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Post by 252-rer »

ok i think i learned something new....
i logged on to zoric about a week ago i think to pass the time on zion.
i did some simple stuff and didnt pay much attention. i never bought any food or drink because i would just die and lose my inventory that i never bought any and mabey my buildings or something but i didnt lose my cash skills etc. i never actualy saw myself die because i was never on very long. i had put my money in the bank to try to get some intrest as i had used it to get lvl 2 scientist by accedent:P it lagged and bought it twice. then later another skill for another job as i learned you could have 2 here.
then tonight i was actualy on when i died.
i dont know if this was a bug or something but i died and it said hit f11 to respawn and i went ohh thats diffrent. it ran the radio also:P
when i respawned i still had full hunger thirst bars but i thought it must be a game glitch and would go away when i reloged. this is as before if i loged out low with hunger when i loged back much later it would be full and i had guessed i had died. i walked around a bit and then it went you died and i went WHAT? and it said something about lives but it dissapeared and i thought there are no lives right? so i reloged and it loaded ok but all the sudden it was stuck downloading the heightmap or something so i closed it again. this time when i reloged i was in a new town with no money and my skills, jobs, and bank account where i put all my money disapeared. unless this is a bug that means there are lives on zoric or something and when you lose them all you start compleatly over but with no money(might have the money on you but i dont think i had any when i died). i had never heard of this and even after looking now the most i could see is people wanting resets on zoric but not mentioning things exactly like this.
so is this true or was it a bug?


ps. if this was supposed to happen and we have a number of lives and i would require a reset i dont want one i want to be told about this and deleted from this planet or something so if i ever loged on it would be like starting anew or if required with reduced money. this is as i am not ready for the full time required on zoric if this is true yet.
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Post by hedgehog »

many of the death settings in the game are actually rather unpredictable and/or glitchy. we do have some documentation on what works where and when, but it's not in any sort of manual form..

mostly since there is a plan on fixin that up decent, though it's a rather large scale project afaik, so not entirely positive where that is in the TDL.


(zar, if you wanna change this and/or just wanna see what works funky, search pubsquish's TBI/LATER category for "death". not sure if it's in genie or not atm)
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Post by Tom »

hi,

on most economical islands, you have 1-9 lives, when you die you lose a life and respawn, this means you lose, your buildings, inv, bank account, but not in hand cash...

i think though it is a bug that when yo die your health doesn't reset... (as it should do since your turning a new leaf :)) but the rest is just normal... but respawn and the death stuff is possibly the most buggy part of the game atm.

i blame mit :shock:
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Post by 252-rer »

can i get a reset mabey... my guy still seams buggy:P
i just loged in again and it said you have died f11 to respawn and then i still had next to dead food and drink and died in a few seconds apon whece it went 0 lives:P
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Post by zaroba »

actually, unless the death setting doesen't use lives, if you die and have lives left you shoulden't loose anything but a life. which is what is used on zoric.

the bug is that one death happens, then respawning without needs being reset causes rapid death every 1-2 mins until all lives are gone. or, if online at the time, one death and pow, all lives are gone.
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