Recent changes to feature-requests

More random locations + new shop type

Anonymous — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 22:01:51 -0000

I've just played through the game most of the way
<Having a bit of trouble doing the EXP grind on my
wizard in order to beat the tyrant>; unfortunately I'm
having a lot of trouble finding good places to grow in
experience at this point.

I can travel down who knows how many floors of measly
enemies to get to a decent level of opposition, or I
could run around the now essentially empty and
completely explored tyrants tower, but both of those
thigns are boring, finding new rooms with new traps and
treasures is fun.

Likewise there aren't that many towns in the game;
while it's good to be able to return to familiar
settings and see your good friendly shop whenever you
like, eventually there will be an item that you want
(like the book of black magic or holy magic that I'm
desperately looking for to increase my ammount of
magical ability), and buying up random items from a
shopkeeper in the hopes that they will restock is not
nearly as interesting as wandering into a new town.

Also; since shopkeepers never have that much on them
over half of my carried weight are soverigens...

I sugest adding some or all of the following to help
with this:

1- An alwase random dungeon that is leveled for player
level -5 or something like that, so that there is
alwase a supply of new areas that are a difficult
challange and contain good treasures. Perhaps have it
identified as 'a series of challanging caves' and when
you enter it it says something like 'you enter the most
difficult looking cave that you dare'

2- An alwase random town, that is leveled for the
player level (thereby containing lots of very expensive
items), it could be represented by a point on the map
that says 'traveling merchants bizarr' or something
like that.

3- An alwase random dungeon that is level for player
level, that alwase contains a random shop at player
level. This might be preferable to just a random town
to prevent item farming, by making the player run
through some hoops; but it also might just piss off the
player

4- A bookshop that contains all of the skill books in
the game, but at 100x there normal price; perhaps best
combined with 3, so that the bookshop is avalible at
any time but requires a run through a difficult dundeon
to get to. call the point on the map 'the long and
difficult road to the great library'

None of these are of terminal priority; but I think
they would greatly enhance the game.

in game help

Anonymous — Sat, 05 Nov 2005 16:22:15 -0000

a key sortcut list somhere in the game woud be very
useful, curently the only way to discover which keys do
what is to try them and see, which is anoying and time
conuming. also some info on what your skills achive
would help, curently players have no way of telling
weather a skill works yet or not, let alone what they
do. unless the efect is realy obvious they may miss
it, or arive on your forums with questions like:
"ive got true magic and spellcasting both at levle 8
but my spells are rechargeing realy slowly what do i
do? oh and whats that focus thing for anyway?"

the short of atenion span, frustrated by too many of
these problems may give up on tyrant entirely.

backwards compatability

compudave — Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:26:07 -0000

It would be nice to have some kind of option that would
convert a Tyrant save file from say for example, 0.333 to
0.334. And so on. The problem with this is it would have
to know what changed in each version. Maybe not
necessarliy in-game. Maybe a seperate downloadable
application?

Game file as command line argument

Victor Sotnikov — Sun, 13 Mar 2005 00:23:00 -0000

Hi All,

I propose to give user an ability to pass game file into
Tyrant application as command line argument:

java -jar tyrant-0.330.jar Tyrant.sav

Here are sources I changed to achieve this. I have not
committed them yet. The improvement works OK; but I
would like someone to review the changes first.

Thanks,
Victor

Monster suggestion

Dragonlady — Thu, 24 Feb 2005 19:52:33 -0000

There are lots of 'friendly' monsters in the game that are food , like
the rabbits, snails, etc. Why not add some ducks or geese and have
them only be on water tiles? You can go fishing, there are
canoes..why not go hunting for ducks? Other parts besides some
meat would be goose down, quill feathers (duck) and for a joke
maybe even a 'rubbery ducky'. Just a thought. :)

edit: I was told to post this here instead of in the developer area.

rune caster ability

TubbyTunes — Thu, 24 Feb 2005 04:52:05 -0000

At +3 rune lore and higher a runecaster can take a
blank runestone and toss it on a rune trap and the
runestone disarms/captures the ablities of the trap for
the runecaster to use.

whats new in this version

Victor Sotnikov — Tue, 15 Feb 2005 13:59:36 -0000

I think, Tyrant could display information whats new in
given version of the game. This information could be
provided using another item of the initial menu: one
where user asked to create new character, or load a
previously saved game; etc. Another item See whats
new in this version may be added into this menu.

Victor

Cancel kick command

Victor Sotnikov — Tue, 15 Feb 2005 13:08:16 -0000

Suppose I have selected kick command. I am
prompted to select direction; but in this moment I
decided NOT do it. I see no way to cancel the
command ESC does not work, at least.

If there is really no way to cancel kicking, I propose to
give user this ability by pressing ESC.

Thanks,
Victor

add auto-save function

Victor Sotnikov — Wed, 09 Feb 2005 20:04:05 -0000

How about adding auto-save function into the game
to save the game with user-specified periodicity. I think
it will be good for end user.

Annoyances

Jimmy — Sun, 16 Jan 2005 21:53:06 -0000

-Abilities
As a thief you don't get any bonuses for stealth or in
stealing items from a store. Several of the abilities
in the game have no purpose at all. The artisan class
isn't even attainable by any character in the game.

I don't like the weapon lore/Item lore cheesy stuff,
just make a counter. The more you use the skill the
better you get at it. That's how it should be for many
of the skills.

-Runes
Maybe it's just me but many of the runes you can make
don't seem to do anything at all no matter what your
skill in rune lore is or the item you use them on.
Also, you can't stack more abilities on an item. It's
either inscribed with one rune or another.

-Item Destruction
Why do you like to destroy crap so much? You accidently
step into the water, your item is destroyed! You
accidently step into the fire, a few of your items
were destroyed! Fire imp casts fire on you, he
destroyed 5 items! You read the scroll of drowkcab
sentences, some random item is distroyed. You read the
scroll of jibberish, many of your items are teleported
all over the screen. You find a trap. You try to disarm
it but you accidently trigger it and a flame spell
drains half your life and destroys your weapon.

-Cursing
As if the item destruction stuff doesn't make you
paranoid enough to save every 2 seconds, the cursing is
way too often. Your item is cursed! You can't take it
off. To remove it you have to read a scroll, but you
need the literacy skill or your screwed. You could
always get lucky and find a heavy manual which teaches
you literacy, but, oh wait, you can't read. What's the
point in a heavy manual of literacy then? The potion of
literacy is the only alternative, good luck finding it,
and when you do be sure to save or you might just
scatter your items or poison yourself testing scrolls
to see if you can find something to uncurse it. Holy
water is in pretty low frequency too.

Change the probability of having an item cursed.

- Weight
If you pick up items and there are several different
items in the same area you can pick them all up if you
have enough room in your inventory for the top item.
Cursing shouldn't drastically effect the weight you can
carry, but I think it does.

-Item Identification on Death
To see what items I have all I have to do is start
kicking people in town after I save.

-Townsmen
Once a townsman kills a monster or chases it, after the
monster is dead they walk onto the blood pool and never
move again.

-Arrows
You can shoot things in a dungeon not matter if there's
a wall in front of you, or you can see them, or not.

-Money Cap
There's a money cap of 50 gold for selling things.

-Pray
Praying only works twice, once to identify your items
and again to give an item. It's better not used in the
beginning. I haven't seen any other alters.

-Stuck
Two characters can get stuck if they meet at the doorway.

-Rune orc
If the auto map generator makes a verticle room with 1
width, you can just jump behind the rune salesman and
wait until he keep moving him forward until he's out
the door.

-Game script
You can't access it after you just died.

-Killing
Kill one person in the town and the whole town becomes
aware. This is especially annoying in a dungeon where
there's non hostile monsters and a store because if
your an archer shooting a bunch of goblins that are
walking around it's easy to kill the identical looking
NPC on accident.

-Food
There's a dungeon that's like 10 floors long and
there's rarely any food that fills the character that
is dropped.

-Dying
In the beginning it's easy to die if you get assaulted
by a bunch of rock throwers or magic users. The magic
users mainly because they destory half your items in a
few turns. Bugs are almost impossible to hit sometimes.
Jumping on them would be a good idea for damage.

-Pickpocket
Pickpocketting sucks. You can't get anything decent
except from the lady at the Inn to start you out with
some arrows. The rest are either impossible to steal
from or have stupid stuff like a million apples. The
only ones to get something decent from are the healers
in the town, but their stock of items to steal doesn't
regenerate.

Lockpicking-
There's nothing good in the towns enough to get a lock
pick. Usually you can just kick down the door without
anyone noticing. Kicking it down makes a lot more
sense, especially in dungeons.

-Dungeons
There are some places that have doors but 1 square of
space behind them.