SELVA

Little things, cleanup.  Turned the end of a fight into an interaction dialogue to match other events, which will make it easier to add a loot option later.  Added some setting-clarifying dialogue, shinsui and fires not starting in the jungle.  Set Travessia Rasa’s distance to 29 ri from Amahiriteri, so it’s inconceivable to walk there without camping out at least once, but you can make it easy with a tragerschwein.  Still, walking you might not die of wasps or despair if you’re a skinner who chews a lot of coca and remembered to buy a tent.

Little things: equipped items are no longer displayed on the sell screen, so you don’t accidentally sell your equipped sharpfinger to Januszek and half to buy it back a jacked up price.  I invented small tents and large tents, and if you have one in inventory you heal more and your morale goes up when you rest at camp.  I removed the requirement to rest when you set up camp, so now you can camp, go hunting, and set right back out on the road -- but if you don’t rest, your morale drops hugely and you die of despair unless you’re a level 7 thetan I mean SKF obeisant.

I was dying of despair too often (or at least too early) on test runs.  Now eating certain fancy food gives you a morale boost as well as satisfying your ravenous hunger and possibly poisoning you.  Less usefully, now you get a little message when you leave town, like “You leave Amahiriteri in the dead of night in the middle of a world-ending downpour.”  Because you should be told that you’ve made a bad decision when it’s too late to turn around.

Created an event where you wake up after resting and realize a bunch of crap from your wagon (if you have a wagon and anything in it) has been stolen while you weren’t watching.  Eventually I’ll add some clauses to account for the player character being awesome or having people who don’t sleep in their party.

I’ve reconfigured events so that instead of the pop-up windows with little buttons, now they use the standard chat layout -- which has just become the standard “interact” layout.  Pop-ups and buttons were working fine, but this should streamline things a bit and make larger, more branched-out events much easier to handle.

Slow but steady, lol.

Implemented a “scavenge” function so you can take things from abandoned wagons and fallen enemies.

There now exists a reasonable chance that you will die of despair before anything else.

Now when travelling, you and your party members automatically consume available food, so you’re not starving by the time you set up camp.  I implemented morale for your party, too, so if you don’t have available food (or it’s raining, or you’ve been travelling for more than eight hours), everyone gets sad.  Eventually low morale will do something other than make you feel bad for not having enough food.

Finagled with the shopping screen.  Now it not only reflects the correct pricing, but it also successfully adds the correct amount of money to your funds when you sell something.  (Buying was never an issue.)

(average lifespan in minutes / 2000) + (nutrition / 5)

Little things, mostly load/save related: implemented the saving of livestock collections and the saving of equipped weapons.  (Harder than it sounded ...)  Made raw meat edible with a slight possibility of getting food poisoning.  Invented the coca leaf, which increases health and decreases hunger a bit.  And now resting at camp heals you.  1 point per half hour!  (You’re still going to die.)

Hm.  One vote for actual dialogue.  That’s what I have right now, for the most part.  But I started thinking that there’s so much variability (I mean not “so much”, but like choosing your background and stats and whatnot) and why is a scholar with 25 points in intelligence going to have the exact same dialogue with somebody as a brainwashed musclebound cultist?  idk.  I’ll probably stick with the literal for now and see how it feels when I have more conversations finished.

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In games with dialogue trees, do you prefer to presented with a set of complete sentences to choose from, or brief and non-specific options -- “I would like to buy things from you!” vs. (shop); “How dare you, sir!” vs (react with offense). -- or some combination of the two?

Azumamamru, purveyor of caapi and player of chou-han in the Den of Iniquity.