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"Collapses (v4)" by Max

added 23 Jun 2005 22:28
Solved10/11
Cooked0/11
Difficulty6.18
Style6.36
Rigidity6.63
Shortest Solution
NameOriginal
Length243 moves
ByMax
On23 Jun 2005 22:28

Comments (turn spoilers off)
3294 Collapses (v4) Tom 7 (1) Wed 29 Jun 2005 01:26  
  Yes, it's only supposed to be a single click. It's possible that your mouse is actually sending two clicks (mine does this somtimes, annoyingly), or else it could be triggering the bug (which I have not tracked down) some other way. Thanks, it's good to know this is at least related to semi-known problem.
 
3291 Collapses (v4) bpotetz (144) Wed 29 Jun 2005 00:50  
  Nope, you're right. Keyboard works fine. When I click, though, I only have to single click. That's normal, right? Just nonstandard.
 
3289 Collapses (v4) Tom 7 (1) Wed 29 Jun 2005 00:26  
  Yes, thanks for that. By the way: do you get the crashing if you enter [Deleted Levels] using the keyboard? I only get it with your player file if I click, and actually, double-click. (which I will fix, but I want to make sure I'm fixing ALL the problems)
 
3280 Collapses (v4) bpotetz (144) Tue 28 Jun 2005 18:46  
  No problem, Max. I'm up & running again, and now Tom has something weird to debug.
 
3225 Collapses (v4) Max (61) Fri 24 Jun 2005 23:21 SPOILER
  Hey, glad you liked it, John! Thanks for putting up with my multiple versions (although maybe your last comment should have been a spoiler ;) )
 
3218 Collapses (v4) John Lewis (411) Fri 24 Jun 2005 21:05  
  Brilliant! I solved it last night. This is one of the greatest levels ever!! Very clever, especially how you push the marbles in the same order every time...
 
3216 Collapses (v4) Tom 7 (1) Fri 24 Jun 2005 00:33  
  Brian: It would help me if you could zip up your whole escape directory and send it to me (before doing anything that might make the problem go away), since if it's crashing predictably then that means it's not handling some (probably broken) data correctly, when it should be. I can probably fix it for you.

If updating doesn't fix the problem with the Deleted dir, then it's probably a problem in your player file, like a bad solution. You probably won't lose any solutions: the game keeps versioned backups (as Potetz.esp.~nnnn), and the player file can also be edited to remove individual solutions fairly easily.
 
3215 Collapses (v4) Max (61) Thu 23 Jun 2005 23:56  
  Oh man, sorry Brian! I feel terrible that I've caused you such woes, especially since you've dutifully solved it the intended way each time, but it was the only way to fix the level. Guess I should have issued a warning. The same method will work, though, if not the same exact set of moves, since you have to start off pushing...
 
3214 Collapses (v4) bpotetz (144) Thu 23 Jun 2005 23:24  
  Ack! When I found I could not cntrl-0 this from v3 (I've always played it the intended way), I tried to open up a second instance of escape to copy off of (running Win2k), but it crashed when I opened the Deleted directory, and now it always crashes when I open Deleted, even if I only have 1 instance up. I guess I'll have to reinstall.
 
3213 Collapses (v4) Max (61) Thu 23 Jun 2005 22:34  
  This is much tighter now, once again thankfully without having to sacrifice any of the level's intent. I even got to add in another mechanism to the pile ;). Thanks John for helping me clean this one up!
 
3211 Collapses (v4) Max (61) Thu 23 Jun 2005 22:28  
  'Collapses (v4)' uploaded by Max.