Dom3 Magic Sites Excel

calmon · #1 December 13th, 2006, 12:06 PM

I used 3.04

#knownfeature "Merman Village"

should show the site.

I'll let you do a new site list and don't upload the excel again. Its your project and you're right that i'd asked you before upload it.

Edi · #2 December 13th, 2006, 12:15 PM

I'll take a look. Because I used site numbers, which unfailingly give the same sites in multiple games and I didn't get it. It'll be pretty strange if it appears, but noteworthy also.

Edi

Endoperez · #3 December 13th, 2006, 12:21 PM

I can confirm that Merman Village exists. I've seen it in a test game.

Edi · #4 December 13th, 2006, 12:44 PM

That means that the next test is going to have a reduced site count but upped site numbers for the high end. If it starts giving me crashes regardless, I'll need to go through my test game with afine tooth comb and see what I turn up.

Edi

Edi · #5 December 13th, 2006, 07:19 PM

It seems I owe apologies for doubting some people. Indeed, there does seem to be a Merman Village site, at #565. Site number #564 is City of the Damned, which is basically the same as The Forgotten City but a death site. There is also possibly an as yet completely unnamed fire site that has no effects whatsoever at #566. The DB has been updated correctly. The obvious conclusion from this is that either the map file parser craps out at 563 #knownfeature commands or there was something else that gave me all those "sprnumber too high for this map file" errors when I tried to enter them. But that's the end of it. No more after that.

Edi

HoneyBadger · #6 December 14th, 2006, 08:26 AM

Hi Edi, et all.
Does anyone know for certain whether or not there is a way to mod in an in-game description of magic-sites? I'm thinking not, which is unfortunate because all you've got is this evocative name and no background for it.

Edi · #7 December 14th, 2006, 08:33 AM

No, there is not, and we ain't getting it either no matter how loud we howl. It's this way intentionally. Back when Dom3 was still under development, Endoperez and I pestered KO and JK about it for much the same reason, but we got told a flat no. The devs want to keep the sites without descriptions precisely because it will allow each player to let their imagination run wild. And after hearing the reasoning, I actually agree with it.

Unless I get to write the descriptions, of course.

Edi

HoneyBadger · #8 December 14th, 2006, 08:41 PM

I don't think we'd all be done a terrible wrong if I wrote the descriptions, either