At last! Discotheque Of Doom ins running for me...

[RobSeegel]

7B6B6F7B577B6E1A0 wrote:

That sounds like mine.... 8-) !
I have

invented

the

bury-the-lever-in-the-ground-feature

(meaning I have discovered that it works) and then used it extensively as I always found it looked better - especially in those cases when those 'lever-bottoms' of different color (yellow/green) were screwing up my room designs. I know that there is a reason for these different colors.... but I found in most cases that this information isn't really necessary.

So I'm afraid - there goes another great feature (which originated in an omission or bug until some custom mansion designer made it a feature).... because Vern has

improved

it.
In German we have a slang word for that: verschlimmbessern. It is an artificial word made from 2 words:

to improve

and

to make it worse

(at the same time)......  I know Vern only means well.... but sometimes I fear he's taking out too many of the quirks and odds that make MM so wonderful... even if most of them were never intended. 
To think that I have to go thru all my mansions and dig out all the levers makes me want to cry.....!

It probably won't cheer you up, but I think I wrote a Perl script back then that detects each case. It would take very little effort to modify the script to move each lever up a little, and  report the room. I'm not sure - I may have already done this and forgotten.

The odd thing about this change is that I don't believe it was in response to your mansions. There was some other issue that was happening, that he had been trying to fix. I can remember being surprised that the levers were broken in the mansions I saw them in. It makes me wonder if this could be addressed through custom graphics instead.

Thanks for the new German word - I love that about the German language. There are lots of words like that. It's been too long since I was last there. I miss it.

665B56675151535158340 wrote:
- Some mansions used portions of the ladder in unusually decorative ways. They ended up not resembling ladders whatsoever. The new game doesn't allow these ladder pieces to work, which broke a few puzzles.

- The behavior of some of the disappearing platforms changed so that if you jumped from a disappearing platform from one screen onto a floating platform in another screen, that platform might not be there to land on.

That sounds not good......   I might have used a feature like that once in a while.

Maybe, I'll have to check my notes if I still have them. I don't think this happened as much as anyone thought. I was a little surprised that Vern changed this behavior. I forget the rationale.