Boneyard Beta - Scavenging Suggestion

Sneakypantz

I remember when I had the iOS version of Boneyard, I acquired the Magical Bag that kept everything from game to game. It made farming for those rare rings easier and I was progressively able to get better loot and progressively get a better high score as a result.

Now I can see why it was removed, so as to give purpose to using gold, etc. etc. with the Scavenger. However, I feel Scavenger should retain the Rings from all previous games and, perhaps, sell individual ones to you for a price to reuse in the next game. This way if you accidentally start a game without Scavenging, you don't lose hours of work getting back those 3 100% XP increase rings and such. Real buzzkill!

SomeRandomHEFan

Though I haven't unlocked him yet, I already anticipated that he wouldn't offer any of the rings from older runs. Because of this, I was planning to unlock him as quickly as possible, even if this meant having to refrain from buying a lot of perks and fates until then. I wanted to minimize the risk of getting awesome rings that I can't keep. So I agree that it would be nice if he sold everything I ever found.

On an unrelated note, it feels rather weird for the archchancellor to claim he's available for help even before unlocking him.

war2k

actually the scavenger does exactly that, he stores all your rings from all your runs. the only rings you lose are the ones you take with you to a graveyard and then leave a graveyard just to start a new game. it's better to just let yourself die this way you can keep your rings and start a new game.

Sneakypantz

Ok, then I lost some rings and am unsure whether or not it's because I closed a game prematurely or it's a bug. I'll keep an eye out on this. Thank you!

Raptisoft

Yes, keep an eye out.  The Scavenger should have *everything* unless you unforge it. 

However, if you abort a character, or restart a game without the character dying, the scavenger won't have his stuff.  Another forum member suggested this was a simulation of the cowardly wizard running off to save his hide and that is now unalterable canon.

Sneakypantz

Yeah, I LOL'd at that.

Sneakypantz

@raptisoft, ok definitely a bug here. Here's what happened. Last night, scavenged all my rings into inventory and started a new game. About a minute into the game, I closed my phone down for bedtime - not powered off, just normal screen-off. When I opened the game and after the Raptisoft splash screen, I hit Play and it didn't ask me to Resume game. Rather, I was at Wizard selection and the Scavenger had nothing in inventory. I didn't quit previous game. Its as if the game "timed-out" and acted like I had quit the game.

Sneakypantz

Just happened again, after 3 hours. Grabbed all my rings from Scavenger, my Bargain Bag and started a fresh game. 5-10 seconds after Solomon finished his beginning speech, I hit my Android Home button. Ran Device Maintenance to cleanup memory & close background apps. Opened Boneyard, got splash screen, pressed Play and it didn't Resume - lost all rings and the 3k gold spent on Bargain Bag. It did, however, remember my Bargain Bag from previous game.

Raptisoft

Okay, so it didn't WIPE your game, but it did wipe all the latest details, correct?

(BTW, the Android OS can shut down an app at any time after you hit home-- it often shuts down "sleeping" apps to recover memory or whatever other reason.  Nothing I can do about it, that's just how modern phone OS's work-- iPhone too).

Sneakypantz

@raptisoft, it keeps all Perk and Fate purchases. It keeps Gold count and Bargain Bag, but acts as if I purposely quit the game and my Wizard ran off with my Rings

Raptisoft

Okay... I think I know what that is.  When I put up another beta, please try this exact scenario again.

Raptisoft

Sneaky, one more question if you please... does this happen EVERY TIME without fail in the above scenario, or does it sometimes work?

Sneakypantz

When it happens, it's random. Sometimes I can go hours without it happening. I tried reproducing it with home button device maintenance and couldn't get it to go.

Raptisoft

All right.  This plus the issue with the rings losing their effect text seem to have something to do with the game not reading/writing the game data correctly.  I'm working on it.  Can't release with this stuff happening!