Game Development: Provincial Oven

[Robertzon]

Jesus christ Jorb, why the hell did you add such a broken wound?
Swamp is pretty much the most visited biome in this game because you get lots of study materials + candleberries from it and now you can't be in a swamp longer than 2 minutes or you will fu*k up your progression for the next 2 days.
Way to add another bad mechanic to the game that requires the use of alts, well done!

[godz123]

Thanks, Obama.

[Sevenless]

It has been proposed on discord that this might not be a killing wound, but a wound to slow down hardcore players. That the best way to heal it is being offline. Not sure if this is true or a side effect.

Committing crimes prevents logging off. I'm not sure if it's intentional or not that swamp fever is a death sentence for not only PVPers, but people who've committed assault simply to defend themselves. It's funny that Jorb was just recently talking about new players getting rage early to protect their drying claim from being destroyed, then they add this that just so happens to kill anyone that defensively buys (and uses) rage.

If you log out sleeping in a bed you still get the healing bonus though.

[Zampfeo]

It has been proposed on discord that this might not be a killing wound, but a wound to slow down hardcore players. That the best way to heal it is being offline. Not sure if this is true or a side effect.

Committing crimes prevents logging off. I'm not sure if it's intentional or not that swamp fever is a death sentence for not only PVPers, but people who've committed assault simply to defend themselves. It's funny that Jorb was just recently talking about new players getting rage early to protect their drying claim from being destroyed, then they add this that just so happens to kill anyone that defensively buys (and uses) rage.

If you log out sleeping in a bed you still get the healing bonus though.

That "bonus" just increases the rate at which the fever progresses similar to an adder bite. That is to say, it will increase quicker before it eventually begins to heal properly if you sleep in a bed. Even after drinking the juice, mine continued to increase because I was not able to properly log off, which seems to be the best way to deal with the fever. For people without the outlaw debuff, sleeping in the bed speeds up the fever progress and the act of logging off lessens the severity, but for people with the outlaw debuff, sleeping in the bed only speeds up what is an extremely severe wound and they cannot technically log off to "treat" it.

[Sevenless]

I'm not sure how much I'd trust a discord rumour about a day old mechanic being gentler on people logged out personally.

[Uriel]

Ok.. wound went to 52, juice went down to 37. Really mates, let us play. We spend so much time on this game and this aint fun. Fix it or delete it.

Fighting bears never gave me so much wounds as going on a walk to swamps...

[Mazikeen]

hey jorb,
https://soundcloud.com/dash_nebula/swampfever

[jorb]

Rebooting with some fixes:

• All existing Swamp Fever wounds have been healed.
• Significantly reduced the damage caused by Swamp fever, and made the debuff a low percentage value.
• Updated the description of Swamp Fever to better reflect its actual transmission vector. You do not auto-contract it in Swamps.
• Galena should no longer produce lead without quality.

[stchristopher]

[ogey]

Dammit Jorb, I invested everything into adder fangs!