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Lix Main / Re: Basher staircases, keep/cull
« on: July 09, 2015, 10:32:12 PM »Quote
Let's be honest. "We" here consists solely of NaOH (and you, but that will always be the case as you're the primary game developer) AFAIK.QuoteI've made the shoveller in 2011 to make basher staircases easier than in L1.I'm not familiar with this detail. Is it a case of having more animation frames and/or better masks that make it easier to achieve walkable steps with the technique?
<NaOH> <ccexplore> "We" here consists solely of NaOH
<NaOH> hehe
<SimonN> It's true. I wondered, but was not hesitant, when drawing sprites in 2011 about it
I was sailing in open waters when drawing the Lemmings-to-Lix replacement sprite. Bashing from top to bottom seemed the normal thing to do, because L1/L2/L3 all did it. I knew about basher staircases, and had to decide what to do with them. I didn't like how it was a precision move in L1. They should be either done away with, or made easier than in L1. I settled on the latter back then.
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I'm pretty sure this is the first time this was ever brought up.
It crossed my mind occasionally, but that's normal with most mechanics; so I have never brought it up. NaOH has brought it up a single time before, we didn't discuss it as deeply as today then.
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We are hardly at the point where "we" (other than NaOH) are in agreement of this being a bug.
Right. Though not being 100 % fond, I made the active decision to have basher staircases in 2011. I've changed my view about it from back then.
I wonder if it's a neutral side effect, or an unwanted side effect, when the horizontal tunneler is frequently used to make 45-degree upwards slopes in multiplayer. Had I felt everyone would agree that this is unwanted, I'd have spared making another dreaded cull topic. >_>;
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[...] is at least understandably not the direction one might want the game to get into.
Right, the multiplayer is the main reason to consider no-basher-staircases. Speed mining, or mine-build-mine-build, all use at least one skill moving in the general direction where it would normally go.
-- Simon