Minkata Shard Update Saturday October 13, 2012

[rarified]

It sounds as if Skoader has come up with some fixes for a few of the bugs reported so far. If all goes as anticipated, in the next 24-48 hours we will be able to push an updated Minkata client out to the server.

So as the signs on the Colorado highways coming down from the mountains say

• "Truckers (testers!) you're not down yet! Ten more miles (days) of steep hills to go. Check your brakes (bugs!)"

Stay tuned!

_R

[Tai'lahr]

Hey, I have what I think is a fun idea for the event on Saturday: a Firemarble Race through the hood. I've chosen what I think is the easiest, but still somewhat challenging route. Would anyone be interested in entering something like this? And, would anyone be interested in helping me to test out the idea before Saturday?

[Treehugger]

It sounds as if Skoader has come up with some fixes for a few of the bugs reported so far. If all goes as anticipated, in the next 24-48 hours we will be able to push an updated Minkata client out to the server.

R

Great work, but will we lose Wigglefly? It's such fun! I used it in Ahnonay Cathedral and it was more like swoopfly - I drifted up and down the corridor and round the room where you link in, as I gained height, until I went through the roof; and in Ercana city silo I went round in circles as I rose. I'd better make the most of it while we still have it!

[Mac_Fife]

I don't know if Wigglefly will disappear in this update, but it'll need to go at some point - although undoubtedly fun, it isn't what was intended. Yesterday, I managed to fly out from the landing by the Kahlo Pub, over the lake to the top of Kerath's Arch. Twice, so not a fluke. Incidentally, I didn't "wiggle" on those flights.

[janaba]

Haha, Mac, that sounds really cool ... and yes, you're right, I never wiggled either,
when flying straight around or just up, up and away ... The wiggling just happens
when hovering one feet above the ground or so ...

Edit: I just thought it'd be nice to have the detected issues more highlighted in this looong Wiki list,
that's why I've just bolded those additionally ... like this you see that there's not so much left to look
into anymore ...

[Ehren]

As far as I've experienced it right now it couldn't happen by chance, so, I also wonder
how that happened, Ehren

BTW, I don't know if I'd say it happened by chance, but I certainly didn't know it would happen before it did... But I think I was bound to find it because of how I jump around and mess with things, is it that weird to try stuff like that?

[Mac_Fife]

... is it that weird to try stuff like that?

On a "test shard" such as Minkata is intended to be, not only is it "not weird" it's kinda "required". Many times, there's not a whole lot of value in testing by playing the game the way it's supposed to go and it's easy to fall into the trap of just running through the age solutions. Usually the change author will have tested the more "normal" cases pretty well before the change even gets on Minkata so there's often little to find there. It's doing the oddball things, the blind experimentation that a new player who doesn't know the solutions might try, that reveals bugs: Clicking wildly on anything and everything, trying to climb on things that look vaguely climbable, doing things in the wrong order, etc.

[sut]

Boy did I take my vacation at the wrong time !!! I leave and all the great stuff happens GRR !! oh well cant wait till i get back at testing game

[Tai'lahr]

Well, you returned just in time, sut. There will be plenty of testing to do once the fix is in. Hopefully, several testers will do some extensive testing right away so we can either prove that this update is good to go or have time to get another fix in before the deadline.

So... no takers for a firemarble race?

[Annabelle]

EDIT:... Say? I think we can only go up with that wigglyfly isn't it? I will test it once I recover Minkata shard...

One day you receive a PM by Tai'lahr and you know something must be done, you feel a sudden urge to log on a random shard... There are plenty, which is the best I should choose...

Let me see... hmm Ehren's wigglyfly was it that?

I had a dream the other night here are the things I've done:

1) climb on top of high stalagmite near the library cliff
2) climb on top of the stalagmite next to the previous one which is even taller
3) climb on rooftop of library (red part)
4) climb on top of tokotah rooftop
5) climb on high balcony in Kirel
6) climb on top of the hole on rotating platform in Gahreesen (1st building)
7) climb on top of spike pillars (6 of them) over the prison way way way over anything in Gahreesen
8) had a picnic (<-- had to take a lunch) on top of Er'cana canyon
9) climb on top of every tall Delin Trees (not the pink ones lol the tall ones)
10) do some space exploration (Janaba already did it) there are over 40 floating rocks out there
11) land under the Kadish Sculpture in a safe spot (the black box of Ahnonay) in Ahnonay's 4th Sphere
12) many other things I don't recall ...

Some dreams must be lived, and that is the time

Annabelle is back on Minkata shard before the fun expiration time

Thx Ehren & Tai'lahr (to let me know)