As brevity is the soul of wit, the 28th Metroplexity Podcast clocks in at 15 minutes shorter than its predecessor.
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Cheers!
Kinak
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October Podcast
Saturday, October 20th, 2012Containment Suit Changes
Saturday, August 25th, 2012Short version:
If you’re wondering where your containment suit pieces went, check under “heavy.” There’s new containment suit stuff to find. Enjoy!
Midgard Version:
In an effort to cut costs related to Slags cleanup, Midgard has begun supplying some of its guards with a stripped-down version of the containment suit.
Long version:
The containment suit has never quite worked the way I wanted, but I didn’t have a better solution until recently. The way they dropped never quite fit with the narrative, they made getting high Etheric Defense super easy, they didn’t work with crafting quite the way I wanted, and so on and so forth.
The old style of containment suit is now called “heavy” (for reasons that are probably obvious). There is now a new style of containment suit, along with some related new content and puzzles.
Once everything’s been figured out, the containment suit should be as fast or faster to find for Hel, but the heavy containment suit should take some extra work. And, more importantly to my mind, the process should make more sense in-world and have a lot more interesting choices, things that were missing in my original design.
Cheers!
Kinak
Mid-July Fixes and Tweaks
Sunday, July 15th, 2012Some summertime changes and fixes.
- You can now expand the recent buyer/seller list in the OmniMall. Good suggestion, Barton26.
- Techniques that check previous Techniques’ types now work with previous Techniques that change types. If that makes sense. Thanks, Arkaim!
- Failing to leave a defender in an empty zone no longer costs energy. Good call, Erenoth.
- Playing in reflected winter ponds should now give XP immediately. Thanks for the head’s up, Al!
- And there’s now a little extra commentary the first time you visit Dr. Amundsen’s office. Good suggestion, Mag.
And, naturally, we have plenty of typos. Thanks to DoctrZombie, Valmo, Mag, Argeth, xKiv, Al, and Barton26 for helping us corral those deadly beasts.
Cheers!
Kinak
June Podcast
Sunday, June 3rd, 2012You know that time you were listening to an old podcast and thought to yourself “self, I bet Kinak can’t possibly ramble longer than this?” Well, let it be known I took that as a personal challenge. In unrelated news, here’s the 27th Metroplexity Podcast.
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Kinak
May Bug Fixes
Monday, May 28th, 2012We have a couple bug fixes and a massive pile of typos to report from the month of May.
- Cheating into the Slags computers should clear any alerts you may have. Good suggestion ShadowWolf.
- Made some tweaks to the Quad quest. Thanks for the suggestions Al and Happy Yeti!
- Red Metal Gaze should properly count as “sciency” again. Good catch Valmo!
Thanks to Nyther, Cryptodynamic, PenguinPyro, Xerf, Happy Yeti, Al, DerMagus, Arkaim, Vholes Piper, and xKiv for reporting those typos.
Cheers!
Kinak
Net Usability
Saturday, April 14th, 2012Although some folks don’t use the Net much, others use the hell out of it. Particularly with Subversion Testing we’ve, perhaps ironically, found a lot of the weak points in the design and interface.
Managing Bookmarks
There’s now a “Check List” link above the target list. It’ll clear out sites you’ve lost access to through various means. This has been requested a couple times, as I recall, so you can thank xKiv for finally hitting the right argument :)
Target Searches
When you’re subverting another player’s site or using a target search, targets it returns that you already have access to are now called out. Also, the list is alphabetized (thanks, Mag!)
Hub Links
Sort of #FirstWorldProblems, but when your Hub saved a link to one of your sites, it wasn’t clearing out your alert level. Seeing as how you’re rebuilding access from scratch, clearing those only seems fair. Thanks for pointing this out, xKiv.
Touching Sites
Poking around a site then logging out will now draw a small amount of attention.
“But wait!” you may say “how does that make the Net more usable?” By making logging out free, the old setup made scouting and durdling around the interface strictly optimal. Now, those are still possible, but pushing ahead is the better option if you can manage it.
I think it’s win-win, to be honest.
Cheers!
Kinak
Easter Podcast
Sunday, April 8th, 2012Join Kinak in his search for questions about candy, easter eggs, and people coming back from the dead in the 26th Metroplexity Podcast.
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Kinak
April Foo… Bug Reports
Friday, April 6th, 2012As always, with lovely spring weather, we get swarms of bugs. What do you mean, not that kind of bugs?
- Fixed some problems with the Midgard Special Officer fight not finishing properly. Thanks Arkaim!
- Resolved a group of issues with the new control display. Thanks to PenguinPyro, xKiv, and Mag for reporting those.
- Also fixed up some bad gang log messages. Good catch, Vholes!
- The integrated injector’s tools should be working properly now, thanks to Xerf.
- Exiled some blank encounters related to the mining helmet. Thanks for reporting those, Argeth and Mag.
- Eye of the Earth Serpent now requires Body like other cybereyes. Good catch, Valmo!
- And the new special reward from the rail serpent fight won’t keep displaying when it’s no longer needed. Thanks PenguinPyro.
On a non-bug note, Piercing is now slightly more effective in Net Combat.
Also a special thanks to PenguinPyro, Nyther, GoldS, Arkaim, Factitious, Cryptodynamic, Argeth, Valmo, Nyther, and Vholes Piper for helping us kill some typos.
Cheers!
Kinak