Suggestion: Green Bar: Satiation?

Are you using the NMV already?

Open Inventory;//name---------------------------------------
  1000;//identifier
  0;//item class
  0.000000;//weight
  Opens inventory.;//short description
  none;//first pick up text
  0.550000;//size on map
  0;//show on radar 0=does not show, 1=show on scanner, 2=show even without scanner
  -1;//particle to shown on radar
  0;//visible in inventory 0=no (can only be used via quick keys), 1=yes
  fist.png;//texture name
  -1;//wielded script,-1=nothing, only applicable for wieldable items
  -1;//wielded item disabling script, -1=nothing, this script is only checked for conditions while the item is wielded, if the conditions prove false, the item is unwielded
  0;//show help text for conditions
  begin_wield_slots;
  end_wield_slots;
  begin_effects_block;
  none;//event text
    none;//event failure text
    none;//sound, none for nothing
    0;//vanishes after event, 0=no, 1=yes
    -1;//use key
    I;//quick key
    begin_conditions;
    end_conditions;
    begin_effects;
    62;//effect number
      1.000000;//parameter1
      0.000000;//parameter2
      0.000000;//parameter3
      0.000000;//parameter4
    end_effects;
  none;//event text
    none;//event failure text
    none;//sound, none for nothing
    0;//vanishes after event, 0=no, 1=yes
    -1;//use key
    X;//quick key
    begin_conditions;
    end_conditions;
    begin_effects;
    62;//effect number
      1.000000;//parameter1
      0.000000;//parameter2
      0.000000;//parameter3
      0.000000;//parameter4
    end_effects;
  end_effects_block;
  begin_combinations;
  end_combinations;

Item #28, the Light Diode, has a "Discard After Combine" of 9, rather than 1.

Just an FYI, but you don't need multiple items to open inventory with different hotkeys (I know Default does, but it's not optimal).

If you want to be awesome, add a bunch more Z-hotkey things with 1/100000 random chance to add various Dreams. These dreams would do nothing but have Long Descriptions, basically letting the player have a chance of "dreaming" each time they sleep.

I napped - was informed I was starving and couldn't sleep, but was already sleeping since I couldn't move.

You appear to have removed the "No Weapon - Do Not Remove!" weapon. I'm not sure why it's tagged "Do Not Remove!" - maybe someone more code oriented might know - but you might want to put it back and slip the parameter holder down to slot #1?

For early testing runs, might be an idea to start the player out with a weapon or something. Currently it's just one huge map with a lot of lethal aliens.

For Sleep, rather than drop a plot object, try using a lighting effect.

Drop Blacklight for 1001ms with size 10.

how to refill water bottles

also I tried to use a branch to make a fire and nothing happened

screen started flickering to black and back for a while(or was that caused by something else?)

I like how the screams of aliens and the huge blobs of blood make it very clear when you're being attacked.

Other cool things: the little bugs running around, the fact that I can eat worms, mushroom eating having an animation and eating actually closing the inventory for a time.

I think the puke bar is too small, I end up vomiting when it's just about 1/5 of (assumed)full length.

Here ya go:

Blacklight;//name-------

14;//identifier

particle.png;//texture

1;//type, 0=flashlight, 1=omni

0;//pulse speed

-1.000000;//red color component

-1.000000;//green color component

-1.000000;//blue color component

-1.000000;//alpha color component

10.000000;//light intensity

-1;//flash particle (-1=nothing)

0;//flashing speed

0;//particle life time

From FM's Light.dat. This is how I manage blindness, Effect 27 to drop this, size 10-10 for 200 ms, and reapplied every 200ms until fixed. This works anywhere in the map.

0;//show on radar 0=does not show, 1=show on scanner, 2=show even without scanner
-1;//particle to shown on radar

2;//show on radar 0=does not show, 1=show on scanner, 2=show even without scanner
4;//particle to shown on radar

4;//number of objects to be placed

YinYin Falcon said:
This game is pretty tough - even harder than FM. The walking speed of your character really isn't much fun tho.

I've had a go trying this a few times.

The first time I started this I got thrown into a big walking battle tank in the middle of a huge human vs giant alien insects inferno.
This caught me by surprise because I certainly did not expect this at all from the screenshots and description.
But still I killed many of those poor giant critters. Till I ran out of energy. The game told me to replenish it (energy reserve of a giant walking battle tank) with blue herb ... right
that didn't sound too convincing, mostly because in this area I also could not find any. A tiny energy unit however did the job so I could go on. At some point I made the mistake of leaving the little island of human defenders to find many many more and different giant beetles and spiders and also a few other human defenders. But a big pack of giant blue worms surrounded and devoured me pretty quickly.

That was interesting.

Have you also made SOS? it seems very similar.

The walking speed of your character really isn't much fun tho.

Have you tried holding the middle click to run?

I gave it another go and to my now second surprise this time I came to life inside the stranded ship from the screenshots. Very well ... the ship is very well done. The turret, the doors, the engine, the light switch. I love it.

This game is pretty tough

I'll have to increase the difficulty of FM to compensate. Upping the surface temperature to the boiling point of lead oughta do...

The first time I started this I got thrown into a big walking battle tank

can you start on a different map by simply holding a mouse button?

0=standard 1=Flame Thrower 2=Red Laser Pistol 3=standard 4=standard 5=standard 6=Pistol 7=Rifle 8=Fist 9=Plasma Rifle;//weapon class names
Particle Parameter Holder;//name---------------------------------------

Checked through the code a bit this evening, might want to replace the top lines of your weapons.dat with the following:

0=standard 1=Flame Thrower 2=Red Laser Pistol 3=standard 4=standard 5=standard 6=Pistol 7=Rifle 8=Fist 9=Plasma Rifle;//weapon class names
Particle Parameter Holder;//name---------------------------------------

Only question I have with that one is - with the 60 minutes one (morning 4, morning 8, dawn 4, dawn is that functioning okay? I see you have the 60 minutes switching round to 7:00 and such, probably the same second, is it having time to check it at 60 and activate accordingly? Or would it be an idea to make the check at 6:59 or 7:01?

I killed a flying alien and it left a corpse behind that I couldn't do anything with.- This is fine if it's just temporary until it gets a corpse associated with it, but if you have a -1 on corpse item then the corpse *never* disappears. This can eventually slow down the game, and at very least looks kind of unsightly.

"The Fire Warms You".
- This happened whilst I was standing next to a spring. I assume it's just a text bug?

The switch from light to night seems a little sudden, maybe you could make slightly larger steps for it? Iunno, it sort of ended my playthrough since an alien decided to make nice at that point and I couldn't see squat.

Vomitting whilst starving?
- I can appreciate vomitting if you gorged yourself and were full, but it seemed a little harsh to vomit up a heap of liquid and food because I tried to eat four tiny worms in a row. I wasn't even up to half food at this point.

Sleeping
- We can't seem to escape sleeping problems eh? Sleeping's looking a lot better now, but I also got stuck at max sleep for awhile and couldn't move or see. Took about five to ten seconds (realtime, I didn't think to check the clock to see if Game Time was speeded up) before I could move and see, by which time I was poking at the sleep buttons trying to make something happen.

Glowing nightlife.
- No bug, this was just awesome. I really liked the luminescent slime trails, maybe you could make glowing fungus as well?

 45;//condition
    -3.000000;//condition parameter0
    10.000000;//condition parameter1
  end_conditions;
    begin_effects;
    4;//effect number
      0.200000;//parameter1
      0.000000;//parameter2
      1.000000;//parameter3
      0.000000;//parameter4
    end_effects;

TNN17 said:

I was thinking to add glowing liquid in bottle (like torch) but if that item is removed after some time (burned out) light stills stays on player.

Oh ho ho, you're in luck there, I solved that problem whilst handling FM's torches, and again with FM's Sleeping (which uses attached lighting for instant removal, rather than dropping Blacklights).

Step 1: Attach the light source.
Step 2: Make another item that does nothing, but uses the same slot. < Important.
Step 3: In the same script that removes the item add the following:

Effect 16: +1 of your Blank Item.
Effect 59: Your Blank Item.
Effect 16: -1 Your Liquid in a Bottle.
Effect 16: -1 Your Blank Item.

This triggers the game's Unequip check, and removes the light from the player.

oh and is there any condition: if player isnt hit by weapon class (or if player was hitted by weapon class)
- Yes. Effect 45.

Copied direct from my tree code:

 45;//condition
    -3.000000;//condition parameter0
    10.000000;//condition parameter1
  end_conditions;
    begin_effects;
    4;//effect number
      0.200000;//parameter1
      0.000000;//parameter2
      1.000000;//parameter3
      0.000000;//parameter4
    end_effects;

Because it's negative, Parameter0 denotes a type, not an item.

I tend to play it fast and loose with timings there, but 1ms should cover the "Was Player just hit by Weapon Class X" type question you were asking about, but if you were to use it in a Script (rather than in a hit block for the Player Creature - not Race) then you can extend it accordingly.

TNN17 said:
Vomitting whilst starving?
- I can appreciate vomitting if you gorged yourself and were full, but it seemed a little harsh to vomit up a heap of liquid and food because I tried to eat four tiny worms in a row. I wasn't even up to half food at this point.