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	Message: : Just gathering this all into one thread so it's easier for me to address - : I know about the floating hunters, I tried fixing it in Mk II and it caused : some weird bug with Forge (but not with Aleph, oddly enough), so I : reverted them. It'll take some work to get that figured out. : Regarding the redo of level 4 and it's relation to branching timelines, as : Steve said already (in much simpler words) I rather like the realism of : having the time split actually happen due to player actions, and not some : forced nearly-identical copy levels. I'll try to make it beatable on TC : with monster impassible polys. Also, John said that unskilled players : might get sick of not beating the timer on L4 and just retry L4 until they : get it - that's always what I imagined they would do, and why inititally : there was only a pattern buffer at the start, not the end. The level was a : one-through shot, you either beat the clock or not, and if not and you : don't want to reply the failure branch, then try again. But it see that it : should be easier to beat it on higher difficulty levels than it is now, : though as someone else said, I don't want a repeat of "Hairy : Legs", where everybody who plays on lower difficulties can just : breeze through it the first time. I think the fact that the time limit is : not emphasized will discourage that though, and players the second time : through WILL realize that there is a time limit... if only they can beat : it. : As far as Level 5, etc goes, I'm glad that you guys do actually like it. I : was starting to feel bad for poor Bill who built the thing, cause all it's : been getting was negative feedback. For the record I do like the : architecture and design of it but it seems everybody hated it for the : random platform triggers, and that drove me nuts too. So I was going to : eventually have it scrapped and replaced with a modification of Adam's : bridge level concept, which is logically where this : "transponder" thing would be located anyway. But if you guys do : like it other than the platform triggers and the other assorted bugs that : John mentioned, then that's good, it will save a lot of reconstruction. : Regarding the rearrangement of levels 5, 6, and 9, and Adam's bridge level : thing, I really want Durandal and Tycho's physical cores to look the same, : as they are both Marathon AI cores and thus would be nearly identical. : Only the areas around them should differ. So that rules out making : "Un-Wired" into Durandal's core. However, I do like Adam's : bridge level idea, and I agree that Level 9 needs some serious work, even : so far as scrapping everything outside the core itself. So what do you all : think of this plan: Level 5 remains "Un-Wired", with changes as : suggested here. : Level 6 is still Durandal's core, BUT, it's a "new" level, taking : just the core design and building the area around it differently. What I'm : thinking is, Durandal's core IS near the bridge (and I guess : "Un-Wired" would probably be nearby as well), so you go through : all of Adam's bridge level to get to and unlock Durandal's core. Since : Durandal is basically in charge of all the autonomous functions it makes : sense he would be in the control center of the ship. Leela, I'd imagine, : is nearer the crew quarters etc, while Tycho of course is in engineering. : Level 9 becomes "Core Done Blew" (the present level 6). : Given that nobody pokes major holes in that idea, Adam, I would like it if : your priorities for Mk III would please be: 1) Finish the two missing : levels for Ch2 : 2) Implement all the minor bugfixes for Ch1 and Ch2 as discussed here and : elsewhere. : 3) Build the new level 6, the bridge / Durandal's core. You can just take a : copy of L9 and delete everything but the core itself, and build your : bridge plans around that. : We've got about five weeks till Mk III, so keep that schedule in mind. The : two missing levels in Ch2 are of utmost importance. : Lets see what else is there... I'll make the platforms in both cores go : faster, and probably lower the respawn rate on the compilers as well. They : bugged me a lot too. To address Adam's comments, yes, the platforms are : neccesary, in case the player has no grenades to use and they HAVE to use : their fists. About the freeze-up on L6, would lowering the "max" : numbers in the monster settings help solve this? : Blake, I'm not sure what's up with "My Kingdom Pfhor A Horse", let : me give that a run through right now and see if I get the bug... : Huh. Yep, that's definitely a bug. Wonder how I missed that. Ok, attention : everybody: YOU CANNOT BEAT LEVEL 18, "MY KINGDOM PFHOR A HORSE". : The end terminal doesn't take you out like it should. Let me check into : why... aha. Terminal had the wrong script assigned to it somehow. Fixed : now. Blake, I also looked into your complaint about the, I guess it was : boringness of the first part of that level, how you really don't have to : fight anything and can just run... I'd added some more monsters, opened up : a passage to the other half of the outside area that was previously just : eye candy, and put that first door on a lock timer so the player is forced : to stay outside and fight for a while. (Story excuse: Leela is trying to : get you into the complex but it takes her a while). : I think that's about it for bug reports so far. Looking forward to more. : Thanks guys!
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