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General Discussion / Re: programming language?

« on: February 06, 2020, 11:12:37 PM »

Hello, and thanks for your question!

The UnReal World is written in C and C++
I'm afraid that switching to another language would mean practically re-writing all of the code by hand, which would be an enormously time-consuming task. Also, we have been rather happy with C and C++ so there hardly is any reason to consider other languages.

Hmm reading news.txt (or oldnews.txt) I thought it was 100% C. Any rough ratio on C vs C++?
I am also interested to know which parts are C++ if you don't mind.

Finally, I am curious whether there are any long term (another 30 years+) plans to ensure continuity as after 30 years this project is more or less heritage-class artefact. Long live the devs BTW. You indeed did create a masterpiece.

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Gameplay questions / Re: Do traps only work if you are in the area?

« on: January 23, 2020, 09:52:16 AM »

Hopefully Sami will post to enlighten us.

However from programming perspective I would be surprised if all tiles in the world always get computed (whether a trap has a hit) as that would be unnecessarily too cpu intensive.

What would make more sense is vicinity gets simulated/computed only. And based on that assumption, a regularly moving trapper has much higher chance of getting a hit on one of their traps.
If you create many traps (1 per tile) and keep checking in a rota you should increase your chances.

It is in my TODO list to check my theory but I use minimal traps and never got to test it so far, it is only a speculative theory so far.

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Gameplay questions / Re: How long in game?

« on: January 23, 2020, 09:33:38 AM »

Is there a way to determine how long a character has been in the game?

Not on the PC at the moment to check before I post but I think:
1. All characters enter the game world at the age of 18.
2. I also think death screen shows at what age your character died.
Based on that you can simply back up your CHARACTERNAME directory a.k.a. Save game) then kill yourself by pressing Q and choosing not save the game anymore. That way game should show you how long you survived.

Then simply copy and paste (or move) the directory back in.

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Guides and tutorials / Re: quality of life

« on: November 05, 2019, 09:49:43 AM »

...I do the same for tanning stuff, drop everything except hides, press 'g' to get my knife (and some fat) from the pile at my feet, and I am ready to go with 0 penalties...

Excellent advice! Thanks for sharing this, I wish I discovered that feature in-game 300 hours earlier 

I noticed that while it's mandatory to pick up the skin, it's not for knives. Any knives on PlayerCharacter tile or one its neighbouring tiles will be picked up automatically.

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Development News / Re: 3.60 (stable) released on Steam, with Halloween sale & Kekri celebration

« on: October 28, 2019, 11:18:07 PM »

Thank you for all your hard work!