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Finlandasarkila

Single Player
ari.sarkilahtigmail.com

Tue Aug 16, 2005 7:53 am   Post subject: Random rock pushing bug Not logged in.

Rock pushing seems to be random. I hate this bug. No one gains nothing from it. It ruins a LOT of fun of the game, since there is absolutely no point in it. If this was a one-player game I wouldn't care, but this is a highscoring game where the exit time counts. I don't care if I've tried a level million times and then gotten the random rock pushing perfect, I wouldn't mind for a second if random rock pushing was removed and someone playing for the 10th time would get the same time as I did in a few years, it would still be an improvement.

OK, I know I've said this a few times earlier and Wil has responded, but everytime I play levels where it is an ESSENTIAL part of the map, I get pissed off. I'm playing level 69 and it has a LOT of pushes. Otherwise a very fun map.

This is a great game anyway and I'm having fun playing this but I wouldn't mind if it was much more fun : Maybe I'm asking for too much ...

Australia (WA)Wil

Single Player
wilamristar.com.au

Wed Aug 17, 2005 6:11 am   Post subject: Not logged in.

You know my response (said many times in different ways). My question is... what about bomb pushes? How would this effect taking chances on chaotic levels? Bombs are heavier than rocks, do we insist a deterministic number of pushes you have to give, etc. Yams are random too.
Germany (Mainz)Dirkimops

Single Player
dirkimopsgmx.de

Wed Aug 17, 2005 2:11 pm   Post subject: Not logged in.

Quote (Wil):
Yams are random too.
Yes, yams are such a kind of random that I sometimes could...
Never mind.
Finlandasarkila

Single Player
ari.sarkilahtigmail.com

Thu Aug 18, 2005 6:06 am   Post subject: Not logged in.

Quote (Wil):
You know my response (said many times in different ways). My question is... what about bomb pushes? How would this effect taking chances on chaotic levels? Bombs are heavier than rocks, do we insist a deterministic number of pushes you have to give, etc. Yams are random too.
I don't understand why bombs should be any different than rocks, if anything, bombs are lighter than rocks :

And I have said this many times before, yam, alien etc. randomness is ok in my book, since you can learn to control these things to reduce the luck factor. Rock/bomb pushing you can do nothing about, you don't learn to push the rocks better, so having a lucky push actually doesn't make you feel successful/rewarded, it's just luck. However, when you control a lot of yams by a better method than you had earlier, now that's the great and rewarding thing about this game. Of course there are levels where yams etc. are pure luck, but I don't mind that at all, they are just a different breed of levels. Yams, aliens are living things, thus there randomness is natural and makes them feel more alive. Rocks/bombs should always move the same way. They always move the same vertically and they should always move the same horizontally.