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"Your honor, he was trying to date Harvey." "Divorce granted. You get all the financial resources, but you have to pay for his court-ordered therapy."
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I know this joke is played out but I gave Jodi a diamond for her birthday and the next day Kent send me a megabomb.
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So I've been trying to play this game only lightly-spoilered, not reading this thread. That said, can somebody tell me why my start-to-finish, sprinkler-fed crops on are growing at different speeds?
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resistentialism posted:So I've been trying to play this game only lightly-spoilered, not reading this thread. That said, can somebody tell me why my start-to-finish, sprinkler-fed crops on are growing at different speeds? presuming they were all planted the same day, with no speed-gro used? nope! never seen that poo poo! not even being sarcastic, no clue why that would be.
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resistentialism posted:So I've been trying to play this game only lightly-spoilered, not reading this thread. That said, can somebody tell me why my start-to-finish, sprinkler-fed crops on are growing at different speeds? Sorry for asking dumb questions but: (1) You mean different squares of the same crop are growing at different speeds, right? (2) Are you SURE every square is covered by a sprinkler? The first sprinkler you can make covers only the 4 directly adjacent tiles, *not* the 4 diagonally adjacent. (3) You didn't put speed-gro on anything, right? And if for some reason you hoed a square that's covered by a sprinkler and then planted a crop, it becomes *not* watered and you have to manually water it if you want it to register as watered for that day.
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Mar 2, 2017 03:31
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Pretty sure I've kept everything equal I can think of. It's iridium sprinklers with 4 spaces between. Never used any of the speed up, either. Thought I had regular fertilizer on every square. Sometimes I've noticed the manual watering can shooting water with a bit of a weird offset, too. Like one space down and to the right of where it should be, until I switch screens or items and it goes away. Sometimes rarely I'm holding down the grab button and I seem to be picking up phantom crops, not sure about that.
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Mar 2, 2017 03:35
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resistentialism posted:Pretty sure I've kept everything equal I can think of. It's iridium sprinklers with 4 spaces between. Never used any of the speed up, either. Thought I had regular fertilizer on every square. I'd recommend going into the options and turning on the setting that shows where your tool is aiming. It's really a lifesaver, sometimes you get offset for whatever reason and the wrong patch gets watered. If the patch doesn't change color, it's not watered. The phantom crops can be for certain plants - potatoes can sometimes give bonus crops, and most berries give a bunch per square.
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Mar 2, 2017 03:40
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resistentialism posted:So I've been trying to play this game only lightly-spoilered, not reading this thread. That said, can somebody tell me why my start-to-finish, sprinkler-fed crops on are growing at different speeds? Trying to get all of your crops of pop on the same day hurts profitability. Just be chill and let the plants do their thing.
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resistentialism posted:Pretty sure I've kept everything equal I can think of. It's iridium sprinklers with 4 spaces between. Never used any of the speed up, either. Thought I had regular fertilizer on every square. PC or console?
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Mar 2, 2017 03:47
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uh doctor softboy is the best. who else would you pick? shane?
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Eric the Mauve posted:PC or console? PC. Pretty sure I've had a handle on everything said so far. I was just wondering if there were any especially hidden mechanics.
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resistentialism posted:PC. Pretty sure I've had a handle on everything said so far. I was just wondering if there were any especially hidden mechanics. Some of them might have been grown by a fairy.
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Oh ya, I saw that cutscene the first year. This is second summer, though, and it's not a big clump of them.
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resistentialism posted:Oh ya, I saw that cutscene the first year. This is second summer, though, and it's not a big clump of them. edit: On second thought, I've also had this happen. So I don't know!! Khorne fucked around with this message at 07:28 on Mar 2, 2017 |
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Mar 2, 2017 04:32
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Ok, I'll pay close attention at the start of fall and see if it makes any difference.
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Khorne posted:It might have to do with whether the plot was watered the day you planted it or not. That and the fairy are the only two variables I can think of that mess with that. Yeah I’m thinking this. If you have plants in the ground on the last day of the previous month, the sprinklers will water them. This applies to withered plants, plants ready to harvest, and even plants that were planted on the last day of the month. On the first of the next month, you remove the old plants and the ground remains moist. All you have to do is plant new seeds. It’s a good strategy for things like cranberries where you need them watered on the first day of the month to maximise the number of harvests and you have a major time crunch. Even if you have to waste cheap seeds, it can be worth it. For cranberries specifically, try to plant wheat on Summer 25 on any plot you want to put cranberries on that doesn’t already have a blueberry bush or other regrowing crop. You can harvest the wheat on Fall 1 and then all you have to do is plant the cranberries. The sprinklers will have watered the wheat even though it’s ready to harvest. Platystemon fucked around with this message at 06:46 on Mar 2, 2017 |
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That is genius. Thank you.
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Cythereal posted:I remember seeing a post about this earlier in the thread, the only person it's possible to dance with the first year is Haley, and even then it takes some luck and planning your first year entirely around making Haley happy. I go to the dance with Abigail the first year when I start a new game. I think Leah is also an option if you buy salads from the bar. Now that Emily is a bachelorette you can get her to 4 hearts in time too, but I don't know if you can dance with her.
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ive definitely had plants that are smack in the middle of a 3x3 or 3x6 space that was guaranteed to be watered just mature a day late. i have no idea why it happens
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resistentialism posted:So I've been trying to play this game only lightly-spoilered, not reading this thread. That said, can somebody tell me why my start-to-finish, sprinkler-fed crops on are growing at different speeds?
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Mar 2, 2017 13:47
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Platystemon posted:Yeah I’m thinking this. The other great thing is that I haven't actually used my watering can in over a year and have no need to upgrade my tools past gold :x
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I was going to go outdoor-garden-free this Spring but succumbed and planted 2 3x3 plots of garlic outside. I <3 my greenhouse.
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Platystemon posted:A great tip. Thanks that is a great tip. Can't help but feel kinda stupid I never thought of that myself though. 
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resistentialism posted:Pretty sure I've kept everything equal I can think of. It's iridium sprinklers with 4 spaces between. Never used any of the speed up, either. Thought I had regular fertilizer on every square. The weird offset is because of the mouse cursor. I generally play Stardew Valley in a window, so I just have to move the cursor out of the window sometimes if I'm farming.
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Is there some kind of heuristic or muscle memory I can employ to keep myself from constantly performing the wrong action on the wrong thing in the wrong direction? The control scheme is incredibly sensitive and context-sensitive and depends so much on where the cursor is relative to your avatar, which way your avatar is facing, and what you're holding in your hand. I've put like 30 hours in and I still, always, end up watering buildings, pickaxing in the wrong direction, and failing to orient myself correctly to talk to NPCs.
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horse mans posted:Is there some kind of heuristic or muscle memory I can employ to keep myself from constantly performing the wrong action on the wrong thing in the wrong direction? The control scheme is incredibly sensitive and context-sensitive and depends so much on where the cursor is relative to your avatar, which way your avatar is facing, and what you're holding in your hand. I've put like 30 hours in and I still, always, end up watering buildings, pickaxing in the wrong direction, and failing to orient myself correctly to talk to NPCs.
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I want to learn how to code by creating a game like Concerned Ape. But whenever I sit down to design it the scope gets too big and unwieldy. Maybe I should start on the other end and try to get a little guy to move on a screen first. I can already tell my riverlands farm is going to run out of trees and was probably a bad idea.
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vermin posted:I want to learn how to code by creating a game like Concerned Ape. But whenever I sit down to design it the scope gets too big and unwieldy. Maybe I should start on the other end and try to get a little guy to move on a screen first. start by cloning your favorite 8-bit game in your language of choice. games that early were very simple by necessity and have been well worn by most other game enthusiasts. you will find many resources to help you map out everything from dig dug to maze runners to mario. you will make thousands of mistakes and learn a lot. then after loving up but kinda finishing a good 2-4 projects (depending on scope) you will have the requisite experience required to go do something a little more ambitious. you probably want to go from there by thinking about how to make things a little different, not even necessarily better. just different or more free. one of my initial ideas was to make a fully featured online chess game where two peopel could just sit down and play, but allow a pre-game portion where you set up the game however you want. so if you want to start out by just knocking the rooks off the board or replacing the knights with two more bishops, go right ahead. or if you want to make something ridiculous like 2 kings and 5 black rooks go ahead. basically everyone i showed it to found a way to enjoy it, whether by loving around, starting a handicap game with a friend, using it for teaching, etc etc etc. the reason everyone fails at games is because programming is taxing. not hard, but loving taxing. it drains your skull. that's really the hurdle you need to learn to deal with, not the actual learning to code part.
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Coolguye posted:the reason everyone fails at games is because programming is taxing. not hard, but loving taxing. it drains your skull. that's really the hurdle you need to learn to deal with, not the actual learning to code part.
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horse mans posted:Is there some kind of heuristic or muscle memory I can employ to keep myself from constantly performing the wrong action on the wrong thing in the wrong direction? The control scheme is incredibly sensitive and context-sensitive and depends so much on where the cursor is relative to your avatar, which way your avatar is facing, and what you're holding in your hand. I've put like 30 hours in and I still, always, end up watering buildings, pickaxing in the wrong direction, and failing to orient myself correctly to talk to NPCs. Go into options and turn on target tile highlighting. That while always mark which square you're about to work on and might help you keep your contexts in mind.
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Is there a mod to make peaches yellow?
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Programming is (relatively) easy. The part that makes me cry is debugging. You wrote this beautiful command and now the guy is spinning around and clipping through his own foot and WHYYYYYY.  What always gets me is design/architecture/planning. Should I go with this, that, or the other design choice here? Should I use an ORM, statement mapper, or just write everything to a big drat XML file? How early in the flow should I handle error checking and object initialization? Endless decisions that leave me hee-hawing like Buridan's rear end.But yeah, programming isn't too hard once you know what you're doing, it just takes a lot of time and effort. Like, removing an engine block from a car isn't complicated, but it's hard to lift a 1/4 ton weight. Programming isn't hard, but it's complicated, so yeah, like Coolguye said, you should start with something simple that you can build up from.
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Today I learned that if you are trapped behind a sleeping animal -- say it's between you and the door -- there is absolutely nothing you can do and you're stuck waiting to fall asleep in the barn. No amount of running at the animal convinces it to move.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Today I learned that if you are trapped behind a sleeping animal -- say it's between you and the door -- there is absolutely nothing you can do and you're stuck waiting to fall asleep in the barn. No amount of running at the animal convinces it to move. Getting stuck is also possible with your child.
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I think I've run through the cat a few times just by holding buttons down. I run through the wife to get into bed just because it's funny. The real problem was putting the flute block right on the front door thinking it was something you would walk over top of, like a path. Couldn't figure out how to pick it up again.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Today I learned that if you are trapped behind a sleeping animal -- say it's between you and the door -- there is absolutely nothing you can do and you're stuck waiting to fall asleep in the barn. No amount of running at the animal convinces it to move. If you bring up the "transfer animals" dialog it will randomize the position of all animals in the barn. I don't know if this will work on a sleeping animal, but it has saved my bacon multiple times in mixed Pig/Keg barns.
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You can run through any animals/spouses/children/townspeople as long as you hold the button down in one direction long enough. It takes a few seconds, but eventually you clip through and can go about your business
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CainsDescendant posted:You can run through any animals/spouses/children/townspeople as long as you hold the button down in one direction long enough. It takes a few seconds, but eventually you clip through and can go about your business No, I tried it in the barn, and it doesn't work with a sleeping pig or sheep. I'll try "randomize animals" next time.
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resistentialism posted:PC. Pretty sure I've had a handle on everything said so far. I was just wondering if there were any especially hidden mechanics. My guess is that it is end-of-season soil degradation. When a new season begins, the game will sometimes cause a square that is hoed to degrade into a regular soil square. Then, the game applies the sprinkler watering logic - so that any remaining hoes squares are watered. If you hoe down the un-hoed dirt squares, then do your planting - but don't manually water with the watering can, you will have some crops that are delayed by one day as the game considers that crop "unwatered" so it does not apply the "grow one more day". Thiis can be especially apparent when growing wild seeds, as picking up the plant causes the soil to degrade. At least, that is my understanding. This is why having it rain on the first of the season when replanting a sprinkler field is good. hope this helps
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