Zero Summer Discussion Thread

I have 1 Gilead Balm under Consumables, and my reputation dropped the requisite 75 points.

Ah ha! Caught the bug. It should work correctly now. Thanks for helping us figure it out!

Thank you very much, it worked perfectly.

How do you get the Pony Express badge?

Wups – forgot I disabled that. It should issue itself to you now. :)

Thank you, the card auto-popped when I reloaded, I will just have to wait ten minutes for another action.

I’m having some issues with the equipment system, specifically the talismans. I have 3 (Gunslinger,Doc and Pony Express badge) but of them only the gunslinger one is equipable for me.

I have the Pony Express Badge in my inventory now, and as Doomlewa noted, it does not appear to be equippable. When I mouse over it it says Talisman Equipped +2, but it’s not actually in the Talisman section…

Several things have been switched around to fix the problems Kat and DoomIewa are experiencing.

Well, that sucks.

Started playing, thought I was in the post area, clicked on the third pinned card to finish my job, then on the ok button without really paying attention. Turns out I was in my guest room, and have deleted my character. Arse.

Spiralx:

Ouch! That is lousy beyond lousy. Please shoot me an email at zerosummer@outlook.com and I’ll see if I can’t do anything to help.

In the meantime I’ll be creating a double redundancy for character deletion. Thanks for making this expensive catch – and I’m sorry about your character.

Cheers for the response, rueful email sent :)

I’ve been looking all over for Very Old Johnson to continue Hallowed Ground (my Hallowed Ground is 26, and my mainstats are G26, D21, C26). Where on earth is he?!

EDIT: Also, just found a major bug. You know that card for Cutting your Spurs that says ‘the next card is found in the opportunity deck’? Well, once you’re past the Your Own Shadow bit, it doesn’t go away— and, if you play that card again your Cutting Your Spurs progress will be reset to the beginning of the Your Own Shadow business. Would it be possible to get my Cutting Your Spurs reset to 29, like it was at the start of today? :-/
(NB: I still have my Pickpocket, Wheelperson, and Muscle.)
edited by ladymadsci on 1/5/2013

As per the patch notes: “Please note that the last third of Hallowed Ground hasn’t been released yet. Expect it in the next day or two.” But don’t worry! It should be up this afternoon. Hang tight. :)

Oof! What an ugly bug. I’ve fixed it on our end and reset your Cutting Your Spurs to its correct amount. Thanks for letting us know! Sorry about the trouble!

I appear to be unable to post for some reason. This is troublesome.

Edit: WHAT
Okay, so apparently the server throws a fit if I try to copy/paste things. Right then, let’s see if I can transplant my original post some other way…


By the way, those typos: They’re in the failure result of the “Hostile Negotionations” branch of the Cityslocker grind card. the Irate Trappers annoyance turns to you and it isn’t long before Needs an apostropher after “Trappers”, and I believe a comma after “you”.

Also, “An Unseeing Witness” branch: and within moment a crowd You also abruptly change from present tense to past in the last paragraph.

Raising my Doc is becoming troublesome. The only way to raise it is through cards, but that’s a crapshoot since I’m just as likely to get the Harvestmen card. It’s making progressing through the Harvestmen storyline rather slow.

Whee, I got taken to Roslyn’s clinic! A new menace area to explore, hooray.
-“Physical Therapy” card has a typo: old and inform joints
-“A Little Light Napping” card:
–Broken italics tag.
The note reads: “take a load off and snooze for awhile.” If that quotation is the full sentence, shouldn’t the T in “take” be capitalized?

After, she hands you a lollipop – an old rootbeer-flavored Dum Dum from it looks like the 1960s. “For being a good boy,” Doc Roslyn says. “And for not passing out.” This is hilarious.

And I got out with my last action! Perfect timing!

By the way, is there any reliable way to grind currency (dollars and revolver bullets)? Seems to me like they can only be gotten from rare successes so far.

Edit 2: “A Mysterious Figure” card: You can feel it on the back of your next The branch text is also repeated.

Edit 3:
-“A Hand on Your Shoulder” card: the Roughriders headquarters Needs an apostrophe.
-“Greasing Palms” card: he just might get understand what you’re getting at
edited by Little The on 1/5/2013

Why is raising your Doc more troublesome than other Styles?

Re: Dollars and Revolver Bullets, the most ‘reliable’ way to get them is to trade Reputation for them at the Wall Market. Rare successes have a better exchange rate, although of course you need to play grind cards to get them.

Hm. Perhaps it’s just because I need it for Harvestmen, so I’m focused on it. I also have the Comanche Charm to offset the Gunslinger damage, but no such buffer for Doc.

You mean it’s possible to straight-up buy them with Reputation? The only options I seem to be able to get are trades (dollars for bullets or vice versa).

It’s absolutely possible to buy Dollars and Bullets with Reputation. That is: it would be possible if we hadn’t dropped that ball like a rock.

It’s on our design white board. I’m not sure how we missed it. The buy-currency-with-Reputation options will be in by tomorrow evening. Sorry about that.
edited by levineg85 on 1/6/2013

“A Ring of Truth” card: “Now there is space,” she says, to talk and be heard." Missing a quotation mark.
-“Do You See?” result: “Do you see” she cries Missing punctuation.

The cards at the free clinic don’t have the “this will reduce x and y” notifications like in other menace areas.

Rare success “Peace” on Gunslinger grind: Slips bullet in Shouldn’t there be an “a” in there?

We’ve been waffling on whether to include helper text in the Menace states. So I left them in the Gaol and cut them from the Clinic. Thoughts?

I prefer them. It’s important to have transparency and user-friendliness in what the player should expect, especially when actions have drawbacks like in menace states.