Added tag BALANCE

Irravonia's wand takes too long to perform an action

This should for most of the level be fixed now

What *is* broken is the floor where we got a lot of dominance issues that require immediate fixing

Indeed

Or not?

This should do it!

Aha!

Hmmmm.....

This test will either tell me why the impossible becomes possible, or try to void it completely

Tried to make it even more impossible (I can't fix it, as you can't fix what ain't broken).

Impossible error

Well, let's test this map.... This should now work pretty well

Set up the map completely

Treasures and enemies have been set....

In the Xenor Bushes West, the player is NOT gonna encounter this critter when playing in the Easy Mode (and the creature will make its debut in the Exam Ruins then), the the Casual mode the chance is there, and in the hard mode, it'll be the most met creature....

Strong Goblin

Well this brings us more "back on track".... or so to speak

With this I can fix the disappeared Travel Emblem in the Bushes - West!

Swap killer added

Well, no use crying about that.... And this was sent to me just in time to get some relaxation about this

Due to the old bug I do want to make sure I can empty swap files, so that will be something to do next!

Well I guess that means I can forget about setting the achievements

FINALLY!

Take XI

And I wasted a lot of time with that one!

And I killed it!

I think I found the cockroach

Take VIII

You can't fix what ain't broken, but perhaps this can loophole me around this crap

"ERROR>[string "Trans: libs/strings.nlb/strings.nil"]:121: invalid option '%<\0>' to 'format'"

The errors become more and more ridiculous

Take VII

Come on, work with me here!

So I added some extra debug lines that must clear things up!

NOTHING can make this bug possible

Not a chance in HELL! sprintf cannot return nil, so what the fuck happened here?

Take VI

that

function scope started in line 0?

And let's move on to take V

Well that has been put right, of course!

Neglected a few vars in code transfer

And it shall forever remain a mystery what exactly happened

Oh, now stuff works.....

Initiating take IV will show me

Let's see who big the damage is....

Tell ya what... it DID go wrong....

Well let's update BitBucket while I'm waiting

I see the updater is doing some "housekeeping".... Last time that happened it went horribly wrong, so I can only hope for the best....

Take III

as for the game

I did a bit of off-topic study, as I am interested to include support for .a files, although they are not fully standardized, so that can cause a bit of trouble, and support will always be limited... But hey, whatever JCR6 can support, is cool, right?

Natural break

I love my script

So let's do that again, shall we

I fixed those (of course)

That was because of a few parse errors in release only code that I didn't see because Visual Studio didn't mark them as it only marked errors in debug code

Ah, the compilation of the NALA release failed.... HMMMM!

Fixes appeared to be ignored

Take II

with my beloved little script

Compile

NALA

A data synchronisation is in order :(

Alright, something's wrong with the engine.... Time to sort out what it is!

Take I

That covers it all for #79 for now, as I'll do the achievements later (planned for today, but later means if I got this all tested)

#79 Skill issues for Irravonia should be fixed

#79

The YoMama zone will be permanently removed once the Big Mama Slime has been encountered

lic stuff

#79 - Covered elemental resistance and status chance resistance values

#80 and if the bug does surface again, I can always re-open this!

And that should Fix #80

I've made sure that NALA will on startup always clear out the entire swap map.... As a matter of fact all Bubble based engines will

#80

And now I gotta do that boss sequence one more time, and hopefully stuff works now....

And I'll use my powershell script for that while I do my MS daily challenges for today ;)

Rebuilding NALA

Link issue fixed!

I think I found the bug!

still faulty even though the log deems that impossible.... How odd....

And investigation run shows no pain.... But maybe there is a little compilation version conflict going on here, so I need not to cry victory too soon

Aha.... I guess I found the little bugger... I wonder why how this is possible, though....

Another stage appears to be alright! What is causing it then?

At least I could verify one stage to be good.... But it's not all cool yet!

Debug Game Sync

The game keeps complaining about corrupted savegames, so I really need to sort some things out here....

Take II

Equipment fix for Eric

I already see a drop in FPS in the savegame screen due to my high number of savegames, which allows me to test #42, but that comes later

Take I (and the only take I hope)

And Let's see if this fixes some stuff out here

Equipped Eric with Bracers

Bracers

And one more thing to do

Equipped Eric with a T-shirt

Equipped Eric with a short sword

Equipped Irravonia with bead necklace

Equipped Irravonia with a dress

Equipped Irravonia with missle wand

T-shirt

Short Sword

And the bead necklace Irravonia wore as a kid will transfer to her adult form

Missile wand

Dress

Recompiling

I've done a few adeptions to make sure the savegame routine can't suffer here anymore....

But I think I found a few things out.... The game tries to make impossible comparisons as not all data exists in all characters....

For the short term the link issue is fixed, but the game still complains about corrupted savegames

When time allows me I need to sort out why this bug in the link file happens in the first place..... Links were not planned to be used in Dyrt anyway, but when Star Story and The Fairy Tale REVAMPED are to be done, it'll be a different story....

I've at least made sure that the RPG module can handle empty link files... I do not know if that's enough, though

From what I can see, the link saver is allergic to when multipe party members are in the group without any links.... This causes the corrupted savegames, and the empty link files... clearly.... This is as such an engine issue....

The link file contains no data at all.... Hmmmm.....

"Unknown link tag (0)" is thrown when I try to analyse the savegame file with my analyser, and funny enough so does the game after the "corrupted save" notification.... There is still work to do here....

Time is not really my friend now, so that'll have to wait... I'm tried, although I can sort out a few small things

Many things are wrong.... First of all the game still tries to enforce a random encounter (while it should not), second savegames made past the first boss are marked "corrupted" and I need to find out why

Take III

I think I fixed Eric's dominance issue, as well....

Irravonia should appear now

There are some dominance issues with the map of Eric & Rebecca's house, and Irravononia didn't appear while she should.... The latter should be the easiest fix, though....

I think I fixed that!

Audio driver is not really working out fine....

No new take for that one!

All savegame numbers show with a +1.... This looks more logical to the players... Under the hood it all's still the same, though

Anyway, I hope we can get things rolling in take III

Saskia's syntax is a bit awkward in these things, so you gotta forgive me, folks!

I think I found the little bugger

Take II

And now I must find out why the game crashed, but for that I need to run another test

And that should fix that issue

So let's do that anyway

Ah, I never linked to the kill routine from the SASKIA Script

The logs state the removal of these three never took place.... Never took place my ass!

Right, the log should confirm wither or not the kill was permanent or not.... As this can tell me if some swap data was correctly handled or not

Linkup for kill checked!

and a crazy crash comes up....

Jack and kids are not removed as they should be

And the production is only about to begin... XD

Okay, over 6000 entries in this log already?

Building takes longer as it has to copy the new built music file in, and it's kinda big

Take I

JCR6 is done with its business

But I'm gonna play a game in the meantime, though :P

The packer is still working on the music, so I'll have to wait until that's done, which should be any minute now, though

RIght, everything should now work up to the point where Eric and Irravonia can start on Xenor Bushes West

Ready to make the chain!

MapScript

Set up an empty SASKIA script for this dungeon

an issue I had with Kthura

A bit of the map has been done, but by far not all of it... But at least I can conclude the test now

Yeah, this will take awhile, but as I need to create the Xenor Bushes West map in the meantime before I can move on, it's not a big bummer anyway!

Music Linking for Xenor Bushes West

MapText tag error

Missing comma

Take VIII

Saskia label case error

All character creation appear to be accounted for.... We'll see how much of that is actually true, though....

Take VII

Definition error

Take VI

Lic data

And while I was at it, I also did the start data for Rebecca so I can't forget that!

Start Data for Eric

And onto Take V

That blunder

Crap!

Take IV

Not sure, but I hope I got it!

Well at least now it is an actual character creation issue... bravo!

Take III

Link error

Take II

Declaration error

Guess.... YUP! It didn't work!!! Cool, eh?

(I'm not a pessimist... I'm a REAList!)

Take I (out of one octilion, I'm afraid)

I hate it, as I cannot yet save afterward, but I must check if it works the way it should now!

And a start of the second story has been set....

Chain also set in SASKIA

Link to next map set up

More code

Why did my devlogger suddenly quit, though?

I'll sort that out later, though

And the link has been established (but not yet checked)

It was not there in the linkup code as I already expected

Leader routine real

I've tried to link stuff the best I can, but I must note that it's extremely hard to check if it all works the way it should, at the present time....

Except for "Corona" which will be unique to Eric, most fire spells will be in the spell list in both Irravonia AND Eric, however Eric needs to defeat the red dragon first before he can learn them... However by Aliasing Irravonia's moves, I can prevent loads of trouble here....

These are starting abilities for Irravonia (in adult form, in which she will participate for the rest of the game).

"Rock"

"Breeze"

"Fire" (Burn, baby! Burn!)

"Heal"

I've written some linkup code that will put Eric and Irravonia into the party and load their start up data... This will not yet set EVERYTHING right, though....

Now a bit of a harder part comes... Eric and (adult) Irravonia will enter the game, and new party members is always a bit of a bummer, but here goes...

Yup that voiding worked... I only hope I can find why the game crashes on double quotes....