Thanks. I appreciate the feedback, but I want to keep the skill training levels as they are. For new players, it's nice to isolate the skills so the player is not in a position of having to try out unfamiliar skills, and possibly get the lemmings killed by doing the wrong thing.
Anyway, Nepster approved my rank 1 list, and I've also played through it and feel it works well. So, I'm going to move on to rank 2, but feedback on rank 1 is still welcome.
This is a much harder rank to arrange, because once we get into the puzzle levels, our perceptions of difficulty are coloured by how much we, individually, struggled with each level, and that varies a lot. The best I can do here is make a first draft that feels more or less right, and come back to it later and see how much I want to tweak it
Also, I know we said the selection of levels was final, but looking again, "A Towering Problem" really doesn't look like a good choice. It's a bomber-timing level without timed bombers. I would like to replace this with "Have a nice day", a personal favourite level that I think may have missed out in the voting topics because it's not much harder than its repeat, which isn't a problem for Redux. Would anyone object to this?
Version 0.2.4, with my first-draft ordering for rank 2, is attached. Full list of levels:
1 Pop Yor Top
2 It's lemmingentry, Watson
3 Vacation in Gemland
4 Go for it!
5 The Stack
6 Just a Quicky
7 The run around
8 A Spot of Bother
9 With a little help from my Lem
10 Plethora of Presents
11 DON'T PANIC
12 Over the wall
13 A TOWERING PROBLEM / Have a nice day
14 Meeting Adjourned
15 The Needs of the Many
16 MENACING!
17 Mr Lemmy Lives Next Door
18 And now, the end is near
19 Tunnel vision
20 Perseverance
21 Down the tube
22 The Far Side
23 Emmings (No L)
24 Time waits for no lemming
25 No choice but to follow them
26 Take care, Sweetie
27 Five Alive
28 Speed Trap
29 Cascade
30 And then there were four
These levels included in rank 2 would be moved up: Izzie Wizzie Lemmings Get Busy, Watch out there's traps about, Dolly Dimple, Postcard from Lemmingland, I have a cunning plan, The Long Way Around, KEEP ON TRUCKING, Tension Sheet Good Idea, Across the Gap, LEMTRIS, Mind the step, Compression Method 1, No justice for the hero.
These levels Nepster suggested for rank 2 would appear later: Izzie Wizze Lemmings Get Busy, The Long Way Around, Thebridge is breaking down, Last one out is a rotten egg, No world without you.