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Playing through SI again, this time with the SI fixes. Came across a few bugs/issues:

- palette isn't changing to night time: for some reason it seems to behave like a torch or light source is nearby, when there clearly isn't.

- random crashes? Not sure why

- "gypsy song" not playing after you wake up. The song should play when you wake up from a normal bed (not a bedroll) shouldn't it?

- when i started the game, the portrait for "whats his name at the front gate" (Flicken?) didn't show during some parts of the conversation. I think that might be an easy fix as I've come across it before when i didn't have item.say() at the beginning of the npc conversation and merely say()

- Dishes pile up in the taverns. I am using the current exult version.

I forgot my info for officially posting a bug report so thought I'd do it here

Flicken is strange as SI fixes does not touch his usecode.

And you can have sourceforge reset your password

Ok got most of them added to the bug tracker, except for the random crashes since I'm not sure what causes it yet or what might trigger it. I also added a new bug where on Monk Isle the bell sound effects fail to play when the monks move around and bark "The bells!" and so on. In the original, a song would play as if bells were being rung in a certain way.

Just to make sure, are you using the semi-latest SI Fixes from our download page (semi because there is one fix for the Monitor Inn not yet in that snapshot).

And for the nighttime bug, please provide a savegame if you haven't already.

I cannot confirm the nighttime problem.
Once I was far enough from all light sources and had no light source equipped it was pitch dark at 1am

Hmmm I'll try it again to be sure. How do I submit a savegame, where do I find the file? (Using win XP on this comp).

See http://exult.info/docs.php#path_config_nt5 as for where to find the savegames (although I think when the example gives the savegame path for mods, there is a "saves" subfolder).
To submit a savegame, go back to your bug report and attach a file.

And are you sure about the food thing? When I load old games that still have all the food overflow there it's still a problem but with a fresh game, sitting around the Slashing sword it seems to work correctly.

Yeah you were right on the light thing, i stripped the avatar's inventory and I guess it was the lightning whip haha.

The dish problem was still there even when I restarted my game with the latest snapshot.

Caltrops don't do damage to other npcs/monsters. Not sure if this is SI Fixes specific or if it was fixed in the main game yet. Should I post it on the bugtracker or was it already there?

I recently fixed the caltrops (and other fields) and they should do damage even in si fixes.

About Flicken, I did some tests and this is again not an SI Fixes bug but a bug in Exult generally.
But strangely I can only reproduce it when I bypass the Thoxa/Copy protection scene.

Edit: nope, it's not the copy protection, it seems like it only happens when Avatar and Flicken are at some kind of weird position towards each other. May be a regression, it's a pain to test

He he, that bug is rather interesting
What happens is that in r7378 we fixed a regression that would put Exult in a loop when schedules changed to patrol or so.
Through this we somehow put a spotlight on this bug which would normally not trigger at all or only in some very few cases.
the conversation is disappearing because Spektor's schedule is triggering conv->clear_answers(); inside Usecode_internal::call_usecode()

So many thanks for bringing this to attention!

Back to the waiter schedule:
With which taverns do you have problems?
I started a new SI Fixes game, played through until I talked to the clan chiefs in the crypts and then went to the inn and left Exult running for a couple of hours (the first time the party died of hunger until the evening, so I made sure to be in god mode ).

Nothing piled up.