2021-12-05 15:56:26

Since the version I played in wich the bug didn't show up was already more than one version behind the newest, I even couldn't say in wich version the bug came up first. I thought maybe it is a problem with the text, a change in the format or such? Maybe someone knows wich was the first version where the bug came up, so it would be easier for wastelander to look into it. I know for sure that this bug hadn't happened in the older versions I played and working with object navigation works, but it seems to me more unconfortable than having the text read automatically without missing letters and such. Hopefully there is a solution for that.

2021-12-06 18:26:51

Hey guys, so I've missed some conversations here but sorry I've missed so much!

I'm not very familiar with NVDA or how it works, but previously for the last few years i've not heard of such issues. Does anyone know what the problem is?

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2021-12-06 18:33:25

I've never been able to do anything to fix it concretely, it just comes and goes which is really frustrating.
One thing which I think would help allot is if you wrote some kind of script which when enabled, would remove all extra spaces from the game's text.  The longer the text, the less fits on the screen and the more sentences get broken up.
I'm not sure if that will fix this issue per say but it can't hurt.

2021-12-06 18:57:13

Could screen resolution have something to do with this?

2021-12-07 08:23:02

I have thought about a solution like a script wich defender allready menssioned. @Wastelander: The problem is, from what I see, that the text gets broken up at some points, wich means that, for example, NVDA beginns to read if already in the text and misses the beginning. In other situations, some words aren't read, for example, instead of do you want, it just reads do want. Sometimes, even letters aren't read, like instead of during, it reads only d ring and such. If someone else can describe it better, feel free to do so.

2021-12-08 22:02:06

Hi again, regarding the NVDA issue, Wastelander asked me if NVDA has changed, since warsim worked for me in previous versions. Does anyone know if something changed on NVDA's end or uses an older version to check? I haven't noticed any change wich could explain this behaviour.

2021-12-08 22:14:14

I do use an older NVDA version and haven't updated recently, and I have no issues with the game.

2021-12-08 22:41:46

Hello I have played this game before and quite love it a lot. Regarding the broken texts, yes, it's been doing this to me ever sence the latest version of NVDA came out so I'd have to go back and use my review kurser up a couple lines to reread some stuff. It's not the game's fault, I quite believe this has to do with NVDA and everything is set fine for me. It does this in a few terminal windows as well so it's not just here I'm seeing it. I use windows subsystem in bash a lot for sisadmin stuff and it sometimes does it in there as well.

Jonathan Candler, A.K.A, Jonnyboy

2021-12-09 03:25:46

as the saying goes, if not broken don't fix. and i think some of these recent nvda updates have actually made things inaccessible rather than improve. even generally it's also starting to affect websites and dialogue boxes.

2021-12-09 08:22:14

ah okay, i hope that will be fixed in newer versions of NVDA. Has this been reported to the devs already? And are the older versions still available on nvda's website, so I can downgrade for now?

2021-12-09 11:09:56

I asked around in the german NVDA mailing list. Maybe someone knows a solution even for the latest version. But just in case, where can I geht older versions of NVDA?

2021-12-09 17:57:12

Shame to hear it's an issue with NVDA

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2021-12-09 18:59:01

Hi guys, it seems that I have found the solution to the problem.
If NVDA reads some text incorrectly, such as letters within words wich are missing or similar, try the following:
In NVDA, under advanced Settings, there is a Dropdown menu for the diflib algorythm. Here, choose force diflib. That could solve the issue.

I just hope that the Settings have this Name in english, I translated them as good as I can.
best
Niklas

2021-12-09 20:01:06 (edited by JasonBlaze 2021-12-09 20:02:00)

man, thank you! looks like it fixs the thing! so far so good and smooth! thank you once again. and yes that is the correct translation smile

2021-12-10 01:56:51 (edited by defender 2021-12-10 01:59:25)

@Niklas
Holy crap that's random as hell, you must have gone through and tried literally everything LOL
Thanks for doing it though, I hope Huw will add that to the blind players text file.
I wonder when that setting became a thing? Because I'm still running NVDA 2020.4 and I don't see it.  Also, I hope it won't effect other things badly... If so it might be worth mentioning that users can create profiles that only launch when a certain program is active, and change settings for just that profile.

2021-12-10 08:14:58

@defender: Haha, yeah, i tryed a lot of things. And then, I asked in the german NVDA mailing list, where I got this tipp from. I posted the description to Huw as well, so he can put it into the text document. And the hint to create a profile for warsim in NVDA is a good tipp as well, maybe this tipp should be put into it as well. I will do that as well to make sure that nothing works badly. Cool that it helped, and you can bilive me, i am a very lucky man now, since it works fine. Warsim is one of the games I like the most and gets my favorite with each update.

2021-12-11 19:29:00

Thank you Niklas, will save your post for anyone having issues as I've heard the complaint from a number of people recently

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2021-12-11 19:32:12

Warsim 0.8.4.8 (THE 30K CELEBRATION UPDATE, 333 features)

Hello everyone, I've been working a while on this content update as a big thank you to everyone for their support in helping Warsim reach 30'000 copies sold online! For a text based kingdom management game in 2021, that is surreal to me and it means I can work on this passion project for as long as I need!

I set out to do a number of things to celebrate this fantastic milestone and one of those was to make a 300 piece update, unfortunately I overshot it a little, so I added a few more things to push it to 333!

* Here's a video announcement about the 30k - https://youtu.be/iErWH8hmt1o
* And Warsim is currently 30% off for the 30k milestone. Though I will say, don't get your hopes up for 100% off if we make it to the 100k milestone, hahaha

Without further ado, here is the first section of the update, a new interesting character that will occupy and explore the realm.

ELYK THE MADMAN (32 features)

Elyk the Madman is a new character you may encounter in Warsim. He's a perpetual drunk and a wildcard that once befriended can pop up on occasion all over the game and help you out. Once met you can go and get drunk with him at the Three Blades inn at the Artifact Market anytime using the new 'Drinking with a friend' system I've added to the game.

* Added new character to the game 'Elyk the Madman'
* Added ability to encounter Elyk in the Skullfields
* Added ability to encounter Elyk in the Blackmarket Dark Alley
* Added ability to encounter Elyk after buying a drink at the Dragon's Kneecap
* Added ability to encounter Elyk next to the guard gate in Darkdale
* Added ability to encounter Elyk after buying all of the boxes at Gohran's Artifacts
* Added Elyk appears randomly at the above locations each year
* Added Elyk to the Three Blades in after you meet him in one of the other locations
* Added ability to tell Elyk to begone (never see him again)
* Added ability to accept invite to drink with Elyk
* Added special screen if you try to drink with Elyk while already at max drunk level
* Added 7 random pre drink dialogues to Elyk
* Added random toast event to drinking with Elyk
* Added ability to suggest toasting with Elyk
* Added 10 random toast dialogues to Elyk
* Added 10 random drink buying events to Elyk
* Added rare random event 'Puke glass' to Elyk
* Added rare random event 'Dagger Scrawling' to Elyk
* Added rare random event 'Slap' to Elyk
* Added chance Elyk tells you a random story while drinking
* Added chance Elyk says a random dialogue while drinking
* Added special screen if you get too drunk while drinking with Elyk
* Added 5 random dialogues to Elyk for when you ask to stop drinking
* Added ability to ask Elyk to tell you a story
* Added 22 random Elyk dialogues
* Added 10 random Elyk stories
* Added ability to ask 7 different questions to Elyk
* Added Elyk entry fee event to Arena once you've met him
* Added Elyk riding a bear into battle random battle event once you've met him
* Added Elyk tapestry incident end of turn event
* Added Elyk life debt knight end of turn event
* Added Elyk goblin bet end of turn event

THRONE ROOM ENCOUNTERS (7 features)

Can never have too many of these, especially if you're the kind of person who deals with everyone in the throne room...*Shudders*

* Added throne room encounter 'Urine Bucket Crime'
* Added throne room encounter 'Fake Healing Potions'
* Added throne room encounter 'Egg the Castle'
* Added throne room encounter 'Dead Cult'
* Added throne room encounter 'I doth shout loudly'
* Added throne room encounter 'Makeshift watchtower'
* Added throne room encounter 'Trolls toll'

CHAMPION STATS SCREEN IMPROVEMENT (1 feature)

I saw a talk on game design recently that opened my eyes to instances where a generic number is used to convey something and it made me think, so I've added a new section to champion stat screens to show with extra text what sort of strength a champion is, there are now 13 different ratings a champion can be based on their total battlescore from Absurdly weak, puny and weak, up to Elite and Absurdly Powerful.

* Added 13 different strength indicator texts 'As strong as a soldier / Elite / Absurdly Weak' etc

BANDIT EXECUTION EFFECT (15 features)

It occured to me while watching a Warsim stream, that executing bandits in the throne room didn't have the effect it could, reducing bandit level. If you heard the king was giving the chop to every bandit in the throne room you might reconsider your ways!

* Fixed text bug with bandit execution event
* Added -1 bandit level drop if you select execute in 'Road robber' throne room encounter
* Added -1 bandit level drop if you select execute in 'Banditry' throne room encounter
* Added -1 bandit level drop if you select execute in 'Egg Stealer' throne room encounter
* Added -1 bandit level drop if you select execute in 'Guard killer' throne room encounter
* Added -1 bandit level drop if you select execute in 'Anarchist' throne room encounter
* Added -1 bandit level drop if you select execute in 'Peasant Killer' throne room encounter
* Added -1 bandit level drop if you select execute in 'Jester Killer' throne room encounter
* Added -1 bandit level drop if you select execute in 'Weapon Robber' throne room encounter
* Added -1 bandit level drop if you select execute in 'Caravan Robber' throne room encounter
* Added -1 bandit level drop if you select execute in 'Joker' throne room encounter
* Added -1 bandit level drop if you select execute in 'Farm Burner' throne room encounter
* Added -1 bandit level drop if you select execute in 'Bandit Revolt' throne room encounter
* Added -1 bandit level drop if you select execute in 'New gang' throne room encounter
* Added -1 bandit level drop if you select execute in 'Bandit Rebel' throne room encounter

THE WORDS OF HEROES (5 features)

Added some more words that can be said in the arena or in battle by heroes and champions!

* Added new champion insult 'I'll break your skull and drink the juice within!'
* Added new champion insult 'I'm gonna eat your fingers!'
* Added new champion insult 'I'll burp on your corpse!'
* Added new champion insult 'My sword is named death, and soon you shall meet it!'
* Added new champion insult 'And so we dance with death!'

NEW ITEMS (17 features)

A heap more items to discover in the world!

* Added 'a silver skull ring with black diamonds for eyes' (Worth 610 gold)
* Added 'a gold skull ring with emeralds for eyes' (Worth 350 gold)
* Added 'a steel skull ring with amber for eyes' (Worth 60 gold)
* Added 'a silver snake ring with emeralds for eyes' (Worth 350 gold)
* Added 'a silver snake ring with diamonds for eyes' (Worth 510 gold)
* Added 'a gold snake ring with emeralds for eyes' (Worth 390 gold)
* Added 'a gold snake ring with diamonds for eyes' (Worth 690 gold)
* Added 'a large black diamond' (Worth 650 gold)
* Added 'a strange floppy sword that is soft to touch' (Worth 110 gold)
* Added 'a small golden duck statue' (Worth 110 gold)
* Added 'a cactus made of gold' (Worth 256 gold)
* Added 'a cactus of tiny swords' (Worth 145 gold)
* Added 'a crude wooden statue of a rattlesnake' (Worth 7 gold)
* Added 'a frozen dragons tongue' (Worth 156 gold)
* Added 'a cursed gold nugget' (Worth 25 gold)
* Added 'a pair of lace stockings' (worth 10 gold) (credit Cat)
* Added 'a rabbit's foot' (worth 4 gold) (credit Cat)

HERO NAMES EXPANDED (246 features)

Name suffix additions are thing that can be added to random name suffixes. For example a character could be called Jorg the Ugly, but the suffix 'The Ugly' itself can be further randomised so it could be Jorg the Ugly Staffmaster, etc. With 100s of new additions to the many pre-existing name suffixes there are now 1000s more possibilities!

There were too many to include directly in the changelog so I've had to remove them, to see the full list of all 246 of them see this new wiki entry - https://warsim-the-realm-of-aslona.fand … fy=created

* Added 246 new hero name suffixes

BUGFIXES (3 features)

* Fixed issue with some drinking events being overwritten by Nairolfs Party drinking text
* Fixed raid system crash bug (credit u/ThusSniffedZizek42)
* Fixed champion banner bug

EVERYTHING ELSE (5 features)

* Removed two awful name suffixes (credit Leechgirl)
* Added 5 new arena insults
* Added 5 new kingdom names (Hyrkhan, Hyrkania, Losaria, Pridar, Trevara)
* Removed redundant screen in Blackmarket alley
* Added new reworked option for sending a soldier through the alley

WHAT'S NEXT

A lot more to work on after this little bout of celebrating, it was just too good a milestone to pass up! And again, thank you all who contributed to that figure, every single copy in that 30k is a chunk of this dream come true scenario for me so thank you from the bottom of my heart.

Viva Warsim

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2021-12-13 02:45:50

Warsim is 30% currently on both itch.io and steam for hitting the 30k milestone

https://itch.io/s/62311/30-off-to-celeb … 000-copies

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2021-12-13 08:20:53

Nice update and good to hear that you saved my post. It would be good if the blind players document will expanded with it. Haha, i played on the weekend and on the second year, a little bandit gang marched into my lands. The leader promised my dead and I crushed the gang with mercenary groups emidiately. Was funny. That leads me to my question: Will the mercenary group combats be expanded and updated as well, like the rest of the combat system. I ask because from what I saw and heared, it seems that it hadn't been redesigned yet. Keep up the great worl as always and congratulations for the 30K copies sold.

2021-12-13 12:06:04

Hello everyone, I seem to remember a game of thrones mod made for this game. Is it still available to play? And thanks smile

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2021-12-13 15:04:58

yeah, it was on post 404, and the link results in 404 not found as well big_smile funny coincidence. any chance the game will get more mod?

2021-12-13 18:02:03

Hey guys, Warsims 30k release has gone amazingly, I've had 100s more people pick the game up already and now I'm doing an Ask me Anything on reddit, I'll leave the link at the bottom of this post

@Niklas, yep the combat update release was only for major faction battles for now but I will be expanding it before I complete the combat update and move on.

@The best in the world, Ooh yes I'd love that

@Jason, That is funny haha, and I think there are definitely more mods on Warsims horizon

Link to the AMA - https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/commen … ment_game/

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2021-12-13 19:47:34

congratulations on the 30k sail. you rock dude. and I really hope I can find the game of thrones mod to this game lol

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2021-12-13 21:35:49

It would be cool if the game of thrones mod, if it gets found again, will be included into the game like the other mods in one of the next updates.