Thanks for your bit on Greek favor. It's nice to know a) there is a reason behind things in the game b) ES is willing to improve things if a suitable improvement can be found.
I was wondering if you would comment on Sacred Cats. Everybody believe Sacred Cats is supposed to improve farming rates by 10%. Everybody knows it improves rates by about 5%. Is this kosher with ES? In other words, is the "bug" in Sacred Cats in the game or in our believing that it should give a 10% bonus?
AOM:TT Nick:CADENtheCRUEL, CADENtheBLUE Rating: Isis 1750, Ra 1700 "Ancestors last for a minute, but Crocs last forever..."
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Cheesewiz HG Alumnus
posted 05 June 2003 00:31 AM
EDT (US)
1 / 7
hm...i was unaware of that problem, but if that is correct, it does need to be fixed or changed as the case may be
Why do people beleive it should improve it by 10%? The game doesn't tell you numbers and percentages, so how would you know?
DeaconEire Mortal
posted 05 June 2003 07:20 AM
EDT (US)
3 / 7
Mircoslave's Enhanced tooltips do
Caden_the_Cruel Mortal
posted 05 June 2003 11:12 AM
EDT (US)
4 / 7
bump
AOM:TT Nick:CADENtheCRUEL, CADENtheBLUE Rating: Isis 1750, Ra 1700 "Ancestors last for a minute, but Crocs last forever..."
Que2 Mortal
posted 05 June 2003 12:51 PM
EDT (US)
5 / 7
yeah!
Improve bast resource gathering techs to a true 10%!
ES_DeathShrimp Immortal
posted 05 June 2003 03:34 PM
EDT (US)
6 / 7
Sacred Cats falls under this weird bug that we noticed very late into AOM.
Basically, a Villager has to complete his animation before switching to a new animation. If you boost the speed (as Sacred Cats does to farming) then it is possible that the Villager still has to complete his animation before depositing resources. Imagine that you have 9 Food, and that you can gather than 1 remaining Food (assuming carry capacity of 10) faster than other Villagers, but you have to complete your animation to get that last bit of Food.
There were some other techs, like Pig Sticker and Odin's hunting bonus, that had this problem. We are trying to catch all of them for the Xpack.
Caden_the_Cruel Mortal
posted 05 June 2003 05:22 PM
EDT (US)
7 / 7
Thanks for the response. I have never seen such a level of committment from a gaming company. Keep up the good work. I look forward to the Xpack.
AOM:TT Nick:CADENtheCRUEL, CADENtheBLUE Rating: Isis 1750, Ra 1700 "Ancestors last for a minute, but Crocs last forever..."