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Circadian Dice

A single-player game of turn-based dice building combat! · By shuffleup, Strumbones

Locking Dice mechanism is backwards.

A topic by FuzzyTriangles created Jun 14, 2021 Views: 405 Replies: 1
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So I was super excited when I finally discovered you can lock and unlock dice for re-rolls. Upon activation, all of the dice were in "locked" status. So I "unlocked" the dice that I wanted to re-roll (because that's the only way it could possibly make sense), and lo-and behold, my locked dice were the only ones that got re-rolled, causing me to wipe a 5-star run. 

WTF this makes no sense. How does a locked die face get re-rolled and the unlocked ones stick around? Logically I can't imagine why it's designed this way.


BTW I absolutely love this game and am in no way salty. I can work around it. Just wanted to raise some awareness. 
Thank you, dev. This game is a ton of fun and I love learning the intricacies and strategies. 

Developer

Thanks for the feedback! Sorry about your 5-star run :(

I agree completely - locked dice should not be rerolled, and vice versa. I actually think this is a UI issue - I'm guessing that you were using Sculpt Fate as this happened? For that ability, it made sense to me that the buttons used to lock the dice showed a closed padlock while the dice were unlocked (since you use the button to lock the die), but I totally get that it can be interpreted as "this die is now locked". It's probably even the most logical interpretation. 

I'll definitely think about how to make this more clear in future versions. Thanks again!