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I've made a list of requests that have been posted many times. Please don't post them again! I will be adding things as I find them, but here is a few I have already found.


• No more queens. I myself posted one and feel the shame. Arn't roach queens enough?

• No pushable items. Don't be the person to post the next 'pushable' topic.

• Nothing that goes against the 'Guy with big sword kills stuff' rule, eg. weapon changing, weapon disappearing, extra weapons, you get the picture. Sounds cool, but, .

• Nothing that can be picked up and able to be used in more than the room it was in. Each DROD room is separate.

•No lights, lasers, or mirrors.

• No ray guns* or anything that could entice someone to mention them.

• No randomness. DROD is a lot about thinking ahead, and randomness destroys that.

*Set aside an hour to laugh about all the things people have posted in that thread!

Never mind.

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One reason not to request things on that list is that at least three of them already are in TCB.

In general, though, please do not post threads requesting other people do not make feature requests. While everyone is a bit tired of a few things that get asked to over and over, people should feel free to post whatever request they want. It's worthwhile pointing out that some ideas are not new, and that Caravel is not likely to put some stuff in, but as you'll discover soon, sometimes decisions change.

So, for new posters, please consider this "a list of things everyone heard before, more than once", rather than "a list of things not to post". And Jason, you might want to reword parts of it (including the title) in that light.

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Oh. Right. Well I reworded it. Hope this works.

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What would be better than this list would be a list of all the feature requests.

That way everyone would know what not to re-post about.

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Or people could just scan through the 39 pages of feature requests on this board with about the same effort as checking everything on the list (including same things with different names)!

Or maybe they could try a few clever searches before posting.

Feel free to waste your time. It's not worth it.

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Doom wrote:
Or maybe they could try a few clever searches before posting.

With our search engine, one would have to be on the extreme end of the IQ scale.

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Jatopian wrote:

Doom wrote:
Or maybe they could try a few clever searches before posting.

With our search engine, one would have to be on the extreme end of the IQ scale.

Not really, they would just have to have a bit of spare time on their hands, and be willing to do a bit of brute force searching.

They could also use this.
(self promotion ftw)

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I find it odd that no one has started discussing which 3 are in TCB.

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Heh, I just thought it was kind of obvious. Anyway, here ya go.

Jason wrote:
• No more queens. I myself posted one and feel the shame. Arn't roach queens enough?

Chances are that there is a some new kind of mother, although it may be nothing like a roach queen.

• No pushable items. Don't be the person to post the next 'pushable' topic.

Wubbas, Halph anyone?

• Nothing that goes against the 'Guy with big sword kills stuff' rule, eg. weapon changing, weapon disappearing, extra weapons, you get the picture. Sounds cool, but, .

I'm pretty sure that you can 'drop' your sword in TCB. But I doubt that there are other weapons that Beethro can yield in TCB

• Nothing that can be picked up and able to be used in more than the room it was in. Each DROD room is separate.

Considering that you could create an RPG from the DROD:3.0 editor, and the fact that you can have a branching storyline, I'd say that this is not true. Puzzle wise, however...

• No ray guns* or anything that could entice someone to mention them.

*Set aside an hour to laugh about all the things people have posted in that thread!

Caravel may well chose to have a raygun reference in TCB

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I tried it many times, and I assure you Wubbas are not pushable.

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I just feel like to add: 'nothing that breaks backwards compability'

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A recent one reminds me: Moving twice for every monster move, after drinking a potion.

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Maurog wrote:
I tried it many times, and I assure you Wubbas are not pushable.

they are, however, pullable.

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I think that's as close as we're going to get, folks. Unless you count moving close to a goblin (with your sword facing the goblin) 'pushing it'.

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Someone Else wrote:
I think that's as close as we're going to get, folks. Unless you count moving close to a goblin (with your sword facing the goblin) 'pushing it'.

Well there was that room in JtRH...

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NiroZ wrote:

Someone Else wrote:
I think that's as close as we're going to get, folks. Unless you count moving close to a goblin (with your sword facing the goblin) 'pushing it'.

Well there was that room in JtRH...

Wow. Stop it. That's pushing it.

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NiroZ wrote:

Maurog wrote:
I tried it many times, and I assure you Wubbas are not pushable.

they are, however, pullable.

Yes, but they can't be CC'd, and tanking them is a nightmare.

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Randomness is one thing not mentioned here yet. Don't suggest things that have any sort of random behavior.

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I can't understand why, but every time I see Maurog's posts (excepting Development board) I always want to cry, laugh, and hit my desk hard (with my head of course)... I enjoy them ^^.

Maybe lotofthingness?
It is getting a bit offtopic though, like everything (Excepting UU, TCB features, Hints, and Anything board).

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Jason wrote:
I've made a list of requests that have been posted many times. Please don't post them again! I will be adding things as I find them, but here is a few I have already found.


• No pushable items. Don't be the person to post the next 'pushable' topic.

•No lights, lasers, or mirrors.

because we know none of these would ever get put into tcb

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I keep noticing, quite a few of the suggestions mentioned on this board are eerily similair to the ones that has actualy made it to the finished game! how about that folks!

We should make a list of possible inspirations or equivilents.

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Actually, there were very few cases of direct influence from this board - hot tiles are the only example I can think of - in many, many cases, things were working in 3.0 for months before someone essentially suggested the same feature here. It's been somewhat frustrating, actually, to see that happen.

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A list of eerily correct guesses then.

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What Eytan said. Almost every single element in TCB was already in by the summer of 2005...so several things that were "guessed" afterwards and people didn't like...well, we had to keep going and hoped that once people saw them in action they'd change their minds.

Game on,

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Since when did we know what was best for us.

Hopefully that'll teach us to stop raygunning feature requests.

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You mean ...

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Actually, Sillyman, those guys take the place of Zombies. I think it's still on this board, but I definitely remember such a FR. Maybe it was on SourceForge.

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zex20913 wrote:
Actually, Sillyman, those guys take the place of Zombies. I think it's still on this board, but I definitely remember such a FR. Maybe it was on SourceForge.

I remember getting an assertion error somewhere in "Zombie.cpp".

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You should un-cross out randomness in the top post.