Elemental Mod for MM7 -- v3.1 holiday release!

[Tomsod]

Status report: I'm 95% sure to release something by New Year, but it'll most likely be an open beta kind of thing. Just as well, it'll probably have more bugs than I can squash alone!

For now, I just finished adding the Black Market to Steadwick sewers, where you can buy and sell stolen items:

House animation is from the (unimplemented) Nighon bank. I don't like the glowing eyes, but otherwise it's close enough.

The plan is to also have it replace the Judge's "I lost it" feature, but this would require tracking quest items more thoroughly, otherwise the market ends up crammed with every trinket currently in your castle's chest. If I do implement that, it will organically fix the book of Divine Intervention exploit (which can be duplicated and sold in vanilla), since you'd have to pay money to get it back from the market, eliminating any potential profit. Hopefully I'll get around to this.

[Lone_Wolf]

I've looked at the changelog and read many interesting ideas.

I don't like easy games and doubled monster hp in vanilla to reduce the number of oneshot kills.

Will 4 be harder / have a higher difficulty option then 3.x ?

[Tomsod]

Yeah, everyone asks me to make Hard difficulty harder! I'll try, there's already some stuff done for 4.0, e.g. last month I added a bunch of new monster spells that only appear on higher difficulties. But it seems that the more tricky features, like better AI, will have to wait for later releases because I'm nearly out of time.

[Lone_Wolf]

Understood, I'm watching the github repo.

I can at the very least spare some time to check if rangers are treated differently then other classes in 4.x .
Would a VCS/release package for archlinux following arch wine package guidelines be useful for you ?

[Tomsod]

I've rewritten the monster-chooses-target function from scratch, so even if there's a bug in vanilla that causes everything to have a preference for rangers or something, my mod shouldn't inherit it.

While I do happen to use arch btw, my MM7 is just locally installed in ~/.wine -- actually there are like ten copies of the install for various mods and versions of the game and other testing purposes. You can put your thing on AUR, maybe someone is interested, I dunno.