bookrage, thanks for the report. When I transitioned the mission system it looks like it did not gracefully degrade old missions. I cloned your user, reproduced the problem, deployed a fix, and verified it fixes the problem. You may have lost your current mission. But, as a bonus, go another step east in the nave and you will find a new meditation room that reports your blessings and prestige, like you requested!

nolly, it uses a complex fuzzy logic match to try to work out what item you mean. But, you are right, it makes no sense for it to try to match something you can't equip. While deploying the patch above, I also slipped in a fix that I hope will prevent it matching ammunition for equip.

In the future, when you come up with problems specifying items in your inventory, you can say one, two, three, etc, to match the first, second, third, etc items. That's kind of a fallback to get around problems like this.

Further in the future, I know inventory management is a disaster. However, I think I have a solution now. Or, at least, something to make it less of a disaster. The current thought it to allows players to buy houses in towns. When your house is entered, you will have a number of storerooms that correspond to the different item types. Potions, scrolls, ammunition, hurled weapons, etc. When in that room, inventory will only list those specific items. It will then work kind of like a shop where you can drop and take items of that type and they will go from your inventory to that room. This will help you cut down on your gear without having to get rid of it.

If that all works, I also want to add the ability to buy shops. They will work the same, but the gear you divest of will be put up for sale.

Anyway. Patch deployed. Please try it out and let me know if there are any further problems. I really do appreciate you reporting the problems. I get e-mails when the program crashes. But they can often be hard to interpret without context. So this really helps a lot.

just a question, what is the difference between blessings and prestige, I have no blessings but 21 prestige and what determines them and the medals you can get with a god?

the first time I got a badge for patron it was actually for tithing, how does that figure into prestige?

okay, a couple things I've noticed.

I definitely have some blessings from Minerva as I can walk into the healing pool in her temple but she won't let me enter her knave.

I also know this because I'm lugging around an aegis of Minerva that I got from a temple I cleared.

Also, for some reason the temple missionaries for Neptune aren't doing any missions now when I go in there at all. Maybe I've just exhausted what they had to do but just thinking about it.

And lastly, a question, what gods are there on the alternate worlds? Is Iceland/Ysgard just Norse Gods or Ireland just Celtic or do they have regions of different faiths like the main premium world does?

@bookrage. You can only get into the nave of a temple if that god is your patron deity.

I will look into the missions setup. I've been meaning to code up some more missions. I'm on vacation for the next three weeks, so my time is a little more unpredictable than previously. But it's a city vacation, so I should be connected the whole time and actually get more done. (Right now I'm in an airport, so I can't jump on it right away!)

Ireland just has the Celtic gods and Iceland the Norse gods. I'll think about doing some sort of faction fighting thing in Ireland with different clans competing for the High Kingdship, and maybe an Aesir/Vanyr thing in Iceland. I'll ask around. My vacation is actually in Ireland and I'll be presenting to some local Alexa developer groups. I'll see what they think will be cool.

@nolly, I believe the internal cache is set to 15 minutes. So if a feature is unused for 15 minutes it is cleared from memory. The next time it is referenced it gets re-generated. This works for both dungeons and towns. The key is that they only get cleared if they aren't referenced. If you are in the town and actively using the game, then it still counts as being referenced and is kept in memory. So, yes, you do need to leave the town.

If you would rather see something more had-coded to 15 minutes, I should be able to change it to that if you think that makes for better gameplay.

The tedious exercise I picked for doing on the plane is to redo the monster treasure system. Up till now it's just been either nothing, or a random roll of gold based on the monster. I'm changing it to be more like the rule system. Monsters may carry a varying amount of copper pieces, silver pieces, and other coins. Plus gems, jewelry and magic items. (Everything with a cash value will be converted to gold just to keep the inventory simple.) If you meet the monster in the wilderness, there may be a chance to follow it to its lair where there will be the bulk of the loot. If you meet the monsters in a dungeon, then the lair treasure (if there is any) will be in the boss monster room.

Joquinta,

then that is strange because I've been doing stuff for Neptune and never announced what god I was working for, it just walked me right into the knave there. This is even more strange as I have not done this with any blessings from him as I have as far as I know never cleared a Neptune temple, whereas I have clared several, or at least a couple Minerva temples. They let me enter her healing pools though.

Sorry for the delay. Jet Lag is taking it's toll. Also, either my broadband here sucks, or it is just very slow to upload to US servers from Ireland, but it's really tanked the time it takes to roll out test versions. So this new treasure stuff is taking longer than I thought.

I will look into the 15-minute cache thing. The problem with making a hard 15 minutes is that I don't want it to chance while someone is in the middle of a dungeon. So I have to think a little about how I do it.

Currently the infirmary is the only way to reverse level drain. One slight game abuse: if you go outside a temple, wait 15 minutes, you can re-enter and clear it out again for another blessing.

I've logged the level-drain-to-zero as a bug. #419 If a vampire, say, level drains you down to zero, that character should turn into a vampire. It's just about the only way to permanently lose a character!

So if I clear out the same temple 3 times I should be able to use the infirmary? I currently have 5 blessings of Minerva, but only have the healing pool available to me.

The character that I had dropped to zero was against a Wraith, not sure if this matters.

Joquinta,

with the temples I went to, there was no confessional in any of them.

Also to Noli, perhaps  you have gone into a temple without an infirmary? I know of a temple that has a healing pool but no infirmary to Neptune and as far as I can tell, a nearby temple to Minerva doesn't have a healing pool even.

you're profoundly unlucky. I ran into some vampires once but they didn't manage to level drain me. other than that I've never encountered level-draining undead and such.

As for the premium area, I would highly recommendd it. It has a built up non-random world, and several others such as Iceland and Ireland. Also, if Greco-Roman myth isn't your thing, there's also areas dedicated to other pantheons, such as norse, celtic, mezoAmerican, elven, and such if you're  looking for something a little different. And if you want to traipse about other sorts of lands, you can do that too. There are more types of dungeons, towns have more variety, temples have more stuff to do like missionary quests, tithing, and becoming dedicated to a deity. There are also wizard towers that can bring your party members back to life, increase their stats, and maybe other stuff too.  and then there are portals that can take you to places like tundra worlds, desert worlds, or swampy worlds and stuff like that in addition to the real-world settings.

Plus, it's only $2 a month and Joquinta has been a dynamo on adding stuff despite it not getting them the profits they were hoping for. even on a fixed income, $2 a month is probably something we can afford.

Personally I've been loving a hands free game over a mud client. I can do my laundry, dishes and even prepare meals while playing the game. I've started using it while I am out and about on my phone using the Alexa app, which is fantastic while my wife is shopping, as I have to find things to keep me busy not being able to visually keep myself entertained looking at the merchandise.

This is of course just my preference and don't mind the few times Alexa has issues hearing me, but I for one probably wouldn't use it if it turned into a mud game.