I never paid much attention to the message box, but seriously .. it should scroll slightly faster I'm playing blitz runs lately, as if DoD was a realtime-hack&slay. After cleaning a zoo on DL12 I took a toilet break. When I came back I noticed there were still new messages appearing. I wanted to see how much I was ahead of my time. Well, my cigarette was faster than the message box My melee attacks cause 3 turns 3x3 grids (?) AoE. (Sadly) most mobs on DL12 resist this AoE. Since I'm playing very fast, I provoke the extra-movement glitch almost everytime I move after I hit. AoE effects still happen, despite non-moving monsters. All in all this produces a lot of "useless" messages. Anyway, I didn't know it's possible to be more than 5min faster than the message box Am I playing too fast, or is the game too slow?
In my experience the problem comes from enemy attack animations. I'd like to turn those off sometimes, or have them auto-turnoff when there are a large number of characters on screen.
I'd say you're probably going too fast since this game wasn't designed to be played in real time. However I do wish that the message box could scroll faster, as I play slow and I've been 30 sec ahead of the box at times. Perhaps an option to change the scroll speed similar to the + and - keys for game speed?
Zoos can put you over 10-15 minutes ahead of the message box, even if you just loaded a save from right before opening the door to it...
Agreed, a faster message box would be good. Sometimes I want to see what were my last few actions (e.g. opening a 'dark' chest/fridge/barbecue and being lazy to look at my inventory to see if there's a new item) and the message board is still scrolling.
...I was not aware that people close their inventories in this game. But yes, faster scrolling in the message pane would be nice.
I wasn't aware the text box said jokes. I have never used the thing because I'm always 10-20 minutes ahead of it. Corruption is the worst because I could wait for the message but it quicker to slowly comb over all of my items to look for a change. If we can't speed it up then I would just get rid of the thing. It is of no use to me in it's current state.
I generally check the message boards after a zoo while waiting for the scroll to catch up. But yes, a faster scroll (or a "CATCH UP!" button that cleared it) would be great. Also, this "" looks like a painful bowel movement expression to me.
Really it would be vastly improved if it stayed the same and did two things: 1) Moved up mutli-line information (e.g. someone with a few too many damage type bonuses attacks) at an appropriate speed. 2x for two lines, 3x for 3 lines 2) Didn't tell you useless information - "the spell does nothing" - I see that jackass.
Yeah Corruption and Counter look kinda similar when flashed on the screen with 3+ other words flashing as well.
