Improbable Island Message of the Day (MoTD)

New items, new lore, new combat mechanics, new crates, death
Admin CavemanJoe – 2020-02-05 01:46:19 [Permalink]
Hey, everyone! There are some new items in the game today, and some new lore to go with them.

The Hawton Meters allow you to see how random combat's going to be, and influence the breadth of that randomness! Combat will now be, on the whole, less random than it used to be, except when the Island is under a wave of high Chance energy (which your meter will tell you about). You can also use the meter to change the randomness of combat.

If you're up against something that's bound to knock you out and you need a little luck to win the fight, you can observe (and destroy) the meter to make things more random. Conversely, if you're in a fight that you should win as long as your opponent doesn't get any lucky hits in, you can open the observation shutter on an attached Manufactured Artifact to suck all the randomness out of an encounter.

To help get these new items into circulation, we're doing Double Crates for a little while. You already know that Supply Crates are dropped randomly onto the map whenever someone makes a donation to support the game - well, for the next two weeks we're gonna double the number of crates dropped, taking it up to twenty crates for every dollar donated. Altruism-class items from the Hunter's Lodge will drop double the usual number of crates too!

And now, some sad news - my maternal grandfather passed away this afternoon. We'd like to be able to attend his funeral in the UK, so now would be an excellent time to donate. I really appreciate anything you can spare.

If you're interested in the lore of the Hawton meters, you can read it here - I had a lot of fun writing it, and I hope you enjoy it.

Have fun!

~CMJ

New Monthly Memento, GDPR, Brexit, messing about with maths
Admin CavemanJoe – 2020-02-02 02:51:01 [Permalink]
Hey folks - the new Monthly Memento for February is out, and it's Valentine themed! You get the squelchy, dripping heart of some random monster. Give it a squeeze to feel romantic and gain some Stamina.

And speaking of godawful shit, I'd like to reassure you at this point that Brexit won't affect our privacy policy or how the Island stores or handles any of your data (long story short: we don't have any of your private data in the first place and we don't want it, we're not funded by adverts or spyware or surveillance capitalism, we're funded by selling awful Monthly Mementos at a tenner a pop). Regardless of what happens in the increasingly-bonkers English-speaking world, we'll continue to abide by the standards of the GDPR, because I think it's a pretty solid and reasonable chunk of legislation.

We've been trying to sort out some kinda preschool for Nerv so I've been unbelievably rushed lately, but I did finish off the Hawton meters last week, and we've booked in some uninterrupted Island time for this coming Tuesday. Hopefully I can get them tested and live then. I do hope you like them; this whole thing started off as me trying to hunt down a bug in the puzzle combat module, and now you'll be able to reach into the RNG and give it a tickle. I've no idea why I haven't done this before.

Have fun!

~CMJ

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