Well, towards the end you can push for reforms that allows serfs to purchase land for themselves, though still beholden to a noble. From what I suppose land is still given to nobility through merit alone, though the role of a noble changes throughout the game.
Could you make an update letting you buy Stenmeister and/or Darrow? Or implement any of the other suggestions I’ve posted?
@Goshman First let me say that I’m greatly enjoying this game. It’s rapidly turning into one of my favorites due to its embrace of realism during the age of chivalry.
Nevertheless, given that I tend to read through game code as I play these games to make sure I’m not missing anything, I’ve found some bugs that result in bits of the game never appearing. These never appearing game bits are due to the fact that the text strings “true” and “True” are not the same.
For example, if you get past Lady Mary’s chaperone in Squire.txt, the variable LadyMary is set to “true”. Later in War.txt, if you get past Lady Abigayle’s chaperone, there is a check *if (LadyMary = “True”), which will always fail, and so players will never see the text blurb where Abigayle fills the MC in on her sister.
This is not the only place in the game where this sort of bug pops up. Here is a list of places in the game where “True” is used instead of “true”. There are eight total, seven in War.txt and one in War2.txt. In all other game files only “true” is used.
War2.txt: *if (SirOrville = "True") #Sir Orville War.txt:*set LadyAbigayle "True" War.txt:*if (LadyMary = "True") War.txt: *set LadyAbigayle "True" War.txt: *if (LadyAbigayle = "True") War.txt: *set LadyCatherine "True" War.txt: *set LadyCatherine "True" War.txt:*set SirOsbern "True"
While the *if’s for Abigayle in War.txt match the *set’s for her in the same file, they don’t match the *if for her in Lands.txt. Thus these should all be changed from “True” to either “true” or true. (Note that true and “true” are equivalent and will match each other, but neither will match “True”.)
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I don’t have the time to make a list of all the typo’s I encountered, there are a lot unfortunately, but this one happened often enough that I feel obligated to point it out, ie. the word advice (noun) was mistakenly used instead of advise (verb) quite a few times.
Honestly, the game is a pearl, but the grammar needs polish. I strongly suggest in the future that you more strenuously ask your beta-testers for grammar corrections. Either that or find someone to copy edit it for you.
@P_Tigras
Thank you for bringing all of that to my attention. I’ve corrected those issues on my files and will be working on some other corrections I have on my list of work to do so I can push out a patch in the near future.
Grammar was a major issue with LoA, and I even had someone overhauling the text to get the grammar issues fixed. Unfortunately I haven’t exactly heard back from him, and I’m glad I decided not to pay him anything up-front. Best of Us is, I believe, grammatically much stronger and I strive to take feedback to heart in order to improve the quality of my future work.
For the code, well, suffice it to say that I thought I caught all of those before release and the heavy patching that followed. Apparently it was not so, and I’ll be making sure to go through all the variables once more.
Whenever I begin working on the sequel full-time, I will be either overhauling LoA myself in the ramp-up, or setting aside some of the proceeds from Best of Us in order to hire an editor who might actually finish the job.
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Hey P_Tigras, have youmdont a way to get every title and become the Chancellor?
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What are you doing now with your writing? Would you consider any of the suggestions I’ve made? What are you working on?
Well I believe it’s already been mentioned that to become Chancellor your Valour, Courtesy and Nobility scores must all be exactly the same when you get to the check about halfway through War2.txt. It’s probably doable with a lot of trial and error, but I haven’t tried to find a way to accomplish it.
@Goshman: Because I tend to poke through the code, I just about always find some bugs that others miss, especially in parts of the game that particularly pique my interest. And bugs that result in things not being shown are almost never found by people who don’t peek at the code. So it isn’t really surprising. Believe it or not most games have bugs, and the hardest to detect ones are sometimes never fixed. I found plenty in even Bioware’s games when poking around with their toolsets…
I haven’t yet played Best of Us, so I can’t yet comment on it, but I have it on my Nexus 6 and will give it a try some time in the future.
We all know that, he’s asking that since you peeped into the code, that you were able to map out the decisions needed to become Chancellor. And that if you didn’t map it out, if you could take the effort to do so.
Because Fairmath is relative to your current score, it’s impossible to figure it out just by mapping it out. It would take trial and error with actual numbers. I’d probably try to get my numbers as even as possible at the point the check is made, and then look at the nearest stat changes that occur before the check to see if changing choices would nudge things to being equal. Nevertheless, given that the title has no real effect on the game, I don’t consider it to be a worthwhile investment of potentially hours of my time.
Cool, cool bro. Thanks. although I think the correct way to go would to examine a character since the first stat choice and go from there. Or see the possible combinations of stats that the game sees as possible at the Chancellor check, and then cross check with stat increase opportunities to get the highest balanced number possible.
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It’s not hard to get them close to equal, within a few points of each other one way or the other, the tough part is getting all three of them exactly equal right before the check is made. That’s why I’d be inclined to work back from the stat check as I’d want to minimize the number of possibilities that need to be checked if possible. Working from the beginning means that you’ll have to simultaneously track virtually all combinations of stat changes. That will likely add up to hundreds if not thousands of possible scores. Good luck with that.
What were your choices Tigras?
So, how would go about doing it the way you propose it? You might not do it, but some other hero might step up to the challenge.
The scene order for the game is:
startup
Squire
Knighthood
War
Lands
Politics
War2 <-- check is here
Orient
Orient2
Patriarch
Patriarch2
Finale
The game allows you to make 3 saves. I’d save the game at the beginning of Lands, Politics and War2. First I’d try to get to as even stats as I can at the beginning of War2, and map out all of the stat adjustments in War2 to see if any combination of them will get me to even stats. If not, then we go back to the save at the beginning of Politics, and map all those changes out, and then play through the game trying to get a combination of stat changes in Politics and War2 to pan out. If that doesn’t work out then we go back to Lands and do the same thing, but now trying to find a combination of three files worth of stat adjustments that will get them exactly equal.
If there are no combinations of stat adjustments from those 3 files that do the trick than we do another playthrough, saving at the beginning of Squire, Knighthood and War, and start with War. The idea is to do the least work possible in finding a set of scores that will be equal at the check in War2.
Do you know anyone willing to do this?
I might, though I haven’t played the game yet being new to this but maybe I could give it a run through on my second try but please leave my offer as a last resort if anything since it takes me a while to read through a book and I’m a little unsure as to what I do so I need to read through this forum a bit more but as I said, I might be willing.
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Thank you, finally my prayers have been answered.
I did say might, I didn’t say will but if someone could please tell me what to test before hand since I can’t be bothered to read 664 messages
The offer is more than enough lad, it’s more than enough, for even if a hero is to fall, another shall take his place.
Basically work from here backwards, although this helps because we kinda revived the topic.
Totally humble brag.