dandy, silly bugs hath been smote, and one awaits the next version release in which to peacefully make my way around my game.

I would have just hit a like button for the above post if there was one. I always wish I had one for forums, but never do I use it for facebook...of course, nobody really posts anything I like on there, so...