Started using OPSE for my Cairn solo playthrough. I love how you can do journaling in the app itself. Just need to export from time to time to save progress. Very useful tool for playing solo RPG / enhance your GMing repertoire.
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My problem is with the Android implementation. If I need to switch apps in the middle of a 'Player Action' without closing the action (so I can make a roll from my dice roller on my phone), when I switch back, it wipes what was written when the app becomes foregrounded. That's killing me. So is not being able to reopen a prior event (I can delete it, but not edit it). If you accidently hit ok, you can't go back and finish that event. And by trying to back out of an action you accidentally triggered, I now have an empty box (no text, no ability to delete the empty box.
My suggestions:
1) Find away to keep existing text in a player event (or other activity) so that you can go deal with something else (dice roll, email, etc) without losing what the player had typed even if it has not been committed with an 'ok'.
2) Let me add more to an entry that I accidentally said 'ok' with.
3) When any action is triggered by me selecting the chosen activity, have 'back out/cancel' instead of just 'ok' to get out of the that activity without forcing me to say okay and then delete afterwards.
Otherwise, I'm very glad you've done this, I just need the Android app to let me NOT lose text all the time without having to seal off an action that I'm in the middle of just because I backgrounded and then re-foregrounded...
If you want to make 'ok' always required before a switch, then I really would need 'edit' so I can bring it back up and continue in that event.
I do want to say *thank you*, not only for doing this on your own initiative, but for making it available and free. With everything being monetized nowdays, that's a great thing.
kaladorn at gmail dot com (Tom)
Hi there! Thanks for your comments and for using OPSE. I'm always happy to hear when people are using it to its fullest.
So, I have some good news! A new version of the OPSE app is in development that fixes everything you mentioned and then some. The new app will include a built-in dice roller, the ability to edit entries, save and load multiple story chains, and create your own custom tables. It will also likely include some new wording to make suit domains easier to read and understand along with a number of other quality of life improvements.
I really appreciate you taking the time to give this feedback!
Hey! Awesome!
I'm a dev, but I haven't done phone stuff or game stuff (not counting network layers). I'm glad you can take this on and am looking forward to the new release. Honestly, if you can set it up as PWYW or $2.00 or something, I'd throw in a bit (a coffee?). I'd pay more but haven't worked for a while due to family losses and disability, but your work is appreciated.
Have an extra thought:
I sometimes want to be able to just make a note. The individual OPSE actions provide stuff, but somewhere you'd like to have a note ability that is accessible if another action is up (like Player Action). I'd like to flip back and forth between a 'note' page that I can refer to while figuring out the action.
For instance:
Thorn has reached Greenport. A random event sees a neutral being in trouble - interpreted as Thorn seeing someone mugging the merchant. Thorn wades in (Player Action) .... and then realizes he's forgot the merchant's name. He can abort and garbage the Player Action just to get the merchant's name (because that is a while back) and when in Player Action, you can't bring up a note in which you'd have all your NPcs encounter (for example) because Player Action is foregrounded and I can't go look at another action/etc (the cards?).
So what I'm asking for is the ability to step out of the current action and look into another (like note page). I also hope there can be a 'note' which has no resolution involved - its just a data sack that can be looked through for NPC's names or names of houses or etc....
I know I could do this on paper, but I know it'll get drowned or tossed accidentally. I also think that if I had a note capability (me just putting things I need to recall), it makes OPSE capable of being fully mobile - without any paper or pen.
Something to think of.