Author Topic: Ultima V: General Discussion (Read 81321 times)

TIfanx1999 · « **Reply #615 on:** December 17, 2007, 05:20:00 pm »

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I know this is slightly offtopic but I was reading through alot of the older posts here. Ranman I didn't realize you had a one year old son and another child as well. Between family and work I don't know how you manage to work on this project as much as you do. That is very inspiring. I can understand why you want to retire from the ti community.

*Edit* The webpage with the gbc port of ultima III was pretty sweet. It's alot like what you are doing with ultima V. Im gonna see if it'll run on my gameboy color emulator on my nintendo ds

This post has been edited by art_of_camelot on 17 Dec, 2007, 23:39

Ranman · « **Reply #616 on:** December 17, 2007, 05:36:00 pm »

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I know this is slightly offtopic but I was reading through alot of the older posts here. Ranman I didn't realize you had a one year old son and another child as well. Between family and work I don't know how you manage to work on this project as much as you do. That is very inspiring. I can understand why you want to retire from the ti community.

Thanks art_of_camelot -- I really appreciate that! :thumbup:

There have been a few times where I thought about abandoning the project due to the sheer amount of work and level of detail this game has to offer. But... I did not want to throw so much of my invested time away -- believe me, it has been a lot of time too! :gah:

So, I have been sacrificing lots of sleep to get this game out the door sooner rather than later. :zzz:

Looks like beta testing will begin before the end of the year!

Ranman · « **Reply #617 on:** December 18, 2007, 05:42:00 pm »

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A few new things are now working...

- Food is eaten by every party member at 6am & 6pm.

- If you run out of food, your party will lose HPs (slowly starve to death).

- If you walk through the desert lands, players will eat food and water at a doubled rate.

- If you step in the noxious swamp lands, players could get poisoned.

- If you are poisoned, you will continue to lose HP every move until your player is cured. Players can be cured by the Healing shops, spells, scrolls, and potions.

- If you step on fire or lava tiles, you will lose HPs. But don't be scared to do this... you just might find something interesting.

- Sleeping players will now eventually wake up.

- If you attempt to navigate rough seas in something other than a frigate, then your party will lose HPs.

- If you attempt to navigate shallow water with a frigate, then the frigate will lose HPs. If the frigate's HP reaches 0, then the ship will sink and the entire party will die.

- If you are attacked at sea, you will not be able to flee... it will be a fight to the death.

- If you are victorious in combat with a pirate ship, then you will be the new owner of the pirate ship.

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DJ Omnimaga · « **Reply #618 on:** December 18, 2007, 08:33:00 pm »

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wow so close to 95% now, I can't wait to finally try this out on my 89t!

TIfanx1999 · « **Reply #619 on:** December 19, 2007, 06:35:00 am »

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So how does the flow of time work in this game anyways? You said that their is day and night and that time flows, but at what rate? I assume it is not real time so I was wondering how long it takes for a full day to pass in game time.

Ranman · « **Reply #620 on:** December 19, 2007, 06:58:00 am »

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So how does the flow of time work in this game anyways? You said that their is day and night and that time flows, but at what rate? I assume it is not real time so I was wondering how long it takes for a full day to pass in game time.

On a world map, each move is equivalent to about 4 minutes.
On all other maps, each move is equivalent to 1 minute.

The sun begins to rise around 5am and begins to set at 7pm. During the evening hours, your visibilty will be limited. Also, you will see the twin moons. Pay attention to the phases of each moon -- as this is what determines the destinations of the moongates (teleporters).

Liazon · « **Reply #621 on:** December 19, 2007, 11:06:00 am »

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On a world map, each move is equivalent to about 4 minutes.
On all other maps, each move is equivalent to 1 minute.

so use your time wisely ^^

that's really cool.

DJ Omnimaga · « **Reply #622 on:** December 19, 2007, 11:42:00 am »

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idk if it was asked before but is there a time limit to beat the game?

Ranman · « **Reply #623 on:** December 19, 2007, 03:35:00 pm »

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so use your time wisely ^^

that's really cool.

Yep... If you enter a town at night, most of the NPCs will be sleeping. So you may not be able to talk to any of them until morning.

Also, some towns have unlockable gates (called portcullises). If you don't leave in time you will locked in until morning -- and vice versa.

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idk if it was asked before but is there a time limit to beat the game?

The original Ultima V kept a total move count. The level of difficulty increases based on the total number of moves. So, if you sucked at playing the game, you could have a really low level player attempting to beat the big daddies. :knight:

My current plans for my version is to keep the game difficulty level based upon your current level. Does that sound reasonable?

TIfanx1999 · « **Reply #624 on:** December 19, 2007, 03:56:00 pm »

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I was wondering if you could run into such things like being locked out of town and not being able to get a room for the night. That could REALLY suck if you didnt have a sleeping bag and were low on health. The time based stuff remindes me of newer games like The Legend of Zelda ; Ocarina of time where you cant enter/leave town at night because they lock the gates. (unless you warp out of that area). I thinking keeping the difficulty based on the parties' current level will be fine.

Is it based on the parties' average level, or the main character's level?

Ranman · « **Reply #625 on:** December 19, 2007, 04:22:00 pm »

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I was wondering if you could run into such things like being locked out of town and not being able to get a room for the night. That could REALLY suck if you didnt have a sleeping bag and were low on health. The time based stuff remindes me of newer games like The Legend of Zelda ; Ocarina of time where you cant enter/leave town at night because they lock the gates. (unless you warp out of that area). I thinking keeping the difficulty based on the parties' current level will be fine.

Is it based on the parties' average level, or the main character's level?

You can always sleep in someone else's bed, but don't be surprised if you get thrown out when they find you sleeping in it.

My current plan is to keep difficulty based on the main character's level.

DJ Omnimaga · « **Reply #626 on:** December 19, 2007, 04:56:00 pm »

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i think the difficulty should be based on your level, but not too much. Make sure leveling up play a role still, kinda like in Final Fantasy 8

Ranman · « **Reply #627 on:** December 19, 2007, 05:09:00 pm »

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i think the difficulty should be based on your level, but not too much. Make sure leveling up play a role still, kinda like in Final Fantasy 8

Yeah... That is what I think too; which is my reason for deviating from the original version.

Hmmm... Leveling up? How do you do that if the king (Lord British) has been captured? I'm not telling.

Lord British himself always performed the action of leveling up your characters in previous Ultimas.

TIfanx1999 · « **Reply #628 on:** December 20, 2007, 10:39:00 am »

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If the main character's level tends to be higher than the rest of the parties usually (I don't know if you add party members as you go or if you keep one party from the begining of the game or not) I would base it on the parties' average level. If you have a static party that you keep throughout the whole game, levels shouldn't deviate from the main character much at all. In that case, the difficulty could easily be based on the main character.

Liazon · « **Reply #629 on:** December 20, 2007, 11:39:00 am »

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o.o

maybe you should offer both modes if you can. i think the original way increases replay value. or at the very least, it's kinda like calcrogue. you keep trying and trying to get past more levels.