Oh come on, now bring Armani here ! Someone needs to fix his twisted brain.

Daytime lvl 1 took me ages to figure : survival of the fittest, or rather, suicidal or the least fit.

Then daytime lvl 2 starts and it takes me more than 5 minutes to actually understand what I have to do. Possibilities are endless here, and that righmost neutral is facing the wrong direction ?!? Twisted, twisted, twisted. Need a one week break from the game to even think about this level again.

(talking loud for sure, but I actually like doing this to me ; tough will have to aknowledge that I'm not at that solving level yet)

No new levels made since I last gave an update a few months ago, but I've updated the OP with the ranking names for the pack, with the only one that I'm undecided on is between either Blank or Vague for Rank 1. I've put up a poll for this I can reproduce what I've decided on rank names here:

Rank 1 - Undecided between "Blank" or "Vague"

Rank 2 - Hazy

Rank 3 - Clear

Rank 4 - Lucid

Rank 5 - Vivid

Thank you to Icho, Shmoley, Proxima, and another user for their rank name ideas! For reference, this is what they came up with:

From Discord:

Icho - Forgetful - Clumsy - mastermind or more medical like Dementia ---- Photographic (Mind)

Shmoley - Vague and/or Warped for the first rank

Proxima - Suggested Clear be the third rank and Lucid as the fourth rank. After seeing this, it made me realize that Clear kind of is a neutral term, which is exactly what I was going for for the 3rd out of 5 ranks, but Lucid especially is an excellent rank name for the 4th, which I honestly would not had thought of! Even more, it rhymes with Vivid

Quote from: Mindless on January 19, 2025, 06:40:52 AMOne of the ranks has to be "Déjà Vu" and full of repeat levels, right? 

Heh, didn't think about that I may consider it later on, but for now it's not in the plans. 

Thanks! No rush, I'll be busy for another week.

-- Simon

Nice! No problem there. Sometimes we gotta see the answers in the back of the book, so to speak. That's why the videos are there.

Good luck with Daytime, the first level requires thought. However, the order of the levels as far as difficulty goes, it's not exactly from easy to hard. Especially with my levels in there.

Ok got it. Did a little cheating since I watched your video, up to the point where it became different from all my previous attempts.
Turns out this "block and release the crowd with 2 diggers" occured to me, but I did not know how to do it since the digger needed to release also has to climb, and that climber I had always him stuck at the end part. That is some serious time and crowd management here, congrats to Armani for the design and kaywhyn for solving it.

Ok so, now on to Daytime...

You're very welcome! So I watched the playthrough video of The Bear Necessities and it appears that it's a matter of digging down to clear the terrain. The rest of the crowd will be brought over section by section until a miner is used at the end of it to precisely allow a left diagonal path to the exit. As for the title, it may have something to do with the limited skill set? I'm not entirely sure.

I'm not an expert solver and usually struggle with Armani's clever levels. However, I agree with you, my levels are fairly easy to do. This is because I'm still learning how to make difficult levels. Thanks for understanding this. heh My next level pack, so far, seems to be really difficult. But I hope that I was helpful enough, even though I don't think I have given enough solving tips, but I tried.

It's nice to have you here on the forums! Feel free to PM me anytime if you need anything. And I'm often available on the Lemmings Forums Discord. 

Quote from: Simon on April 23, 2025, 05:17:42 PMDo you think that this fix warrants a new release for CE?

I was going to add a few more features before doing another release but sure, I can release the current working version as a hotfix.

I've been concentrating on other things for the past few weeks as I have a lot of irl stuff going on. Should probably have done a "comings and goings" post.

I'll get a hotfix out later today or tomorrow and update the release schedule ETAs.

Thanks for the reply Mobiethian.

The actual pattern I found for the difficulty in your Holiday Lemmings 2024 pack is rather simple :
* created by Mobiethian : fair difficulty, have fun. I loved the living-room themed levels, with the trap-cat
* created by Armani : get prepared for brain burning.

Still stuck at "The Bear Necessities" at the end of Nighttime. No matter how hard I turn it around to contain the crowd and dig through those 3 obstacles at the end, I always end up missing a single skill to complete. Hence the name maybe ? Just noticed the play on a word "bear/bare", maybe something to do with the bears at the beginning ? Still searching...

Do you think that this fix warrants a new release for CE? It has sat unreleased now for 7 weeks.

There will be Level of the Year 2024 and Design Contest 32 soon. CE has made it more interesting for me to livestream solving NL levels, and you'll get better feedback for newer versions.

-- Simon

Be sure to get your nominations in! I will contact all authors over the next days.