well I have tryed the game, it's nice
the other think that I want to see is you could buy or craft a weapons, (materials from mining maybe?) or... if you not planning to add a weapon, maybe you could add a  diffrent kind of attacks, like kick. or a combo skills.
and yeah combat is so easy now...

this game can improve a loooooot more, may be as much to  the level of random adventure roguelike. We lack this kind of game with enough contents really.

Hi.

Well I'm glad to see the game is still being developed, that's good, and I certainly like the new movement system and several of the additions, I think this could be a great game if development continues.

First, a couple of miner bug reports. To start, I harvested 3 graine and went into the mill to grind it, but when I went to grind 3 graine the game just hanged. I must've waited a good ten minutes, but finished up having to close the program with the task manager. Then, on a less crytical point the music is waaaaay to quiet, it's a shame since it'd be nice when getting those stings for random events if the music was a bit more noticeable, indeed the music in the game looks good for atmosphere, especially now it's necessary to wander around more.
I also don't know if it's a bug or just incredible bad luck on my part, but even though i was in the sewer for quite some time and had enough fights to finish the first combat level and get up to 18 experience with the second, I only encountered 3 rats for the quest. If the quest is to be doable, I'd recommend upping the chances of rat encounters, unless again this is a bug given that I encountered the thee three rats relatively quickly at the start then didn't run into any at all.

Now for some comments.

First, combat:

I do like the initiative system, but it needs a bit more to it, since right now it comes down to sitting around, pressing one button and waiting for the god of random numbers to favour you, even if your not going into a really hard core tactical rpg as you said in the first post.

The essential problem with combat right now, is that it's all random and there's nothing to calculate or risk. When you hit you just hit, when you block you just block, you don't really get much to think about or worry about, you just wait for the god of random numbers to favour you.

My suggestion therefore is to introduce a couple of other options.
I don't know how you calculate the current block vs hit chances, but it'd be nice if there were a couple of other options possible. Eg, a different sort of attack that had more chance of being blocked but did more damage, or an attack that was less easy to stop but did less, and likewise a parry or  reposte option for blocking that could damage the enemy but was less likely to be successful, that would make combat require a bit more thinking.

You could also think about having cumulative damage type systems, look at kerkerkruip for some great examples, though I'd imagine those would be harder to program, still the more options in combat the better.

Fishing I like the idea of waiting for a bight, but again, another option would be good here. What I'd suggest is the choice of whether to give the fish slack or try to land it, rather like real fishermen do.
So when you get a bight you can choose whether to try and pull the fish in immediately, or to pay out line to give more slack. if you give the fish slack, there is a chance of it going missing, but if not, your more likely to pull it in. This might be especially good if the descriptions could indicate how strong the tug on your line was.

Looking forward to seeing where this one goes, we could certainly do with a game like this.

Hi pelantas.

I did try hitting the s key, I used it to stop harvesting but it didn't seem to work, and I didn't hear any announcements that I'd finished grinding, so goodness knows what is happening there.
Annoyingly it probably also means that I'll have to restart from scratch again, but there you go.

I didn't notice the lag in time to respond to blocking or hitting, mostly I think because the half second is more than long enough, but I wouldn't recommend cchanging this because ewe don't need another boppit style arcade grinder. 

I've been having some thoughts about the combat, and one idea might work like this, though it'd need another action called withdraw.
At the moment when you or the enemy hit successfully, you get another hit unltil your blocked. Well it'd be really interesting if you had to decide whether to try hitting again or not.
My thought is something like this. When a hit is successful, the damage on the next hit goes up, but so does the chance of being blocked, and if your blocked, you take extra damage instead of the enemy.

So for example combat starts and you have the initiative.
You do between 1-3 damage if you hit, and the enemy has a %20 chance of blocking.
On the next hit, you do between 2-4 damage a hit, but the enemy has a %40 chance of blocking, and if the enemy blocks, the enemy's next hit will do 2-4 damage.

If you hit again, your third hit will do between 3-5 damage, but have a %60 chance of being blocked, and if blocked the enemy will do 3-5 damage instead.

If at any time you want to bale out and reset the damage to zero, you can hit withdraw instead of block. if you withdraw, you will give the initiative to the enemy, however you won't obviously take damage from being blocked.

This system also has the potential to increase when you get more combat skills and levels, eg, increasing your base chance of being blocked or of blocking the enemy, or decreasing the chances the enemy blocks your attack (for example learning aggressive fighting might have the chance of blocking start at %15, then go up %30, %45 etc).

The other modification I'd suggest if you choose to try this route, would be letting you quaf defensive potions while blocking, since otherwise you could potentially be wiped out in a few hits by enemy's increasing damage, though obviously the same should go for the enemy too.

If you do introduce classesI'd personally not like to be locked out from certain skills or certain things to learn by my class, since I've never been a fan of that. So, perhaps a farmer class could start with some extra harvesting and grinding skill, and a warrior class with more combat skill, but obviously either could learn.

As to fishing, I'll explain what I mean.

When you get a bight, you have a choice of trying to pull it in immediately, or paying out some slack on your line.
If you pay out some slack, the fish might get away, but equally after you pay out some slack the fish will be more tired, so when you try to pull it in, your more likely to land it, and obviously you can pay out slack more than once.

So to give some numbers, say at the start with no fishing skill you had a %40 chance of landing a fish if you pull it in. If you give it some slack, it has a %30 chance of getting away immediately, however for every time you successfully give the fish some slack, your chance of pulling it in goes up by %20.

This would be an especially good system if you got an idea whether you were trying to catch a big, medium or small fish, eg, you got a strong, weak or medium pull on the line, with big fish harder to pull in without giving them slack, eg, a big fish might have only a %10 chance of being pulled in first time with no ishing skill.

Hope you like the sound of this.

As I said, I'm really interested to see where this game goes.

I have also one idea. It will be great to support for some screen readers, not just Sapi. For example for NVDA.

Hi,

thanks for the feedback guys.

About screenreader support ... i have tried to implement it with brian kurosawa, but i thought the conclusion was taht the game should be rewritten from scratch to implement it correctly. So, @brian kurosawa, feel free to correct me if i am wrong.

I don't feel like to rewrite the game only for screenreader support if sapi also can do the trick. when it can be added more easy then my asumption is now, then i will be glad to hear, then i will be glad to add it as well.

greetz mike

hello there
it is a great game indeed, but i have 2 suggestions
1 add some more sound effects
2 add support for 2 of the screenreaders at least because the sapi voice is crappy
thanks and keep up the good work