Fighting is funny - it's beneficial to keep all old weapons with you, then you can attack with 2 swords, shoot rifle and laser and use bayonet before the first sword timout finishes. Very addictive game.
How did you get a bayonet? I never found one.
A Dark Room - minimalist text-based game
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#182Dammit I've been playing this for 2 hours straight...
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#183How do you avoid the beasts that keep killing your guests?
villagers are one of the cheaper resources in that game :)
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#184Fighting is funny - it's beneficial to keep all old weapons with you, then you can attack with 2 swords, shoot rifle and laser and use bayonet before the first sword timout finishes. Very addictive game.
How did you get a bayonet? I never found one.
A veteran had it I think, it was on a battlefield 1/4 of the screen to the right from the village, IIRC.
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#185Very good game! I refrained from cheating for a few hours but got bored waiting for furs n things. Poked around JS for unlimited ammo and just completed the game minutes ago. Glad I cheated because otherwise I know I'd be playing it for days on end.
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#186Any idea what 'charm' does? I haven't found a use for it yet.
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#187Any idea what 'charm' does? I haven't found a use for it yet.
I think I used it once: I wanted to talk to a man on a swamp and I needed one charm to talk to him.
Be careful about them, since they seem to be finite in supply. Though I don't losing all of them and not being able to talk to that man would make any discernable difference in the long run.
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#188Any idea what 'charm' does? I haven't found a use for it yet.
I think I used it once: I wanted to talk to a man on a swamp and I needed one charm to talk to him. Be careful about them, since they seem to be finite in supply. Though I don't losing all of them and not being able to talk to that man would make any discernable difference in the long run.
Yeah, as far as I could tell, you only used them to talk to the old man in the swamp - you'll find them periodically in your traps, though - I had 8 or 10 by the time I finished the game, so don't worry too much about losing them.
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#189Seems to use the psychological technique of intermittent rewards to encourage continued clicking of "stoke the fire." Unfortunately after about 4 stokings with no new developments in the game, I got bored and quit.
As opposed to the psychological technique of continuous rewards, or never rewarding something (both of which are also boring)?
Intermittent rewards actually work best to encourage a conditioned behavior.
http://www.indiana.edu/~p1013447/dictionary/sked.htm
Edit: I got bored quickly anyway, probably because I just don't find computer games to be a satisfying way to spend time. Never have.
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#190Earlier quoted context omitted.
$('#roomPanel').width(350); See inside and outside at the same time
Here's a way to check traps, gather wood, and stoke the fire separately: var stoke = function(){if(!$('#stokeButton').hasClass('disabled')){$('#stokeButton').trigger('click')}} var check = function(){if(!$("#trapsButton").hasClass('disabled')){$("#trapsButton").trigger('click')}} var gather = function(){if(!$("#gatherButton").hasClass('disabled')){$("#gatherButton").trigger('click')}} g = setInterval(gather, 1000) c…
Here's a way to get the ship, max out the hull, launch and win:
Ship.init();State.ship = {hull:10000, thrusters:10000};Ship.liftOff();