Devs, PLEASE do us a favor...

from Demigod Forums

Either disable favor items for the time being, or make all of them available to all people at all times.  I mean, how many lines of code could either of these take?

I'm not asking you to fix favor items the "right way" for the time being.  I'm just asking for a quick work around.  Either of the ones I suggested would be fair to everyone, and I'm guessing would be relatively easy to code up.

Thanks.

demigod
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Reply #1 from Demigod Forums Top

If it is so easy, why do you not do it and post it here for everyone to +karma you? :O

 

How much coding in your life have you done?

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Reply #4 from Demigod Forums Top

I agree, just unlock all Favor items temporarily for everyone in every game, until they fix the bugs causing Favor issue.  This should have been done in Day 0.  It makes no sense why it still hasn't been done over 2 weeks after the game shipped.

Reply #5 from Demigod Forums Top

My favor works great in Pantheon.  None is custom.  I just have to rebuy the items every game but it works.

Reply #6 from Demigod Forums Top

the patch that is coming monday is supposed to also fix that. So no need to (un)lock them all. If there are still problems after that, it would be a pretty good idea.

Reply #7 from Demigod Forums Top

Quoting eX^, reply 1
If it is so easy, why do you not do it and post it here for everyone to +karma you?

 

How much coding in your life have you done?

 

Favor.P = False

was it so hard?  :rofl:

Reply #8 from Demigod Forums Top

Quoting Fred_Bonaparte, reply 6
the patch that is coming monday is supposed to also fix that. So no need to (un)lock them all. If there are still problems after that, it would be a pretty good idea.

No, the patch coming out Monday is not going to fix that unless they add new Favor-fixing code to it that is not in the beta version; which they have given no indication that they are going to do. 

They have already released that patch as a beta version, and it does nothing whatsoever to fix the Favor problems.  All indications so far seem to be that they are simply going to make that patch official and possibly add some more things about connections to it, but not add anything to fix the Favor to it.:|    Hence, Favor will remain as broken as ever come Monday's non-Favor-fixing patch.

Reply #9 from Demigod Forums Top

Quoting fixmyfavor, reply 8

Quoting Fred_Bonaparte, reply 6the patch that is coming monday is supposed to also fix that. So no need to (un)lock them all. If there are still problems after that, it would be a pretty good idea.

No, the patch coming out Monday is not going to fix that unless they add new Favor-fixing code to it that is not in the beta version; which they have given no indication that they are going to do. 

They have already released that patch as a beta version, and it does nothing whatsoever to fix the Favor problems.  All indications so far seem to be that they are simply going to make that patch official and possibly add some more things about connections to it, but not add anything to fix the Favor to it.    Hence, Favor will remain as broken as ever come Monday's non-Favor-fixing patch.

Frogboy said in a recent post that they are working on an online database that will store fav points to solve that problem. After more reflexion i am not sure if he said it was coming with the next patch or not. Anyway i doubt we will have to wait a lot more.

And i really doubt it would be easy to just remove the favor system, and anyway, it is better to just spend all the dev time solving the problem, instead of just erasing fav points and probably causing major bugs in the process.

 

Reply #10 from Demigod Forums Top

seriously op, stop trolling forums

 

either your threads are stupid, repeates that are weeks late, or you really are trolling

 

stop

Reply #11 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting woca, reply 10
seriously op, stop trolling forums

 

either your threads are stupid, repeates that are weeks late, or you really are trolling

 

stop

I'm the anti-anti-troll.  Here to tell you to stop anti-trolling. By anti-trolling you are nothing more than a troll yourself.  If you don't have something constructive to add just let the thread die a natural death.

Reply #12 from Demigod Forums Top

If it is so easy, why do you not do it and post it here for everyone to +karma you?



How much coding in your life have you done?

 

It should be absolutely trivial to change the favor points required to buy favor items to 0 for every one of them.  That makes them available to everybody.  Or you can trivially remove them by setting their value to 1000000 favor points.

There is no way that his suggestion should be a difficult thing for the devs to do.

Reply #13 from Demigod Forums Top

anti-anti-troll = troll    2 negatives cancel each other out  so u admited ur a troll

 

Reply #14 from Demigod Forums Top

meh, its a good suggestion. until Favor is fixed it should be disabled. not really fair to make someone play a ranked game against someone who can use a favor item if they can't also use a favor item. 

Reply #15 from Demigod Forums Top

Quoting Demigod3k, reply 7
[quote who="eX^" reply="1" id="2181762"]If it is so easy, why do you not do it and post it here for everyone to +karma you?

 

How much coding in your life have you done?


 

Favor.P = False

was it so hard?  [/quote]

 

 

lol, do you have any idea what you are talking about?

Reply #16 from Demigod Forums Top

Quoting transitive, reply 14
meh, its a good suggestion. until Favor is fixed it should be disabled. not really fair to make someone play a ranked game against someone who can use a favor item if they can't also use a favor item. 

i faught a favor item user he ran so fucking fast  we killed him whenever we could  he kepted dieing and we won it was a 2v2

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Reply #17 from Demigod Forums Top

How much coding in your life have you done?

More than you, and more than anyone you know.  I was coding on mainframes at the university when I was still in Jr. High School.

If it is so easy, why do you not do it and post it here for everyone to +karma you?

What language do you want (I've programmed in dozens)?  Making the assumption that favor points are stored in a variable, all that is needed is a single line inserted into the code setting this variable just as gameplay starts.

In C or C++:
favor = 9999;

In Smalltalk:
favor := 9999.

In Prolog (one of many ways to do it):
favor(9999).

In APL:
favor ← 9999

In J:
favor =: 9999

Reply #18 from Demigod Forums Top

he is right  but i find programming is boring

Reply #19 from Demigod Forums Top

Matlab:

favor = 9999;

 

 This is easy for ALL programming language IMO. Just a one, single code like this and AofK mentioned above.

Reply #21 from Demigod Forums Top

AofK  soulds funny

Reply #22 from Demigod Forums Top

All the favor items should be available to everyone from the start of the match anyways.  If you do that and balance them a little, they add the same kind of depth as doctrine choice in Company of Heroes.  If you don't do that, they'll be disabled in competitive play and just be noob toys in pantheon and such.  Taking a potentially good gameplay mechanic and making it a persistent reward in a game like this just wastes the mechanic.  At the very least we need a host option for making all favor items available.