Lone Wolf New Order 1.5.0

[Rob Rendell]

Playing through book 3, I noticed a number of times where the book text said there was a special item you could take without discarding any special items if you are at the limit (such as the Baron's scroll or the riverboat tickets), but the app wouldn't let me take them until I discarded something.

Fortunately, I discovered that I was still carrying the Moonstone from the end of book 2, so I had something I could drop... "Oh, this old thing, won't be needing that *toss*"

Some other random thoughts/observations:

• I don't know how much of a change it would require to your code, but (for me at least) it would be nicer if the buttons to adjust your character stats (lose 3 endurance, gain 5 crowns, eat a meal etc) actually occurred in the middle of the flow of text, rather than having the instruction hanging over me unfulfilled until I finish reading the entire page.
• In the "Eat a meal" dialog, if you have Grand Huntsmastery, the option to lose 3 Endurance should probably be disabled.
• If you're in a "choose items" dialog and you've taken everything available, it probably shouldn't pop up a "are you sure you want to return to the section page?" confirmation when you say you're done.
• When you have the option to buy arrows, the first time the button is rendered it says "1 GOLD CROWN (n ARROWS REMAINING)", but after you've bought one it changes to "1 GOLD (n-1 ARROWS REMAINING)".  The shorter form is probably fine the first time too.  You could also save some space by leaving out the word ARROWS, since it's already listed as Arrows on the left hand side.
• The most common time for the app to crash for me is when I push the button when my items are being confiscated or returned, or when I'm dropping something.  Sometimes when dropping things I believe the button doesn't update to a disabled state immediately, so I push it again, at which point it crashes.  The app always picks up from where it left off though, and the second time the confiscate/return button works fine.
• I've had the "You have used up your 10 points of healing" message appear in a section which I started at full health.  I did just heal up in the previous section though (using a button which restored 3 Endurance before proceeding).  Looks like it might be using up your healing sometimes when it's not needed.
• "Mydnight's Hero" section 46: tells you to restore 3 Endurance, but there's no button to add 3 Endurance at the bottom of the page.

[gnaaag]

Hi, I have a bug to report:

Book 2
Section 102
The option is for restoring 4 END even though I was offered to take 2 laumpspur poitons. So the option should be to take items.

Thanks for a great job. It is really a pleasure to play the books in your app. The only thing I miss is some kind of savegame. I had to replay the first book at least ten times because of the instant-death on random number in the arena.

[t0pel]

Jun 11, 2018 8:57:35 GMT Rob Rendell said:

Playing through book 3, I noticed a number of times where the book text said there was a special item you could take without discarding any special items if you are at the limit (such as the Baron's scroll or the riverboat tickets), but the app wouldn't let me take them until I discarded something.

Fortunately, I discovered that I was still carrying the Moonstone from the end of book 2, so I had something I could drop... "Oh, this old thing, won't be needing that *toss*"

Some other random thoughts/observations:

• I don't know how much of a change it would require to your code, but (for me at least) it would be nicer if the buttons to adjust your character stats (lose 3 endurance, gain 5 crowns, eat a meal etc) actually occurred in the middle of the flow of text, rather than having the instruction hanging over me unfulfilled until I finish reading the entire page.
• In the "Eat a meal" dialog, if you have Grand Huntsmastery, the option to lose 3 Endurance should probably be disabled.
• If you're in a "choose items" dialog and you've taken everything available, it probably shouldn't pop up a "are you sure you want to return to the section page?" confirmation when you say you're done.
• When you have the option to buy arrows, the first time the button is rendered it says "1 GOLD CROWN (n ARROWS REMAINING)", but after you've bought one it changes to "1 GOLD (n-1 ARROWS REMAINING)".  The shorter form is probably fine the first time too.  You could also save some space by leaving out the word ARROWS, since it's already listed as Arrows on the left hand side.
• The most common time for the app to crash for me is when I push the button when my items are being confiscated or returned, or when I'm dropping something.  Sometimes when dropping things I believe the button doesn't update to a disabled state immediately, so I push it again, at which point it crashes.  The app always picks up from where it left off though, and the second time the confiscate/return button works fine.
• I've had the "You have used up your 10 points of healing" message appear in a section which I started at full health.  I did just heal up in the previous section though (using a button which restored 3 Endurance before proceeding).  Looks like it might be using up your healing sometimes when it's not needed.
• "Mydnight's Hero" section 46: tells you to restore 3 Endurance, but there's no button to add 3 Endurance at the bottom of the page.

I have changed the way I record the item size in the new version (I will release it tomorrow), so it should now work correctly. Moonstone will also get removed at the end of book 2.

I have included points 2, 3 and 4. I have no idea why the crashes are happening during the actions you have mentioned, the buttons should behave the same as anywhere else. I will look into it more, thank you for the report. Regarding the healing message the problem was that the app actually showed the message during the next section after the limit was reached, I have fixed that now. I have fixed section 46 as well, not sure how that slipped by.

Regarding the first point, that was my original idea too, but unfortunately I started developing this app as part of my bachelor thesis and some of the code base leaves much to be desired... But I am afraid to really dig too much into it now in case I break something, so the order of buttons will stay like this at least for now.

[t0pel]

Jun 15, 2018 18:28:44 GMT gnaaag said:

Hi, I have a bug to report:

Book 2
Section 102
The option is for restoring 4 END even though I was offered to take 2 laumpspur poitons. So the option should be to take items.

Thanks for a great job. It is really a pleasure to play the books in your app. The only thing I miss is some kind of savegame. I had to replay the first book at least ten times because of the instant-death on random number in the arena.

Hi, thanks for reporting this, it will be fixed in the next release coming tomorrow. In the new version there will also be an option to purchase a save slot for a small price of $0.99, hope that will work for you :-)

[t0pel]

May 28, 2018 6:44:38 GMT aggsol said:

Great work you are doing here. Do you mind adding different fonts like Garamond for easier reading. On my tablet the lines get pretty long, how about an option to change the font size? Thank you!

Hi, there will be new options for font family and font sizes in the new version, although it will still be limited to allow support of older Android devices. Let me know if it works for you.

EDIT: Actually, it is possible for me to add more fonts if they are in this library. I have added two Garamond fonts that are available there, let me know if you would prefer another one.

[aggsol]

Jun 26, 2018 19:16:55 GMT t0pel said:

May 28, 2018 6:44:38 GMT aggsol said:

Great work you are doing here. Do you mind adding different fonts like Garamond for easier reading. On my tablet the lines get pretty long, how about an option to change the font size? Thank you!

Hi, there will be new options for font family and font sizes in the new version, although it will still be limited to allow support of older Android devices. Let me know if it works for you.

EDIT: Actually, it is possible for me to add more fonts if they are in this library. I have added two Garamond fonts that are available there, let me know if you would prefer another one.

I have no menu and no settings to change anything. How do I change the font settings?

Never mind, the update appeared just now!