I (as at least a few other people) enjoy the locked exits feature. But I feel it has a couple of problems and in the future if the time/ability arises to add new features; I’d like to expand on this feature. I think it can go in many directions.

First of all; the way the graphics and trigger areas are set up for the unlock buttons is kind of weird imo. In some of the sets; in order for the button to work; you need to bury it almost underground so that once pressed its no longer visible. Maybe not a big issue but doesn’t look aesthetically nice imo. I’d prefer they be visible at all times.
Maybe a redesign of how they look/operate could be done. I need to think about it more.

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Buttons could do more things than just unlock exists. They could; [some loose ideas that would need much more thought/exploring]

-“re-lock” exits.
-activate or deactivate any trap, exit or entrance. Any object basically. [teleporters, updrafts]
-Turn around one-way walls! [swap directions]
-draining water objects [using the “rising water gimmick” in reverse, to basically get rid of (or create) a water trap. Lem Revolution has this (they’re called “pools”, got quite a bit of use in that game.) This sounds simple at first but is quite a bit more complicated than anything else. But maybe something to think about down the road.

Issues/thoughts
-This whole set up would require two things:
   -some form of indicating what is connected to what [see below]
   -a likewise (and hopefully not-as-complicated-as-possible) system in the editor for creating these)
   -constant animating traps; which can indicate whether an object is turned off or not. (if the object stop animating; you know it’s off/inactive)
-Operating entrances might be more tricky/not worth it.


ideas for labeling:
-Have a light or symbol above or below or somewhere near the button; this same symbol should appear above a locked exit. This symbol/light could even blink (for a brief period) when activated. Light might look pretty. But symbols can be more diverse. I’m thinking of the symbols used in exactly this fashion from Portal 2. They’re simple; triangles, squares, circles etc.
-Another option (which I’m sort of getting from Chips challenge 2) is “wires”. Lines which connect everything. This may make it very obvious what is connected to what but might get ugly.


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Split buttons into two types: buttons and switches. Buttons work pretty much the way they currently do; can be pressed by a lemming walking over it,* and only once. Once pressed they cannot be pressed again.

Switches; on the other hand can be pressed again and again (to reverse their effects). Now there’s another further sub divisions that this could go into;

Again, taking from Revolution; switches (which look like levers pointing either right or left) can only be flipped by lemmings walking in said directions. Once flipped they must be hit by a lemming walking the opposite direction to be flipped/activated again. Etc and so-forth.
I’ll say this was put to so-so use in Revoltuion. All too often I think it was pretty easy to pretty much get  a switch flipped from any direction. I don’t recall super clever use of directional switches; but I can think of ways in which it could be put to very good use

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Why do I like this kind of idea so much (versus new skills?) First of all; excluding the rising water and more complicated parts) I suspect less glitches from this kind of thing. Also I feel this type of new feature would be easier to learn/adjust to.

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Can fallers/splatters press a button? I’ve never tested this. I think they shouldn’t for consistency sake.

Hold to Scroll: this topic was locked so I'm pointing to it here:

http://www.lemmingsforums.net/index.php?topic=3282.msg64216#msg64216

I agree with Simon's post; while the edge scrolling is improved; I never use this and the hold-to-scroll feature feels slippery and needs improvement. I want it to feel just like Lix's scroll. With Lix I always use hold to scroll and find it has much better subtle control than edge scrolling.

I have a huge list of titles that mostly I will probably never use as I rarely create new levels these days. Feel free to use these or post some of your own! (some of these I wrote down from places I'd seen elsewhere so I might have stolen some other's ideas!)

A Little Bird
Accidents
archipelago
pantheon
building blocks
cannon fodder
castle siege
coward
Cruelty
death blow
DEF CON
Deja Voodoo
deluge
verdict
easy winners
fallout
Free 4 All
glacier
home sweet home
Insanity
It Takes Two
Lem's Blunder
Logan's Run
malfunction
Massacre
Modern Lemming
Montezuma's Lair
No Problem Atoll
pearls before swine
Pop Rocks
Resistance is Futile
Road Block
Shake and shiver(s)
Ship Wrecked
short hand operation
step right up
The Old Song and Dance
Go with the flow
catacombs
colony
Lemming and Son
Welcome, my Lem
All my Lemmings
funhouse
achilles Last Stand
Smooth operator
undertow
uphill battle
by hook or by crook
monkey in the middle
harlem shuffle
rocket in the pocket
window of opertunity
temple of doom
Sen's Fortress
do the wrong thing
oblique strategy
onslaught
nowhere to run!
die another way
askesis
desolation row
wild goose chase
I am the Mountain
dead meat
all shook up
no turning back
run around
mind game
monty haul
trial and error?
give up the ghost
lights out
all alike
mush
the thaw
crazy a$$ s$%&!
pieces of eight
runaway
wing and a prayer
flip flop
ice threat
firing range
nonsense
on the run
fat house
big house
the village
turning point
minefeild
hell freezes over
panic room
venice
phase four
think tank
breaking the ice
smuggler
memories
room to breathe
da bomb
outcast
defect
breakout
infestation
journey
parrallel dimension
tiny trouble
the other side
sudden enemy
against your will
theif
overload
the need for speed
a shot in the dark
lemon squeeze
explosive
night wounds time
double bypass
roden's revenge
big kahuna
synergy
moment of truth
sneaky pete strikes again
canopy caper
off the rails
train wreck
don't fear the reaper
SLIP UP!
truant
Fallen Angels
A Day no Lemmings would die
cantelope island
fire walk with me
pit of despair
parts unknown
Askesis
Baked and Fried!
Being There
Big Slick
boom boom boom
cake walk
deadly danger dungeon
doozie
flew the coop
a rooster in the hen house
rest on your laurels
Let's Rock!
dynamo
fandango!
fanfare
in the flesh
in the long run
Lemming on the Rocks
Misery
Save me Flemming!
Schrodinger's Lemming
slow hand
Stay Cool
that figures
the agony of defeat
the bastille
The Lemming is Waiting
the strenous life
theif
Toxic Dump
triple play
wheel of misfortune
wild goose chase
every passing moment
faces in the mirror
Cinema Show
platform panic
get behind me satan
tele-trouble
Pipe Problems
semantic lemmings
Process Improvement
Skeezix
One Thing leads to another
Dig Dug
Lemming Paean
Logan's Run
trial and terror
The Painted World of Ariamis
ice follies
even you, Brutus
doors galore
crossover
set in motion
the lemming squeeze
intersection
fading fast
double by-pass
modus operandi
synergy
motion sickness
finders keepers
tossed salad
agent provacatuer
patience puzzle
canopy caper
the second death
the great hollow
dingbat
pain and frustration
torture chamber
double dip
death trap
jay walker
globs
long lost friend
sauce for the goose
gold rush
electric trap
strict process
double dare
avalanche
off key
scrambled eggs
all-in-one
one for all!
don't give up
flea market
sheer cold
seven up
bomber maze
breaking in
rebel
construction zone
turning the tables
barricade brigade
fire and ice
Antarctica
open seaseme
prey
haunted castle
mine challenge
in and out
slambam
swamp
sea queue
waterlogged
private island
railroad sabotage
suffocation
free for all
resistance is futile
Montezuma's Lair
run for your life!
slip and slide
infraction
confused
downtown
lame duck
undertow
uphill battle
deliverance
follow you follow me
the whole kit and caboodle
rocket in the pocket!
temple of doom
butterfly effect
suicide
Lazarus
cold Lazarus
dead meat
fire trap
meta-stable to chaos
Fortune Favors the...
infarction
swindler's list
shadows in the night
the night we called it a day
false sense of security
verdict

We all get annoyed by things and get angry from time to time. Use this thread to blow off some steam when you need to.

I fricking got home today to realize my brother updated my PC to Windows 10, without asking me at all. I'm so pissed now, I'd like to kill him.

I don't want this bullshit. I liked windows 7. After 5~10 years I finally got used to it and came to like it quite a bit. Sure it had flaws, many of which I found ways around, but overall it wasn't too bad. The main point is adjusting to something. You can adjust to anything it just takes time. Time Which I DON'T FREAKING HAVE RIGHT NOW! This is pure bullshit and I'd like to start nuclear wars with many countries.

I don't like windows 10, it's very different, it's not suited to my needs. This is bullshit, it's not fair. Maybe this is really only just one in a long list of signs that was telling me what I should be doing.

-I apologize I didn't remember to check what version I was using. Not even sure if it was a stable or the experimental.- ...making this difficult to trace. It has only happened once. It *may* have happened a long time ago, or something similar but if I'm remembering half correctly it was so long who knows. Right now it seems to be a rare thing. I definitely be more studious if it happens again.

I was using NL for a while, I had opened and closed several levels (I was checking my own levels and fixing things) then, all of a sudden I tried typing in the author field and my key strokes came up as weird symbols and I couldn't backspace.
Then an error message popped up, unfortunately I clicked away too fast and don't remember it but NL then crashed and I got too more errors;

access violation at address 00480C05 in module 'NL.exe'...

read of address 000003C8

Exception EAcessViolation ... at 000AB3B0
...
00000178

I have no idea what could've caused this and I've tried replicating it again by doing what I was doing but it hasn't worked.
All I was doing at the time was I opened a rock level, changed some one way arrows to another color then attempted to write my name in the author field.

I don't like scrolling at the edge of the screen. It's especially annoying on vertical levels because you accidentally scroll every time you go the bar to press a button. But I've always found it annoying when for example you want to do something sort of near the edge of the screen; you accidentally scroll then lose what you were trying to do.

I'd prefer the option [like Lix has] to use a (assignable) button instead. Holding right mouse button then moving mouse scrolls. This can be used in conjunction with having your right mouse be used as something else also [like selecting walkers as I do] and won't conflict because you're not left clicking.

Mobilems 1 (the first big pack I ever made, originally for Lemmini back in... 2014?) is now updated to work with the latest (stable) NeoLemmix release. --DOWNLOAD ATTACHED TO THIS POST.--

NOTE: this levelpack will work with the old stable NeoLemmix. If you're unaware; it's recently gotten a major update in the form of a totally new file system. I'm currently working on updating this pack yet again to be playable with that.

also here: https://www.mediafire.com/?w6baba8onn2hp58

Besides updated for the new physics, some backroutes have been removed; some levels altered significantly, many levels removed, and some decorations added.

Feel free to leave feedback!

MobiLems 2 will be next....................