🚀 go-pugleaf

	Hey there.  I picked up a copy of star trail, and I have only 1
problem with it.  It seems that when you are in combat, if you cast a
spell the entire game gets really messed up.  You can't see what the
heck is going on in combat anymore.  Has anyone else had this sort of
problem?  Is there going to be a patch put out somewhere so I can get
this fixed and play my game?  Arrrrggg...I'd hate to not be able to play
this correctly now that I've bought it.

-- 
life is not lost by dying                                        
life is lost minute by minute day by dragging day                
in all the small uncaring ways     - stephen vincent benet       

First of all, the parts with the jumping from rock to rock and instantly dying 
if you miss DEFINITELY need to go.  That was THE most annoying part of U8.
As for combat, I think that, as suggested before, you should have a choice 
between turn-based and real time.  If you go with the real time, you should be 
able to move without having to sheath your sword, run over to the spot, draw 
your sword again, and then finally be able to attack.  Also, in U8, fighting 
more than one opponent was next to impossible.  I'm not sure how you could 
solve that, but something needs to be done.
Inventory needs to be improved from U8.  It was next to impossible to pull 
anything out in time to use it combat, specifically against the Ghosts (in 
U8), who while you were trying to pull out you're little icon thingy for the 
spell were pounding you to death.
I might be going against public opinion when I say this, but I think it would 
be REALLY cool if there was some sort of a MAJOR plot twist right in the 
beginning.  Like, for instance, the Avatar fought and killed the Guardian, but 
now, he's been corupted and took his place.  You have to play someone else 
totally new and try to defeat the Avatar.  Just my humble opinion.
Thanks for listening!

In <1994Nov13....@ultb.isc.rit.edu> jcn...@ultb.isc.rit.edu 
(Jimbola) writes: 

>
>	Hey there.  I picked up a copy of star trail, and I have only 1
>problem with it.  It seems that when you are in combat, if you cast a
>spell the entire game gets really messed up.  You can't see what the
>heck is going on in combat anymore.  Has anyone else had this sort of
>problem?  Is there going to be a patch put out somewhere so I can get
>this fixed and play my game?  Arrrrggg...I'd hate to not be able to 
play
>this correctly now that I've bought it.
>
I haven't seen anything like this happen.  I've played for 10-15 hours 
and only had one problem.  This occured when I tried to go off the map 
and encountered the elves and tried to retreat.  The game locked up.  
Besides that the game hasn't had a single problem.  

I might add that the game doesn't functions correctly if you don't set 
it up as the installation instructions say.  You need to have about 1MB 
of Expanded memory.  If you have less or none at all the game will run 
but it crashes and does weird things.

John