First, I'd like to thank you for all of your questions and feedback regarding recent developments. Now, to address your primary concerns:
* It's a single-step command that simply changes quest rules while affecting the quest file in no other way whatsoever. The dialog box itself comprises 80% of the code for the whole feature.
* I understand the potential for confusion, so the dialog text makes it quite clear that rulesets are not quest rules, and that it's possible to change individual rules after selecting a ruleset.
* I do think it's important! ZC has long passed the point where quest rules were merely minor deviations from NES behaviour, and this feature acknowledges that they can and do affect core parts of the game engine.
* "Can you disable the box?" I might provide that option, if a significant proportion of you open ZQuest before loading an in-progress quest file.
That is all.
_L_ wrote:* "Can you disable the box?" I might provide that option, if a significant proportion of you open ZQuest before loading an in-progress quest file.
How else are we supposed to load up a QST file without opening ZQuest first?
Are we getting a brand new editor or something, and we're phasing out ZQuest?
If you use Z-Launcher, then there is an option to load the last opened quest when launching ZQuest.
spyk99999 wrote:If you use Z-Launcher, then there is an option to load the last opened quest when launching ZQuest.
Which is actually an option in ZQuest itself.
_L_ wrote:First, I'd like to thank you for all of your questions and feedback regarding recent developments. Now, to address your primary concerns:* It's a single-step command that simply changes quest rules while affecting the quest file in no other way whatsoever. The dialog box itself comprises 80% of the code for the whole feature.
* I understand the potential for confusion, so the dialog text makes it quite clear that rulesets are not quest rules, and that it's possible to change individual rules after selecting a ruleset.
* I do think it's important! ZC has long passed the point where quest rules were merely minor deviations from NES behaviour, and this feature acknowledges that they can and do affect core parts of the game engine.
* "Can you disable the box?" I might provide that option, if a significant proportion of you open ZQuest before loading an in-progress quest file.
That is all.
I like this idea. I hate the step of "manually trudge through 8 hundred pages of rules, reading each one so you don't forget something and have to go back later to turn it on, but it doesn't matter since you'll still have to anyway". If we get the option to turn it off, though, I would like for us to be able to choose a default.
Truthfully, I'd rather be able to have custom templates. However, I can understand why that wouldn't happen by 2.5.
Sephiroth wrote:How else are we supposed to load up a QST file without opening ZQuest first?
Well, maybe double-clicking the quest file would work?
Or you could drag it onto the ZQuest icon! I do that all the time!
Yeah, I think it was a great idea _L_. Newcomers will find that so much easier to understand. Thumbs way up on that one.
_L_ wrote:Well, maybe double-clicking the quest file would work?Or you could drag it onto the ZQuest icon! I do that all the time!
Interesting. That works on Windows too? I've never even thought to do that.
_L_ wrote:Well, maybe double-clicking the quest file would work?Or you could drag it onto the ZQuest icon! I do that all the time!
Nope, it wants me to find an application that will open QST files.
Edit: Oh wait, new error:
"This file does not have a program associated with it for performing this action. Create an association in the Folder Options control panel."
spyk99999 wrote:If you use Z-Launcher, then there is an option to load the last opened quest when launching ZQuest.
Hmm? I use this. However I don't overwrite previous versions when a new build comes out.
Nope, it wants me to find an application that will open QST files.Edit: Oh wait, new error:
"This file does not have a program associated with it for performing this action. Create an association in the Folder Options control panel."
Uh, duh? tell it to open it with zquest 😉
I'm so glad we decided to get _L_ on this project :x