Thanks.
This is easily my favorite game on this site now, even though it’s still a WIP, doesn’t matter. The storyline is just a joy to follow along, the dialogue and character banter is just absolutely fun. So much variety and so many avenues to play around with, I love it. I really like the progressing romance with Caraway (and hope for more of it to come), albeit I haven’t tried out any others, yet. But in any case, all I can say is “wow”, what a fun play through. I’ll be following this one a lot eagerly waiting for further updates.
But… wow… yeah… I honestly don’t know what more to add. Fun stuff! Keep up the great work!
starnight- Okay, I can see where your head is on this and the levee-logic isn’t as apparent as I thought it would be. Then again, I wrote the code so the logic is also precisely what I made it to be. 
I’ve altered things a little with that scene already, but I can do more
Which option did you choose for the last push in making the levee? Were you playing a highly skilled engineering character? This is one of the few places where engineering can make a big difference.
My logic for the scene was this: the site for the levee comes first because, well, without that there is no destination for anything that is done. Dug dirt or piled wood might be gathered a long way off instead of near at hand. Then comes the digging of the dirt because, without that, there is nothing to haul or pack. Hauling comes next because without that there wouldn’t be anything to pack. Packing is last, of course. Wood can be gathered nearly any time after the levee is sited, since it is used to reinforce the levee as it is built/packed.
Does that make sense?
pigglywinks- Interesting. I’ll see if the variable I use to mark the Carson-Schmidt friendship is at fault.
I am glad you are enjoying Tin-Star. Every typo or grammatical snafu you can find would be welcome. If you feel there are too many to post here, feel free to send me mail via this site.
Apillis- Thank you. I have also enjoyed how the romances have developed in unexpected ways. I will need to make sure that is treated appropriately in the epilogue. After all, who the MC came to be via honor, law and order, should subtly affect just about everything.
Hopefully this work in progress will progress to a finished product soon. I swear I can see the light at the end of the tunnel.
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*Meteor comes at my sheriff’s office* Oh hell no… *Stares it down*
Meteor: Oh sh*t it’s the guy that wrestled a bear!
AllenGies- Yeah that makes sense now. I was just overthinking some of the options.
I had 12 engineering and I chose to have everyone brace the levee.
Thanks for the insight AllenGies. This is a great game and I enjoy all the different choices.
@AllenGies
I sent an email thru the site to you with typo items…hopefully I did the email correctly as I have not used that feature on this site yet…
Here are some story line or coding concerns I had. Sorry there are quite a few I was questioning. I will send more later. Thanks for all your hard work on this game!
At telegraph office:
“I need to contact Carson City and arrange to have Tumbleweed Jack put in the prison there before winter comes and kills him.”
“I need to contact Carson City and arrange for the trial, and likely hanging, of Tumbleweed Jack.”
“Inform Carson City authorities that I’m dismissing charges against Tumbleweed Jack owing to a lack of evidence.”
Q: After choosing one of these options the others still remain,should that happen?
Badger Hill:
Put the stagecoach horses at a gallop. This option stays throughout the exchange even after choosing it. Q: Is it supposed to stay? If the horses are already galloping why is that option still there?
Start of Harrigan gang attack on stagecoach:
The man tumbles from the saddle. You look for Hartigan next, but the man is nowhere to be seen. Frank gives a groan and sits back up. There is thick red blood smeared along his side. Not a grievous wound, but on top of all the others he got recently, he won’t be doing much for a while. "Its bad. I can tell. Guess I’m just dead weight now.The day wears on. Back in the cab, Frank groans from his wounds. On up ahead, Carson (****Q: but I only had Schmidt with me not Carson) gives a low whistle and points toward a looming hill in the distance. The pale cut of the road goes straight up and over it.
Painted Caves confrontation:
“Definitely not a man named Steele.” Regina sighs, glances to her brother. “Reginald, I think something must have happened to our Marshal.”
“Enough talk!”
Start firing.
“I happened to him. He’s dead.”
(***Q: But Steele was not dead, he was shot but alive and taken to Carson City.)
at painted caves…already asked Dan what he saw but the choice still remains to ask him over and over.
Q:Is that supposed to happen?
Dinner with Schmidt at Hotel and chose option to begin romance:
“That’s a surprise.” Schmidt replies, eases aside his plate. “We’ve known each other for a while now.”
Q: but I had told him earlier: I think we are more than friends…so why is he surprised now?
When meeting undertaker for first time…why is one of the options: Stare at THEM? And the second option again references THEM.
Q:Should it be her instead of them?
Ready to confront Steele:
“Try the Babylon.” She offers over as you turn to go. The Babylon saloon fairly churns with townsfolk. Oil lamps are lit against the settling dusk and rambunctious laughter roils out from within. It seems like, for tonight, the Evening Star is the place to be.
Q: But it was the Babylon…not the Evening Star.
Then later at General Store: A simple flip through the book finds that a rough and tumble Marshal came across an imposter in the Evening Star saloon and gunned the man down with no more thought than it takes to brush a horse.
Q: But it was the Babylon…not the Evening Star.
I asked Carson about the town first and he said he really didn’t know much so I asked Schmidt. But the option to ask Carson still remained. So I asked him again.
Q:should the option to ask him again remain when I already asked him?
Talon5505- *The Meteor obediently whisks itself through a window and explodes harmlessly behind a nearby hill*
I still have some notes on that scene… Precious metals could come down with a star-fall and were sometimes dispersed over a wide area. At least one major silver strike, wherein the nuggets were found lying atop the ground, arose from exactly that. Plenty of people would be interested in such silver (or perhaps even rarer materials) while others would merely wish to see what novelty fell from the heavens.
No monsters, no alien spaceships, no infant children in an alien space-ship.
piggleywinks- Excellent stuff there. Especially the mix up of the Babylon and Evening-Star. That’s a big one.
starnight- You are welcome. I am glad you are trying many paths. I know I couldn’t do that myself with an unbiased eye.
@AllenGies
A few more concerns for your review:
When going to ask Carson to help go after gangers:
A pair of riders break away from their duties and out to meet you. One of them is a rough strip of weathered leather pushing on dourly in years. Wandering gray hairs peek out from beneath a broad brimmed hat with a single gold coin sewn up top.
The other, thankfully, is Ben Carson.
“Who are you stranger?” The Older man asks.
"David, that’s Miss Ren Milton. Carson relates.
David blinks, looks at you with fresh eyes. “This is the lady from the watering hole? The one who adjudicated things?”
“Yep.” Carson answers. “Among other things.”
Q: my concern is that I already met David cuz I had Carson help me with the Red Ribbon Mine situation. Now David is acting like he does not know me. Is that intentional?
Q: after dealing with the flood and Preston, Maria sees MC with companion and comments on them/you. If I decide to chat with her and Carlos why does the 4th choice remain as an option throughout the exchange? It seems like that would only be for times you didnt want to chat…
“Carlos Gustavo, you seem well.”
“So, Maria, how is the hermitage coming along?”
“I know the town doesn’t look all that different, but it dodged a bullet today.”
"We were just chatting, but I am afraid I must move on.
Chose option of telling priest to stuff it:
The Man idly watches as you lurch to your feet, doesn’t seem to mind when you pull the noose off. (Something funky happening here…he starts saying one thing and then changes gears.,.)
that’s good. But hold a mite until you hear what I have to say. “I heard you with the priest. Quite the tongue on you, and that might just save your neck. I’m Marshal Simon James and there’s a need in the territories for stalwart folk who’ll wear a badge and get things done. Folks like you.”
Carraway & drunk guy confrontation at Mother Lode:
“She got creased in the arm. Sometime back, musta been cause the blood dried thick.” HE says, hurries off.
Q: But then later when meeting with Carrie it was her leg, not arm. Did she have two injuries?
Q: Have the option to clear land for a homestead even if I have had bought or stacked a plot of land yet. Should that happen?
Q: when talking with jeff donner, I say I have questions and go thru all of them. But then the option for I have some questions is still there…is that supposed to happen? “We’ve already been through all this.” Donner notes with a frown.
Q: Already chatted with saddler but the option for chatting with him remained.
“How about that Harry Winthrop?” Timothy Sadler asks, “I heard you had to pull a gun on him just to get him to shut his trap. To be honest, I’m surprised it worked.”
Q:But I had actually killed Harry, not just pulling a gun on him…
Q: Matthew at the General Store; the option to look at the harmonica remains, even after purchasing or taking.
Preston: “I should have never let you take that wagon out. I thought, why not let the Marshal try his hand.(But I was playing as a female.) What’s the worse (should be worst) that could happen. The answer to that is this.”
Q: This part confuses me cuz he said he would like to know something but never asks…
“It may be for you, but I would like to know something.” Hancock asks politely. The wind whips through, drives dust across the flat expanse. The Albion riders shift nervously in the saddle as the grit rains. Several hurriedly tuck away rifles they didn’t need to have out. Farmers and laymen indeed. Hancock tips his hat to you. “Good luck, Marshal. I and us hope you will bring those dangerous men to justice.”
Q: My concern here is that I had told both of them earlier that I liked the other one so it was already out in the open and they were both amenable to staying with me and potentially working something out…but then in chapter 8 its as if they had no clue and I blindsided them. Thoughts?
As you step out into the street, your eye falls upon a peculiar sight. Schmidt and Yiska walk side by side down the middle of the road, in such a deep conversation that even the rattle of a stagecoach and a flurry of mud can’t turn them from their path. The two men look up as you approach, each worried in their own way.
“Both of us.” Schmidt says, gives a long shake of his bearded head. “Inetus has excellent taste in men.” Yiska notes, flashes over a smile. “But Dan here is worried there will be trouble.” “Darn straight I am. These sorts of things are, well, they just aren’t done. You’re gonna have to decide between him and me.”
Played through the, “Shoot Everything,” playthrough. It was almost too painful to continue; kill Ms. Caraway, gloat at her dad, massacre the Red Ribbon workers, yet for some reason I found it funny in that black sort of way.
Got a question. How does Caraway go back with you to your office without capturing her? I don’t mean the steps but the description.
***SPOILER ALERT***
In the game you drink with her and suddenly, you are at the office with her and the companions(if any) that you picked up at the oasis.
It’s because you get so drunk with her that you don’t remember getting there. It does say in the game.
Allen.
Sup.
EDIT: Can someone point me to the latest link?
EDIT 2.0: Nevermind, found it.
Is it possible to kill the bear at the berry bush with a high enough pistol skill or is it just rifles that can kill it
Gunfighting is just general knowledge of how to handle yourself in a gunfight. That doesn’t mean you’re a good shot, it just means you know how to find the right covers, how to draw your pistol quick, how to make people waste their bullets, how to make people think you’re shooting at them when you’re not really aiming, how to trick people into emptying their guns for you (like you can do to Miss Caraway)… that sort of thing.
I don’t think being good in gunfights means you’re a good shot.
I dunno… I took gunfighting as being in the classic “Ol’ West” vein of being a gunfighter, being a quick draw with a pistol “clearing leather” before your opponents and blastin’em off their boots. Otherwise, you’d be a pretty useless gunfighter if you’re not already a good (or at least decent) shot.
Maybe AllenGies can help us out here?