How do you set up your Game?

[luvher]

Hi
I would like to know how you people set up your ACTIONS to play Bliss.
Do you make many small files from the actions that others have sent in and then select the ones you want at the time?
Or do you have a few large action files?
Do you select all your action Files for each game?

How do you keep track of the action you have used and then de-select them so that others come up next time you play Bliss?
Or do you just let the game select the action even though many repeat each time you play.

Any other tips.

What we do is select some of the 13 action files that I have. Some I have writen and some I have download from your contributions. Then after we have played bliss I try and de-select some of the actions so that others come up next time.
It works okay but there are many action that I forget or can't find.
So I was thinking I might break up each of the action files into 4 or 5 smaller files, this way there are many more files to choose from with less in them and more chances of different action coming up.
But this will be a lot of work, so I thought I would ask you first what you do
Looking forward to your input.
Thanks

[Karkhan]

I downloaded all the action files from the exchange and deleted the actions we would not normally use or I didn't like. I then re-name them into groups that work together. I have an A game and a B game and a C game at the moment. I have started creating a new set of actions that will be a stand alone by itself. Unfortunately I have found out from Don that the idea I have will not work at the moment as the game does not view actions the way I want it to. Hopefully it will soon or I can find a way around it.

My 2 cents...

[rz1988]

I also have downloaded all of the actions from the forum and have purchased dr dlight #1 and have modified or deleted the actions we don't use. I have them all active when we play which gives the most possible choices.

[AJILLKIN]

I'm like rz1988 have them all, including some of my own. However, I have set the priority on all the files with my own file being the highest. This sets the odds of an action from that file coming up. Wifey loves to see one with my initials pop up.

[luvher]

Hey great, thanks for the replies.
Do any of you get the same action coming up every time or most times you play Bliss? If so what do you do to de-select the action, and how do you remember which action it was and where it is?
Karkhan you said you made 3 files from all the ones you downloaded. Did you set the actions in any special file, ie; depending on mood or passion level or actions?

Looking forward to your replies.

[Karkhan]

No, I have not come up with a clever way to insure that all the actions I have are used in future games. This is the reason I made as many versions of the game as I could. I am not sure I am explaining this well, . Let me try it this way.

If you look in the Exchange you will see The Bomb, The Bomb II, and The Bomb III. As I likes his work I did not however like all the actions in them. I combined them all into one file. Since our games tend to last a little while it worked out so that we used a lot of those actions. However if we were to start the game over the next night with those same files we would get repeats. At this moment the game does not take in to account the actions that were used in the last game and give all the ones that were not used a higher priority. It just isn't there.

Also, just to let you all know. If you write an action that can be used for both female and male, it will most likely occur twice in your game. Once for the female and once for the male. If that same action has multiple places to land in the game, ie. Lovers Lane, Free Kiss, then it is more likely to occur even more. The game takes all the actions in the file and places them in every scenario it can. You can look under statistics to see how many actions you have for each area. If you have the same one listed a lot, then it will most likely occur a lot.

I have been attempting to change my old action files to gender specific. Every action will only occur once this way, as I am only letting them occur on one space of the board as well. It is a lot of work but this way I will never get a duplicate, I may never see certain actions but it won't be duplicated in that game. Another reason why I was making so many versions of the game.

[spongebob]

Just in case someone with experience with the game reads here -

We just purchased it and played for the first time the other day. What is the most efficient way to do lots of editing and recombining of action files? Any suggestions? I understand we can use the action editor. I'm wondering if there was some other way to read the action files (like a text editor or with a sql or other script...) and do a lot of editing at once. We are looking for ways to decrease repeats of actions. Seems like lots of them can occur in multiple situations and we want to diversify and speed up game play... We played around with the game speed settings but it seems like editing the actions / action file is what will really help. Any hints or ideas are appreciated.

Thanks.

ps sorry about the spongebob userid. Didn't expect to post, only registered to download in the exchange forum.