Thank you for the information but I am aware of more than most about Moody. 
EvilChani and I had been talking things over long before their announcement to take over.
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At this point, I’m just waiting on two things:
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Need Don to take a look at folder permissions, because the only way I can get it to work uploading and playing games is to set folder permissions at 777 (which not acceptable).
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Need Don to backup/restore the accounts of people who indicated they wanted their info moved over.
After that, it will be ready to go. As for password resets, I can handle those, but am trying to get the password reset function working so it’s not necessary to contact me (I don’t want to know your password and don’t want to have to choose one for you–that’s not the type of security I find acceptable, either).
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@Dvalor53
Glad you’re well-apprised and I’m sorry if my info is a repeat of everything you already know! I know a few authors who are completely unaware of the situation.
You’re an absolute champ. Good to know where we’re at! Do you need any monetary assistance?
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Until everything is transferred over, I don’t feel comfortable setting up anything to accept money to help pay for the server. Once it’s transferred, I will likely set up a ko-fi in case anyone wants to chip in.
That said, I wouldn’t have taken it on if I didn’t think I could afford it without assistance, but I won’t object if anyone wants to help pay for it, especially since I went a bit overboard in setting up the server on AWS… I tend to overprovision out of paranoia, because I don’t like sites being too slow or crashing. I do the same thing at work. 
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Ooof, I feel that. If there’s a bottleneck, it won’t be on your side, eh? loool
I’m glad you have the capital to manage, but I can see the volunteer angle you have and it just rubs me the wrong way to not give my support in some manner. I’ve paid too many authors by now to not support the very sites that lets us access the stories!
I’d offer my help in a more professional angle, but too many hands in the cookie jar can just slow things down… and my coding ability is 0.
Anyway, sorry for pulling the discussion from the story. 
I’ll keep my eyes on the moody discussion if you end up opening a crowd fund option.
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So far good game interesting and fun two minor caveats one I wish there was a save system and two you need to fix the refresh system or some thing as when it reloads it goes all the way back to the beginning with no save points it’s hard to remember what you did
Moody has a sve system, unless you are talking about the Checkpoint saves that Dan rolled out a few months back. If that is the case, I do not see use of the Checkpoint system within this game.
This sounds like an extension of the first issue. Moody has a saving system if you are logged in. That however is a feature of the website and not the game. I don’t have control of that.
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@Liza_P Teleportation is a power that I removed from the game as it easily makes a lot of events too easy to get around. Also with so many powers already being juggled, taking it out make things a little easier. I left it within the script as I might bring it back in a future update, but I have not made any official plans and cannot guarantee it.
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I assume this is the power that is referenced at the beginning with the MC already being in front of that one dude while he’s trying to escape?
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It is not.
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Hello everyone!
Sorry I am getting this out late. I meant to post this on Friday, but things got away from me with everything going on in my personal life. Nothing concerning, just been busy. There is little update to say other than I have finished reintroducing the romance options to the story. There is not much to them and I feel like they might lack a little depth. I might add more to them on my next pass through the story.
Speaking of, I am waiting as my editor get further ahead before I start making my final pass of changes to the story. This has made it so that I have had a long break from actually working on new content. The content that will be coming out over the next few months are things I finished about a month ago.
I will continue to release at least one chapter each month in the coming months until we reach the end. I’ll keep the full game up for a few months and if I’m lucky by then I’ll be done with the final version and will be submitting it to HG.
In the mean time I have started working on another project to keep my mind going. Progress has been rather slow on this project. For some reason I am struggling to keep my focus. It’ll be nice to share it with everyone when it is ready.
Until next month!
April Month end update
Still working on:
- Nothing. Waiting on feedback before next pass
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I can’t play, when I choose the game mode it gives an error.
What is the error that it gives?
Also wasn’t sure where to post I can’t log into moodyink it says I already registered my email but it’s not accepting my password and it won’t let me make another account
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I get the same error.
Is writeen in a pop up: “cannot read properties of undefined (reading line)”
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It’s probably a little too late to change this at this point in the development, but I’m a little sad the cheat option never came to fruition. I.e maxing all skills and stats, while still making any ‘mandatory’ loses happen as someone else suggested a few years ago.
While I can enjoy a balanced story as much as the next gal, sometimes you just want to lean back and wreck house in a good old fashioned power fantasy. A superhero story is particularly good for this, since it’s sorta on brand for heroes to be far out of the league of most normal people. While I won’t change the subject and focus a large part on the particular game itself, ‘Kingdoms and Empires’ I think it’s called did a pretty good job at this. It gave players an optional ‘cheat’ mode in case players just didn’t want to bother with succeeding or failing a Stat check but just wanted to be the prodigy ‘Main Character’ of the story with all the clichés that comes with that trope.
Hopefully it’s something that could still be added, but if not then yeah it is what it is. Would’ve been a cool feature, but it not being there won’t take away any of the greatness that the game already has. Because my God is it a good game as it already is.
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I mean, you can still basically do that using the “Inspect Element” option by Right-Clicking the screen and typing “stats” in the console section and modify the stats in there. (Just make sure to progress a page after you modify them before you save it)
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Might have to do that then. My main problem is that I usually play WiP, or IF in general on my phone. Makes it a little more frustrating.
Edit: Looks like I can’t even figure out how to do that, so it’s a mood point. Nothing comes up when I search for stats.
Edit: Yeah, this coding is far too complex to make a cheap edit. For this game, I frankly don’t know if it’s possible for the average laymen to do. All we can do is either accept the stats as are, or hope the author does decide to implement some sort of cheat mode.
The link wont work☹️
Unfortunately the password reset of that site was never finished. You’d need to reach DashingDon to fix that, but he isn’t the most active anymore. You could try the main thread.
I have been trying off and on for a few days now and I am unable to reproduce this. It is hard for me to tell if the issue is the site or my scripting. What are you using to access it? Are you running any VPNs or other background software that might modify the site?
What’s happening when you try?
Yeah, it was just always a side concern compared to the other fixes and additions I was working on. It isn’t too late though to implement, I just need to figure out the best time to have it go into effect. Then I can add something in the stats screen menus for it.
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