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Re: TOA--what now?
Posted By: gremlinn, on host 24.25.220.173
Date: Wednesday, June 19, 2002, at 03:52:37
In Reply To: Re: TOA--what now? posted by gremlinn on Wednesday, June 19, 2002, at 02:49:49:

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> > > P.S. oops, i haven't finished hawson's. i thought i got all the pics, help here would be appreciated too. :)
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> > There has REALLY got to be something wrong with this mission. First you have to take the pictures he says to take. No problem. Then you have to find the missing artifact... making 6 in all. Then, don't ask me why, you have to take the original pictures AGAIN. Hope gremlin and sam read this and fix things up.
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> So you're saying that you took the museum pictures, then the missing artifact picture, then you go back and talk to the professor and he says you're not done? Or is there some other step in between? I'll check the code to see if anything weird could happen with that.

Hmm, I looked through everything, and I don't see anything wrong. A certain variable stores the number of unique items you've taken pictures of (0-6), and I checked that this variable always increments when you take a certain item's picture the first time, and never again after that. I also checked to make sure that no typos were causing that variable to be reset or decremented anywhere, which is the only way I can see buggy behavior coming into play.

Now what might have happened, but would not be accountable to buggy code, is a freak occurrence of a game file being corrupted and having some of the variables' values changed. This has actually happened in the past before to a few POAT games.

(I peeked at a game file "ryacam2" which hasn't been touched since May 1 -- if that's the game in which this happened, I can tell you that the first time you went back to Hawson you had forgotten the missing artifact picture, so you had only 5 of the 6 at that point -- so this wouldn't have been a bug.)

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