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whatnitrus said:
Nkw thats a fucking chore if I ever heard one. Nope. Uh Uh
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Once you're used to it, it's easy enough. I just leave the tab open. I also have Hitsquad idling. It's easy when you do it routinely. As I said last time I explained it though, laziness is definitely an option. Are the daily quests worth it compared to other sources of ARP? No.
 
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ausf said:
Once you're used to it, it's easy enough. I just leave the tab open. I also have Hitsquad idling. It's easy when you do it routinely. As I said last time I explained it though, laziness is definitely an option. Are the daily quests worth it compared to other sources of ARP? No.
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And as I explained about how they could detect bots by human actions being random...I have found the exception to the rule. Everybody meet Ausf AI, the future of dell technologies :LOL:
 
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I've never even tried to get a vault game on launch. I have always waited until the discount so far. The reason I decided to take AWA seriously and level up was all the tier restricted GAs. So the bot thing has never affected me. I do know what it's like when something is popular and the internet stops working though. I'd only bother if it was a must have game to me. Then I'd try my luck. Then not get it and pirate.
 
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fingolfin said:
"DREDGE is a single-player fishing adventure with a sinister undercurrent. Sell your catch, upgrade your boat, and dredge the depths for long-buried secrets. Explore a mysterious archipelago and discover why some things are best left forgotten."

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Cheap Dredge for the not-so-picky :)
store.steampowered.com

The Bogtavern on Steam

Escape the shady brackwater swamp together with the Professor and the Captn in a small Cutter, in a short, text-heavy, linear Horror-Adventure (without Jumpscares).
store.steampowered.com store.steampowered.com
 
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vic-viper said:
Cheap Dredge for the not-so-picky :)
store.steampowered.com

The Bogtavern on Steam

Escape the shady brackwater swamp together with the Professor and the Captn in a small Cutter, in a short, text-heavy, linear Horror-Adventure (without Jumpscares).
store.steampowered.com store.steampowered.com
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Maybe so, but there's nothing else there for me this month anyway. And even then! I'm sure the chance to get it will be tiny because everyone will probably rush for it right away...
 
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fingolfin said:
Maybe so, but there's nothing else there for me this month anyway. And even then! I'm sure the chance to get it will be tiny because everyone will probably rush for it right away...
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Yeah, AWA looks extremely disappointing.
Anyway, this game looks weird and a bit forgotten, but it used to be very rarely winnable on Lootboy (back when I used it).
It's a shame the developer listened to my comments and decided to update it, wrote the progress of the changes on the game forum, and then said he lost the game code and wouldn't go back to it :)
 
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vic-viper said:
lost the game code
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Its a shame he was ever a programmer :LOL:
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wouldn't go back to it
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Twice over.

I've had a program I was making erase my entire hard drive by missing a single "." in a directory search function so it went backwards from the directory it was meant to erase like DOS would, including the actual program (while it was running in visual studio!!! lmao) and I still put foot to ass and started all over once I got my PC running again.
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shame the developer
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But it does suck 😓

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I took 'lost' in a literal sense, I suppose life happens an it could have been a fire or something extreme that made them lose the code.

My honest opinion (from experience doing it) is that they didnt want to read their own code backwards after a long time not touching it and that was likely an excuse....but who knows.

Its extremely hard to read even your own code after years...because your style changes and your skills improve or get rusty, new languages, etc. etc.

I'll be buried or burned with my code lmao...better than getting my idea's stolen from the grave by someone.
 
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Or just trying to understand why the hell you did what you did...:ROFLMAO:
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I've done that too...alot of my early visual basic programs still make me cringe, but they all worked flawlessly...hell, almost all of them STILL work even from the 16-bit era as long as they didnt use the x86 instruction set (TC++ there though), I've actually modified some ancient ones to handle larger chunks of data since they were made when MBs were more than enough and not GBs or used old servers that just don't exist, etc. etc.

I upgraded an old mail bomber to work with gmail instead of an old mail server that was built into windows back in those days and a download manager from like internet explorer 7 to work with modern file sizes...but the mail bomber waited for answers from the server using strings when there were numeric constants defined I didnt even know existed (luckily because the numeric constants actually changed values and the strings were the same lol), the download manager just had terrible coding that I picked up thinking I was Ieeto at some point, but it still made me want to slap myself :LOL:

I made an encryption based text editor though :whistle: and I still can't break the encryption 25yrs later...I need to bypass forgotten passwords using the actual program instead.

I encrypted half the code that does the encryption with another encryption inside the program code...and for the life of me I don't know what kind of mad genius moment I had, because I can't recall how I actually made that work in the slightest, its totally mind blowing and i'm the one who did it :ROFLMAO:
 
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whatnitrus said:
I took 'lost' in a literal sense, I suppose life happens an it could have been a fire or something extreme that made them lose the code.
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Since the videos do not exist anymore a short heads-up why there aren't any updates anymore:

I was planning a larger update in Summer 2023. There were a few things already implemented, but due to personal reasons I totally mismanaged the big, rather unimportant updates. If I had done those, then it would have been a totally different game, and I would still be busy working on those updates - at least if I hadn't given up yet.

Furthermore Unity was running a PR Stunt in Autumn 2023. I was only using the engine since 2018 but witnessed enough questionable decisions of management to be confident enough to switch engines. That's not really an excuse, but what I am saying is that I started learning something new.

Summarised: the project files are in a desolate state. I am afraid it sounds selfish, but attempting to fix that mess would take a lot of time and energy, which I do not have right now.

Hence I advise to only buy this game on a refund if you truly do not want to regret it!

Back then my goal was to make a game in 6 months to learn how to release on Steam and prove to myself that I can actually do it. This is why it got a shovelware price-tag.

I am afraid that The Bogtavern is abandoned. I am not proud of it, but I am afraid I did an unfinished job like Prof. Dr. G. E. Blehs here.


P.S.: in case you are interested in looking at the unfinished-never-going-to-happen-updates I can throw you a code for the beta.
 
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vic-viper said:
Since the videos do not exist anymore a short heads-up why there aren't any updates anymore:

I was planning a larger update in Summer 2023. There were a few things already implemented, but due to personal reasons I totally mismanaged the big, rather unimportant updates. If I had done those, then it would have been a totally different game, and I would still be busy working on those updates - at least if I hadn't given up yet.

Furthermore Unity was running a PR Stunt in Autumn 2023. I was only using the engine since 2018 but witnessed enough questionable decisions of management to be confident enough to switch engines. That's not really an excuse, but what I am saying is that I started learning something new.

Summarised: the project files are in a desolate state. I am afraid it sounds selfish, but attempting to fix that mess would take a lot of time and energy, which I do not have right now.

Hence I advise to only buy this game on a refund if you truly do not want to regret it!

Back then my goal was to make a game in 6 months to learn how to release on Steam and prove to myself that I can actually do it. This is why it got a shovelware price-tag.

I am afraid that The Bogtavern is abandoned. I am not proud of it, but I am afraid I did an unfinished job like Prof. Dr. G. E. Blehs here.


P.S.: in case you are interested in looking at the unfinished-never-going-to-happen-updates I can throw you a code for the beta.
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Ok, I can respect that, better than most devs usually do....and I agree with unitys garbage at that time...or at most times usually :LOL: that engine is a roller coaster for poor devs.
 
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I log in and find SIXTY pages since last visit.
Time for IG to implement a daily post limit for some people here...

i've said all i wanted to say about awa. crappy vault but who cares? bring back all the lost titles including that copy of metaphor they "owe" me, considering the site went down and it's gone when it works. being early doesn't even matter.

Yes, i think they will allow multi buying given how cheap and numerous the vault. they can't dump some of these keys.

PS - missed it but nice hosting those ga's to retro and nitrous
 
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