Exult Forum

Hi, out of nostalgia I played around with both the original and Exult versions of U7 recently. I saw that the serving schedule in inns has been updated in Exult and is now closer to the original, but I still noticed some minor issues, so I thought it might help to report those.

* the plates are not well aligned with the cutlery
* sometimes the food is quite a bit beside the plate
* in some cases, the food does not appear correctly (see below)

They can easily be checked by starting a new game, sleeping 8 hours and then going to the tavern, where Spark will be eating. The food not appearing correctly happens when Spark is sitting at the south seat of northernmost table. Apollonia makes serving gestures, but no food appears.

Sometimes he sits on the east side of the table to the south instead, and then food appears.

Not to complain (Exult is great), just thought some observations might help.

There is room for improvement.

I've witnessed the waitress turn the empty cauldron into a blue-magic sauce, then place a spittoon on top of it (upper right corner). Then when she picked up the spittoon, the cauldron turned green.

I've also seen her place a spittoon on the kitchen table, then walk to the serving table, never place a plate, and then go pickup the spittoon.

Looks like a bug.

https://sourceforge.net/p/exult/bugs/2039/

Seems the plates used are not consistent either.

I'm noticing a few things in Britain as well.

With two waiters, food on the tables seems to accumulate faster than it is eaten.
Pancakes placed on the cauldron.
Both white and wooden small plates being used at the same table.
Oversized foods placed on the small plates, like a whole chicken, and set of ribs.
Oversized foods obscuring wine glasses.

Flounder and long bread also look ridiculous on these tiny plates.

If the waiter is in WAITER activity and another NPC leaves without that waiter being triggered to go back to WAITER (say, post-conversation), those leftover plates are never picked up.

I've noticed all the food ingredients put on the cauldron will stay there so they must not have the temporary flags set