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Aivars

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Now, I've got a few additional wishes for BA.. .

Change the statue where you toggle points-xp - make the option easier to understand. I believe it's currently Toggle (XP) ... well, is XP what you are at or what you toggle to? Why not just call it "Toggle to XP" - that would be easier.

I was forced to play with EoC and put the calls into my action bar. When I dragged the egg colours there I expected it'd work for other roles too. When I switched to another role though, they didn't. Why can't it update to your current role, kind of like the old Style 1,2,3 - except the abilities change their icons and names?

And lastly ... update the stupid Tutorial!
It's still the same horrible one I didn't understand when I first played BA eight years or so ago.
At least it was some months ago when I tried to find out if there was something new in there for Hard Mode.

Which would be yet another point I guess, make a new tutorial for Hard Mode.

Ideally I'd like a tutorial where the player actually has to do stuff, instead of just reading about it - which people never do anyway, they just hold the space bar down after the first chapter or so to get through that stupid dialogue.

No doubt I'll think of a few additions at some point. As you probably can tell, I love BA.

Great Orb Project
I haven't played this in ages, because there were always people abusing a bug, which meant there usually were 7 players in one team and 2 or so in the other. And the glitchers always made fun of the small team which of course usually lost.
I'm not sure if that bug still exists, since it was so frustrating trying to be a honest player that I stopped playing it at all. If it does though, a definite point would be fixing it.

Dungeoneering
We all know this is a minigame disguised as a skill after all.
I'd really love a seperate progress bar for Hard Mode there. Or at least know which one I've already done, since you need to do all for the 'of Daemonheim' Title.

13-Jan-2016 18:39:00 - Last edited on 15-Jan-2016 14:05:52 by Aivars

Aivars

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I just had another idea, because I noticed I probably missed the last spotlight on BA.

How about having a Game Message that informs a player if one of the minigames that are marked as Favourites in the minigame-interface are spotlighted?
A coloured line every time you log on during the spotlight to make sure you don't miss it.

Possibly with the option to toggle it off or on, although not making it a favourite would be toggling off too.

13-Jan-2016 19:39:00

Sep

2010

Lord Drakan

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Thanks for the input. I'll update the BA entry (I love BA too :3), though I cannae add a tutorial update because that would probably be too much work for the Ninja Team. And as much as Dungeoneering is a minigame, it isn't a minigame officially.

Also added some stuff to Trouble Brewing.

The TGOP bug appears to be absent. Bizarre Boron Fusswell, scryer extraordinaire. OSRS: POH ideas & RS3 minigames & achievement ideas !

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15-Jan-2016 09:24:44 - Last edited on 15-Jan-2016 09:29:15 by Lord Drakan

Aivars

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Since you just pointed to my post I read through it again and noticed that when writing it I messed up sentences - I changed the phrasing a few times because the original text was far too long. As such I've changed the paragraph from the orginal
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I was forced to play with EoC and put the calls into my action bar. When I dragged the egg colours there. Then I switched to another role, and the buttons didn't work again. Why can't it update to your current role, kind of like the old Style 1,2,3 - except the abilities change their name?
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hopefully better version

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I was forced to play with EoC and put the calls into my action bar. When I dragged the egg colours there I expected it'd work for other roles too. When I switched to another role though, they didn't. Why can't it update to your current role, kind of like the old Style 1,2,3 - except the abilities change their icons and names? I hope you don't mind that change, it isn't a huge one after all.

As for the Tutorial, yes probably too large for the Ninjas.

And ... good news about the TGOP, I might actually give it another try some time then. I did that from time to time, and it was bugged like that for years.

Yes, Dung isn't an official minigame. I just couldn't resist mentioning it anyway.

15-Jan-2016 13:57:49 - Last edited on 15-Jan-2016 14:45:01 by Aivars

Aivars

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Back to BA though, I have a

suggestion for Legacy Attackers

.
Better alternative to my BA-comments post on page 14:

Just make it a seperate interface, in the style of Livid Farm, Serenity Posts, PoP Ship list:
Replace the Music-tab with a Minigame tab and put the style icons there.

Possibly but not necessarily even the call-options too, to give the Legacy people the ability to call without using the mouse, just like EoC players have.

1,2,3 for the calls and 4,5,6 for the attacking styles.*
Calls first, because they would be available in all roles, not just attacker.

This method could be used for other roles too now that I think about it ... dropping food for the def at the very least. Possibly even switching the left-click option on healers to what you just chose, and not having it standard Tofu.
But of course the Attacker styles would be a huge priority.

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Ah yes, another thing. Fix this stupid glitch for Collectors. Egg piles often showing a different colour than the egg which is on top actually is. You really have to rightclick every egg to find out if the colour you see is really true? This hasn't been fixed in years, and killed many collectors since.

Now, the last item (for now)....
It keeps annoying me - and always has - that roles other than Attacker have the Attack option on Rangers and Fighters. I literally cannot even estimate the amount of times I saw the message that I can't attack them instead of walking to some spot like I wanted to.
This is annoying for all roles, but especially collector. And defender if there is a pile of them near the trap.

... and now I feel like playing a round of BA.

*I am sure I saw some menu of that kind where you even could toggle off the keybinds, but don't remember what it was. It's not one of the three I mentioned (I even checked).

15-Jan-2016 15:23:01 - Last edited on 15-Jan-2016 15:28:08 by Aivars

Sep

2010

Lord Drakan

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I'd replace the Emotes tab instead of Music. I personally sometimes fiddle with my music player during a wave, but you can't use emotes anyway.

As for eggs, I dunno, glitch-coloured eggs at least signify that there is a pile rather than a single egg. But having the "correct" colour on top would probably be more useful. Bizarre Boron Fusswell, scryer extraordinaire. OSRS: POH ideas & RS3 minigames & achievement ideas !

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15-Jan-2016 17:16:12

Aivars

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sure, Emotes then - I just said Music because that's what is replaced in the other minigames.

It used to be correct, I believe that glitch first appeared when they added the ability to get XP instead of just points (and lowered the high-gamble from costing 500+queenkill to 30 points).

I seem to remember a few weeks in which it was fixed since then, but that may be just having been luck on my part (and not liking the Coll role much, so trying to avoid it).

The fact that there is a pile of eggs is visible anyway, since other colours are shown for a few pixels around the main colour. It would be nice if the leftclick option would be correct though.

15-Jan-2016 17:50:15