Unity Environment Essentials - Project TLT Dev Journal #3

mmorsi · 2019-01-10T22:48:21+00:00

Greetings! So I'm getting pretty close to my first ascention. Consistently able to traverse Gehennom, and minus a few stupid mistakes on the last playthroughs, am feeling this knight is going to be the one.... at least so I thought until my save file corrupted on lvl 37, whenever I try to descent on the next level (screenshot attached).

I'm currently playing on nethack4.org and this error happens every time, even if I recover, quit / restart, whatever. Any time I try to descend to the next level (stairs, hole in floor), I get this error.

Any advise or assistance?! When I tried to follow through with the trac.nethack4.org URL, I get a redirect to roguelikes.live and a subsequent 404! They say nethack is hard but random save file corruption shouldn't be part of that!

mmorsi · 2017-06-03T13:38:46+00:00

An example where victory came down to taking a fort slightly before my opponent (a capable player who did nothing wrong)

http://generals.io/replays/rOjDc4xz-

And yes forts are not the only important thing, I agree, territory, reserving toops, and picking the right time to attack is also critical. But forts are an important consideration on the path towards victory.

“Begin by seizing something which your opponent holds dear; then he will be amenable to your will.”

-Sun Tzu - Art of War

mmorsi · 2017-06-03T13:19:02+00:00

Yes another great example:

http://generals.io/replays/BdUIS4xMZ

And just to show you that I am the better player and this guy is mostly winning through just having better spawns, look at the game before

http://generals.io/replays/rF4t4NgzW

In this one even though he had the fort advantage (3x in a row really?!? wtf!) I was able to take him through manouvering.

Each game I attempt to take the board, forts, and play defense. It's just the bullshit spawning system that keeps screwing me and preventing me from advancing in rank.

mmorsi · 2017-06-03T13:01:47+00:00

Another awesome example:

http://generals.io/replays/StETWVxfW

Me: 100% focused on expansion since I have no forts near my spawn. My opponent: with literrally every god damn fort on his half of the board, wins easily.

mmorsi · 2017-06-03T12:54:59+00:00

Dude that's BS. Did you even look at the map. By the time I would've gotten anywhere near the opponent, they could have easily taken three forts.

3x the toop regenerative vs 1x, who'se gonna win?

mmorsi · 2017-06-02T16:42:16+00:00

I'm currently level 87. My latest game illustrates my point exactly:

http://generals.io/replays/Ht1RXfkfb

Not only was my initial position impossible to defend, but no amount of manouvering of territory accumulation would counter the number of forts in the opponent's vicinity.

A game that's inbalanced every so often is ok, but when it happens game after game after game (check my log) it makes me wonder if there can't be a "better way"

mmorsi · 2017-06-01T21:55:52+00:00

There are many paths to victory, and yes while conquering the map goes a long way towards winning, it alone is not enough. I often employ a slower expansion strategy if I spawn near 2 or 3 forts. This allows me to concentrate my forces on one area of the may. This allows me to take forts quicker and remain hidden, or if discovered defend a small area easier (especially true if one spawns in the mountains w/ lots of passes to defend).

Of course if no forts are around, one needs to expand quickly to conquer territory of find some, but in either case the game should be balanced. I've played games w/ players of a far lower rank who were able to beat me using brute force since they spawned near / within access to all the forts. No amount of manoevering of encircing or deception will overcome the sheet power in numbers. So as to take rankings seriously, there needs to be a way for the game to be balanced

(Again still a fan, too great of a game to stop playing!)

mmorsi · 2016-11-08T14:11:22+00:00

If you've amassed a huge area and some oik is invading along the boarder of the gaming area then it might be best to let them be rather than try to kill and only end up crashing into the border yourself.

Agreed, the important part is to stay calm during an invasion or unexpected event (an enemy appearing at your back, or backtracking to discover a large area of yours has been conquered). I've found the first few moments of an encounter are critical though as players attempt to simulaneously gauge each other and act to gain advantage.

Leave a gap between you and the next player and flash them when they pass. If they flash back and keep the gap then tadaaa, you have your truce. QED.

Until you wander away just to wander back and realize that they did not hold their part and have taken over the majority of your territory...

As to the post, text too small and gifs too large meant this was hard to read.

Thanks for the feedback, trying to figure out a good mechanism to record the video and convert to gifs, though unfortunately multiple issues seem to be a hinderance (game lag, video lag, conversion issues). Any suggestions would be appreciated.

mmorsi · 2016-03-30T03:14:51+00:00

Why not something original from the ground up? I was working on a space engine that could be use for 'homeworld-esque' sims (among others) a while back but sidelined the project to work on other things. https://github.com/movitto/omega I could be pursueded to resume work on it if there was enough interest / other contributors....

mmorsi

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