Re: [Enigma-devel] .enigmarc2 for par times

[Tacvek]

Thanks For the message, but because I don't maintain the par times, I think 
it may be more useful on the list, which I have CCed.
;)

and a reply to part of your message:
> It's hard to tell whether the level designers intended this or not, so
> I assume it's a valid way to solve the level, by default...

In the case of Oxyd ports, I would consider it a level bug only if it was 
not possible in the original.
Open question: Can this be reproduced on Per.Oxyd?

By engine bugs, I was meaning weird things like one time when magnets in a 
certain level mysteriously did not work, as a result of an engine change. Or 
weird things like moving through tiles you were not intended to.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Drake Wilson" <address@hidden>
To: "Tacvek" <address@hidden>
Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 6:06 PM
Subject: Re: [Enigma-devel] .enigmarc2 for par times


> Quoth Tacvek <address@hidden>, on 2005-09-21 13:00:11 -0400:
> > Are there any times in that file that are possible only due to a 
> > glitch/bug
> > in Enigma?
> > (a glitch/bug in the level, rather than the engine is not a big deal
> > because when it is fixed the version will be updated and all times
> > invalidated anyway)
> >
> > If so care can be taken to avoid those lines being used to update the par
> > times.
>
> That's a good point; I think I may have a time in there for the
> nonexistent "Epimenides" level (from one of the posts to the list)
> which I sort of shoved into the Enigma 3 pack locally in order to try
> it out.  That should be removed just in case there's a conflict, since
> it doesn't correspond to any "official" Enigma 0.92 level AFAIK.
> Other than that, paging through the level packs, I don't see any cases
> where a game engine bug has helped me.
>
> In some cases I used a stranger-than-usual strategy in order to solve
> levels, some of which might be construed as level bugs; for instance,
> in Oxyds #117 "Per.Oxyd 55", my strategy was (rot13 to avoid
> spoilers):
>
>  1. Trg pehfurq ol obyqre.  Qvr.
>  2. Erfcnja, abg orgjrra gur obyqref.  Tb pbhagre-pybpxjvfr naq ragre
>     gur vaare nern.  Uvg gur bklq.  Uvg gur fjvgpu gb ghea ba gur ynfre.
>     Teno gur sybccl.  Uvg gur ynfre ornz.  Qvr.
>  3. Erfcnja, cebonoyl abg orgjrra gur obyqref.  Tb pybpxjvfr naq chg gur
>     sybccl va gur sybccl fybg.  Gur bar-jnl neebjf fjvgpu.  Hfr gur ybjre
>     bar-jnl neebj gb uvg gur frpbaq bklq.  Jva.
>
> It's hard to tell whether the level designers intended this or not, so
> I assume it's a valid way to solve the level, by default...
>
>   ---> Drake Wilson