Re: [Dr-theobold-discuss] Great so far, one hangup, and the mud takes a while.

[Christopher Howard]

Hi, thanks for the feedback.

You were right about the tunnel paths. I've fixed that now in the
development code. You can continue to beta test with beta-r1 though.

I'm not quite convinced about the mud puzzle complaint... It seems like
your problem really was the failure to make a creative leap of
intuition and consider the possibility that you might have to try
pulling up more than once — that you were too "stuck" on one particular
solution. But as you say, it might be interesting to see if I get lots
of complaints about this in the future. 

On Thu, 2017-08-24 at 18:19 -0800, Alaskalinuxuser wrote:
> Having fun playing through this!
> 
> As a point of discussion, getting stuck in the mud was a real pain in
> the sub. Once stuck, I started a series of attempts to get unstuck,
> but after the variants to the power of 8, I had to look at the code
> to "cheat" and read the answer.
> 
> I started like this:
> 
> East up
> West up
> E e u
> E w u
> W e u
> W w u
> E e e u
> E e w u
> E w e u
> Etc, until I was on w e w e w w w e u, and I gave up. (That's
> 2*2*2*2*2*2*2*2 or 256 attempts.)
> 
> So, then I saw my error which was that up will not be the last
> command. So, my question is, how hard is that puzzle for others? With
> the answer in hand, that would be (3*3*3*3*3*3) combinations to find
> the answer, or 729 possible attempts to find the answer.
> 
> Not knocking the game, it's very fun! I just wonder if that puzzle
> might be better worded with a clue to help you out of it?
> 
> Also, a slight problem with room layouts in the sub.
> 
> ! Spoiler alert !
> 
> So, the submarine tunnel layout, to the best of my knowledge looks
> like this:
> 
> 5
> 4 3 1 2
> 
> So, when you start at 1, you can go east once, to a wall at 2.
> Then you go west once, back to 1. Then west two times, and north once
> to 5.
> 
> So here is the oddity, but I'm not sure of it was an error, or
> design.
> 
> If I am at 5, go south, I am at 4. From 4, if I go east, I am
> immediately at 2, the wall. Now, since I'm at 2, I can go west once
> to 1. But, from 4, I should go east once to 3, then east again to 1,
> right? Or by going east from 4, do I suddenly go east continuously
> until stopped by the wall at 2?
> 
> That's why I'm not sure if that is an error. If so, I can add it on
> the bug tracker.
> 
> Great game so far. Now if I could only read the formulae from the
> garden. I couldn't because I took a nap! ;)
> 
> 
> I did have one "oddity" that I was not sure about.
> -- AlaskaLinuxUser
> 
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