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I thought the 'formation = yes' option was the default, and has been for a few years (since nobody liked the way Exult used to have the companions wandering randomly).

Very nice!

It's probably an Exult bug, and I'm sure I've seen it before. But I can't remember if it has to do with finding the bed or our implementation of the 'nap_time' intrinsic. I'll have a look when I get the chance.

The special schedule changes can be done in usecode (the script that drives the plot). This is done a lot in SI where there's a special call for changing an NPC's schedule.

Eating: They're supposed to get served food, and I know it used to work. Is it broken recently?

It's all in C++. Feel free to browse the source, which is available from SourceForge.
And thanks!

You would need EA to make it possible to have U7 on the IPhone, either using the original source or Exult. And there's probably too little profit in it for them to take notice.

Exult's quite a memory hog, especially compared to the original. I'm guessing it uses at least 20Mb. It would be a lot of work to reduce this, and the memory being put into small devices is increasing so fast that I don't think anyone wants to spend the time.

As long as we don't add the "going to sleep and then having to reboot DOS" bug.

Plus, there are the groupies.

Very nice! Stones is my favorite.

Uh, oh... I'm having bad flashbacks from trying to land the spacecraft in Ultima 1.

Then there's the Kilrathi to worry about.

Oops! 7 years? Most software expires before then.

I recall setting weak party members to 'flee' until I could get their stats up. The halo, if I remember correctly, sets one party member to be protected by the others. I'm not sure how well this works in Exult (and I don't think it did all that much good in the original, either).

We'll even accept patches if you happen to find a bug.

Okay, fixed a couple things:
1. The invisible dragons now attack.
2. There was another problem where if you were just out of range of a dragon, it wouldn't attack, but wouldn't approach to get closer. This is, I think, fixed now.

I think I'm still seeing drakes attack each other, though.

I finally got the latest code, and am seeing the same problems as Malignant Manor, where invisible monsters don't attack, and others, like the Drakes, will attack each other. Slightly more minor, but I notice that when a dragon becomes invisible, it doesn't happen smoothly, but one block at a time. ...

Sounds like a bug that got introduced recently. I'll try to take a look this week.

Yes, it's supposed to be saved permanently, so this looks like a bug.

I'd say development is slow because there's not much to do. You can play BG and SI with few problems, and that's what we worked so hard for in the earlier days. Now we developers are semi-retired, spending our days on the beach sipping pina coladas, signing autographs for the pretty young ladies who...

Okay, fixed just now, so you should see it in the snapshot in a day or two. There was also another bug, where the bodies would appear on top of the ice blocks, but the blocks themselves weren't destroyed.

I think I've got this fixed, first by avoiding catching the flag in the first place; and second, by not hanging/crashing if you have caught the flag. Of course, by changing the way things are gathered up for the carpet and other 'barges' (ships, ice-raft), there's a >slight< chance I could have brok...

Along with what Andrea said, most of the work in the last couple of years has involved support for mods. As far as playability, we fix bugs now and then; but overall, I think it's pretty solid for playing U7.

Thanks for pointing that out. I know it's been a problem in the past, and I'll try to take a look into fixing it later this week.

Does anyone make non-3D games anymore, other than for handhelds like the GameBoy? I'd expect any new single-player Ultima PC-game would be 3D. That wouldn't necessarily be bad, as long as they support schedules and a party as well as was done in U7. As for the Avatar, they could... 1. Have it take p...

Just fixed it. Thanks for the report!

I hope the recent changes I made for detecting "blocking" weren't the problem...

You're probably better off using the snapshots. There's no written "roadmap" for 1.4, but we're generally looking to get hardcoded data out of the game and into datafiles, with support in ExultStudio.

"Pentagram unlike exult can chain 2 scalers together and can scale differently in X and Y. "

Oh, good, more work to do!:-) Is this a new algorithm?

Thanks! But I think lately, Marzo's the only one doing hard work!

Maybe Lord British needs to keep that stuff so he can afford all those expensive trips he goes on, like the one into space.

About the higher lifts: I finally got to the point where I realize that there's a fair bit of work to do. Changing the file formats won't be too hard, but detecting when objects block tiles will have to be rewritten, since the current system assumes lifts 15, you'll get a red X, or the object will e...

Yes, I've got to do a bit more work. Damn these real-world activities!:-)

A little off-topic, but how do you like your eeepc? Does Exult run at a reasonable speed on it?

I don't recall seeing it in the original, either.

Well, we do know when we're indoors, since that's how we know not to display the roofs. So we have the potential to do the lighting better. It's just a matter of doing the work.

I played around just a little, raising a tree up to around lift 32 or so, and it looked okay. But I imagine there will be a fair amount of work in the renderer. For one thing, we probably don't even look at chunks beyond a certain distance from the bottom and right of the screen, but now we'll have ...

Colourless is correct, and I was playing around with this over the weekend. We will need to change the file formats again to accomodate higher z-coords.

One question: Would 255 be a reasonable limit?

It's not supposed to do that. What do you mean by "compatibility mode"? Are you running Exult, or Dosbox?

Fixed as of last night. Thanks for pointing this out!

Thanks. I'll try to fix this in the next few days.

No, they shouldn't ever be walking on water.

Just checked in some changes that should help (and hopefully not break anything). NPC's that want to talk to you will walk faster and check for when you're close, so it's harder to run past.

I think we've had this problem before. Actually, we've probably never gotten it right. I'll try to look into it this weekend.

Heh! I needed a laugh. That was great!

I believe the food frames are currently hard-coded, so that's something we need to fix.

Is this problem (skimpy animals) still happening? I tried killing a deer in the latest snapshot of BG, and there were 5 roasts, as expected.

They should be. If not, please report it as a bug. We always try to be compatible with older savegames.

Glad you got it working. You should also be able to set the path to gimp form a dialog box in ES ("properties" or "setting", I think).

I'll see if it happens in the latest build tonight.

Thanks for the report. Although we might want to fix those random crashes.

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