Queen Of Thieves beta 0.8.7

[jack1974]

Did the update though I forgot to change the battle in catacombs to "Ambush" if you pick Joanne option. Anyway on next update will be done

[myoksy]

The protected marker is excellent, though it would maybe sound better if you use a wording like "Guarded by <bla> on position <foo>" - less technical and more within the story.

[jack1974]

Yes will do something like that

[myoksy]

is it possible that the fully randomized mansions are not accessible anymore? I see only the ones with a fixed layout after doing dozens of them (but the Random Number God hates me, so this is not necessarily a real bug)

[jack1974]

Ugh by mistake I left a fixed id for the Military the other ones should be OK though!

[myoksy]

after poking around: you have for both merchants and nobles 8 mansion blueprints but for military only 7. you select one layout randomly between 0 and 6.

[jack1974]

Yes I sent you an email about it. I just discovered that myself too!

[myoksy]

sorry for the late reply, I was fooling around in the catacombs (the mushroom scene works nicely, thanks!). I just got one of the complete random mansions, so all's fine now.

something I realized after breaking into about a gazillion houses (I am slow sometimes) - except a few fixed or rare special encounters all foes are male. was this a design decision or happened by chance?

[jack1974]

No was completely random to be honest

[myoksy]

back to the drawing board, I would say : P

two skill remarks:

"into the fray" is an unique skill I forgot way too often - but there is no incentive to invest more than one point: a slow attack with normal damage is not exactly sexy with all the other possibilities to invest 2 skill points. maybe something like this would make higher levels more interesting: instead of increasing the damage lower the delay. novice would be identical (50% dmg, 12 delay), journeyman again 50% dmg but a delay of 9 and expert would need a time of only 6.

"ice shard" is the only elemental damage spell with a delay of 10, the 3 other analogous skills use only a timer of 8. was this overlooked or is it the result of balancing?