Game Development: Through a Glass Darkly

[jorb]

I forgot to mention: We did buff the Potent Rod, Prism and Magnifying Glass. Updating OP.

[MagicManICT]

I forgot to mention: We did buff the Potent Rod, Prism and Magnifying Glass. Updating OP.

Prism was ok already for a low budget grind character, so thanks for the buff. Other two definitely needed buffs to even get them close to consideration. More passes on curio LP gains, please!! (edit: still not sure if these will be worth it with the changes to glass processing, but will look them over.)

[vatas]

Curiosity buffs:

Prism base LP from 800 to 2000

Potent Rod study time from 22 hours to 11 hours

Don't have recipe for magnifying glass, I assume it requires glass panes. Prism requires molten glass, potent rod any. Neither requires specialized tools in addition to crucible.

[captainmorgan]

loftar already did that, there's a million posts about how all the custom clients are broken.

That should actually be fixed already, but I have to admit I never did see any posts about it, so I just kind of assumed that everyone had those resources cached and so didn't have trouble with them.

The cause was that I was rebuilding the internal environment to have the new client as the main one, but as part of the process I accidentally pointed the old resources to the new ones.

Glad it's fixed. Most of the posts about it were in The Wizards Tower since people identified it as a custom client issue. Here's an example of one (I was also getting this exception): viewtopic.php?f=49&t=69064

It's still broken.

[loftar]

It's still broken.

Hmm, it could be that the resource is cached for you and that's why it still doesn't work. I'm not immediately sure what to do about that. I would tell you to clear your cache, but it is somewhat unfortunate that the map data is kept in the same place... I'll have to think about that for a bit.

[captainmorgan]

It's still broken.

Hmm, it could be that the resource is cached for you and that's why it still doesn't work. I'm not immediately sure what to do about that. I would tell you to clear your cache, but it is somewhat unfortunate that the map data is kept in the same place... I'll have to think about that for a bit.

Replaced data folder with one provided by Vatas and problem solved

[MagicManICT]

It's still broken.

Hmm, it could be that the resource is cached for you and that's why it still doesn't work. I'm not immediately sure what to do about that. I would tell you to clear your cache, but it is somewhat unfortunate that the map data is kept in the same place... I'll have to think about that for a bit.

Any way we could make the "discovered" map information cached server side? That way if we lose our local install, we get our discovered maps (and pins!) back? If it needs replacing after data corruption or other loss, then it could be a low priority background process to update so as to keep server costs down if it's a problem.

[TheRussianB]

It's still broken.

Hmm, it could be that the resource is cached for you and that's why it still doesn't work. I'm not immediately sure what to do about that. I would tell you to clear your cache, but it is somewhat unfortunate that the map data is kept in the same place... I'll have to think about that for a bit.

Does anyone know if there's a way to import map data if you've set your (amber) client to save tiles to disk?

[loftar]

Any way we could make the "discovered" map information cached server side?

If a "discovered" flag were all that the server would store, then that would imply that it would be possible to arbitrarily fetch the latest map data, which I don't think is a particularly good idea.

Does anyone know if there's a way to import map data if you've set your (amber) client to save tiles to disk?

I've been thinking for some time that I should implement import/export of maps, so perhaps this should accelerate that project.

[TheRussianB]

Does anyone know if there's a way to import map data if you've set your (amber) client to save tiles to disk?

I've been thinking for some time that I should implement import/export of maps, so perhaps this should accelerate that project.

That would be cool!