I got a report from a player that seems like it might be a legitimate mistake in the design of Knight Mansion normal. He's at the end of the mansion. He didn't open the teal door near the beginning, so he has an extra teal key at the end. But no purple key to open the purple area to the left of where he's currently standing in the attached suspended game.

(Note: to use the attached suspended game, you must "trick" Midnight Mansion into accepting it by first doing Start Game, playing Knight Mansion Normal, suspending the game, and THEN dragging the attached file into the appropriate folder in Application Support / Midnight Mansion / Suspended Game Data / [Profile name] /

and replace the suspended game in there. Then start the game, and choose Yes when asked to resume your suspended game.

Or if that's too complicated, you can open up the saved game here. But regardless, there does indeed seem to be a shortage of purple keys at the end of this mansion.

I noticed that if you cheat and give yourself a purple key to go to the area to the left, there is a secret area there with another purple key. I don't get this at all, unless the designer intended the player to FIRST open the purple door to the left, find the secret area, get that purple key, and THEN open the purple door to the right, that gives you a lantern. It's all rather confusing to me to try to figure out what the designer intended, which is why I'm asking here what people think.

Clearly *something* is wrong with this mansion though. Various options:

- Change the purple door leading to the lantern to another color (red?), and change the purple key in the hidden area to the left to red instead.
- Change the left purple door to teal instead, so players that don't open the teal door at the start of the mansion can open this as a bonus at the end? (But then they might have an extra purple key when finished, if they get the one in the secret area to the left.)
- Something else entirely? Maybe add a purple key to some room, and remove it from the secret area?

This all will sound very confusing unless you open up the mansion, and do the "Reveal Map" cheat while paused, or use the editor, to study it for a bit, and THEN re-read the comments above, and then it'll all hopefully make sense. But I could definitely use some feedback as to what change people think I should make, and also, if you think Easy/Hard are affected by this?

What is this XP-bugs?? I hope it doesn't have to do with PCs?!

rose wrote on 14.07.2007 at 22:33:17:

No !!!!!

I can't remember who changed EP to XP for the coming expansion pack. What a bug!

Perhaps BBFMan is right --  maybe it is something where the player can choose the "wrong order" of doors, and not get the maximum secrets. That seems flaky to me, but I guess each mansion designer has his right to do stuff like that.