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yeah i miss the mirak that did gamedev sometimes too

...How high a pitch? :blobsweat:

How could I avoid inflicting the player with "i might need it later" syndrome?
How can we encourage the use of items so that people don't get the feeling that they might need those items later on, therefore never using them?

I was thinking of this the other day while thinking how fun it would be to "hide" cutscene triggers inside clones of useful items. For example, if my inventory system slots potions by 1 unit per item slot instead of stacking, one of those "potions" could actually be a trigger event that starts the sidequest "the spoiled potion".

The player will most likely have more chances of using that fake potion since potions are, well, crucial healing items. However what about elixirs? That one cureall that players always save for when they need it but end up finishing the game having like 10 of those. I'd assume the chances of them using it will have a much lower success margin.

So back to the question, how do I encourage players to use their items? How do you do it?

I know i'll be wasting precious minutes of my time on a reply that won't even be read but I basically agree with everything Unity said, particularly these two parts:

author=Unity
It all stems from a massive sense of entitlement from KK, where they want things free, fast and without questions or compensation. Most of us at this point just don't respond to their threads for this very same reason.

This is one of the reasons I didn't even bother responding to your weird "@Mirak" thing. On one hand because I don't really know you, so I'd expect at least a polite "please" at the end of a request for what would have been an obviously unpaid and uncompensated thing, but mostly and more importantly, because of this next bit:

author=Unity
They view the very people who have made essential building blocks of their own projects as bad people who should be taken down a peg! This is how they treat people who have been doing good work for the community for years!

I'm not sure if after your angry bouts of rambling you immediately forget it happened, or attempt to act like it never did happen, but I do remember how you've lambasted plugin creators & graphic artists for monetizing their work in the past, something I happen to do as well. And I particularly remember with annoyance that one time you got banned from RMN discord for literally throwing bile and shit (all of it unhinged falsities) at everybody. This, amongst many other memorable (in the worst way) Krimsonkatt "bits".

You make it very easy to dislike you.

On the off chance you do want to reply to this please don't bother adding justifications on why you behave the way you do or any family history or things like that, because to me it's clear you're just some dumb kid who's transitioning from teen to adulthood while smashing your head against rocks here and there which I can sort of sympathize with, and I wonder if all you need is just a couple more years before the dumb wears off, but for the time being you are definitely not a very pleasant person to talk to or engage with and I seriously can't help but wonder if you were snapping your fingers when you "asked me without asking" to make your karen sprite.

Finally, the main reason why I ignored the thread, and Unity's best bit:

author=Unity
The whole summary of this very thread is "user wanted someone to make something for them for a game they are already late on delivering, who got impatient immediately and just made the thing anyway." The literal best response is just to ignore them, because they'll be forced to make it themselves or live without it.

Look at that, I ignored it and you made your own Karen sprite, which looks even better than what I'd have done for you for free. So once again you demonstrate you have the raw potential to be able to achieve your own vision with your own hands, you'd just rather prefer not to do it.

What this tells me is that Unity is right, and that the best way to incentivize you to get your hands dirty in the development process and perhaps gain some perspective that helps you understand why people charging money for stuff doesn't automatically make them "evil" is to simply ignore your threads requesting help of that sort. It may end up doing the opposite of course, you might become even more bitter and finally step on the shit pedal hard enough for you to get banned from the forums too which would be quite sad. If like you said you're being banned from all these venues, maybe it's time to do some introspection and check yourself before you wreck yourself.

It's not fun at all to have a bad standing in a community full of kind people who help each other, and it's even worse when you try to come back after you've burned bridges, just ask anybody who has had an "i'm leaving forever" meltdown and came back later to any community, the sudden uncomfortable and cautious silence when you reopen the door is not a pleasant feeling at all. Rebuilding is even less pleasant. So don't fucking burn bridges before you cross them, and specially not when you're standing halfway at the crossing.