Explaining Footfall post Release 211

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Footfall balance has been changed in the recent update.

@Arkhainn GOTO 10.

(That’s a BASIC joke.)

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My Parents bought me a C64 and a ton of games when I was a kid. The games never got played but the manual taught me BASIC. Programming that thing was all I wanted to do. I was only 10 years old. I wasn’t a normal child! :rofl:

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I remember programing a poker game in BASIC when I had a 286 computer.
What a terrible language. :stuck_out_tongue:

… tho less annoying than fortran.

That sounds perfectly normal to me. :stuck_out_tongue:

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Thanks for the update.

Also if anyone’s feeling nostalgic you can still program TI BASIC in some of their calculators.

SO EXCITING to bounce a pixel around heh.

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Same here, though without the games…think they wanted me to spend my time learning, which I did, sort of (mostly from typing in games from the backs of computer mags :slight_smile: ).

see what you did , james. getting all us oldies nostalgic…

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Learned to program on my Atari 600XL, Atari BASIC… Ahh, good times…

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Same here. I learnt to program on a zx81, which I built with my dad at the age of 9 or 10. Then c16, vic20, c64, amiga500 and so on.
I too learnt to program by entering code from magazines, and deconstructing it to figure out how it all worked.
It’s all I wanted to do and my parents didn’t have a clue what I was up to.

Happy days.

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For me real programming came into play when I got into the MUD scene and started learning C/C++ by way of Altavista (I think this was mostly before google became a thing). But that was still pretty recently by c64 standards. :stuck_out_tongue:

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I remember doing this with the Commodore 64!

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I remember entering codes like peek and poke, followed by numbers, which changed the screen colour settings. Or when you could hack a game, adjust a few numbers in the machine code to get unlimited lives etc.

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Me too. I got a programming for dummies book and made text base dungeon crawlers on my C64

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All I have to say is:

10 PRINT CHR$ (205.5 + RND (1)); : GOTO 10

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Pokes were funny… I made a fake loader for a game a friend wanted… count down and everything… looked totally like it was a premium speccy game booting up :wink: trollllllll

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Footfall has suddenly dropped again for me over the last two days. It was almost getting back to the level it was pre-patch and now it’s back down to about 50% again.

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Today my test char has primary guild G1, no permissions. And is a member of G2, no permissions. The test char walks onto a beacon aligned to G2. Again, no footfall is generated.

Guilds are completely useless because they prevent footfall.

Lets assume you run a mall and assign the main beacon to a guild. Now, many people who have a shop in that mall are a member of that guild. You most like will get puny footfall. @majorvex, did you try to not align the streets in the gyosha mall to a guild?

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did you test what happens when they first enter a non-guild beacon, before stepping into the guild-aligned ones?

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  • Created new character X
  • X Joined guild Test, no permissions
  • X walks onto beacon BY1 of char Y, beacon is not aligned with any guild. X has no permission on BY1.
  • X walks onto beacon BY2 of char Y, beacon is aligned with guild Test.
  • BY1 and BY2 both had 0 footfall.
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That sounds super weird. Can any devs confirm that this is intended behavior? @james ?

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I am assuming both beacons have greater than 10k prestige? and the character checking is the owner of the beacon, not an alt with permissions?

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Yes, and both are in the same settlement.

Yes.