Poor little Starfish

AtomicCow · 12-30-2001, 04:33 PM

I just love my aquarium. I wouldn't even want a real one anymore. Its so realistic without any of the hassels. I am very excited that you have the Lionfish and I think the boxfish on your priority list. I saw a boxfish in an aquarium at a salsa bar and its all you can look at.
I cruised through several levels of posts here to make sure I am not repeating what has already been wished for. I think the one thing I could wish for is maybe the easiest to implement. I would like the aquarium to feel more like a persistant world. It would be nice if the starfish could be where he left off or in a different position when the screensaver comes back on again. I always wonder where he would wind up if he was given half a chance. After many hours he made it more than halfway across the glass. I hate that after all that effort he always has to go back to the lower left corner of the sand and start again. All the other fish seem so wonderfully random. The poor starfish, which was the most surprising at first has become a Sisyphus pushing the stone up the hill and then having it roll down and start the same task over and over. It breaks the illusion a bit that this is a real fish tank.
Oh well, that is my wish anyway.
Robin

feldon34 · 12-30-2001, 04:46 PM

Actually, there were a few threads about this when the Starfish first came out.

https://www.feldoncentral.com/forums...s=&threadid=29

Some day, the starfish will either remember position or have more than 1 possible starting point. Jim hasn't put much time into this as the background is being replaced so any efforts here would be wasted as they wouldn't translate directly over to the new background.

12-30-2001, 04:33 PM	#1
AtomicCow Registered Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: California Posts: 2	Poor little Starfish I just love my aquarium. I wouldn't even want a real one anymore. Its so realistic without any of the hassels. I am very excited that you have the Lionfish and I think the boxfish on your priority list. I saw a boxfish in an aquarium at a salsa bar and its all you can look at. I cruised through several levels of posts here to make sure I am not repeating what has already been wished for. I think the one thing I could wish for is maybe the easiest to implement. I would like the aquarium to feel more like a persistant world. It would be nice if the starfish could be where he left off or in a different position when the screensaver comes back on again. I always wonder where he would wind up if he was given half a chance. After many hours he made it more than halfway across the glass. I hate that after all that effort he always has to go back to the lower left corner of the sand and start again. All the other fish seem so wonderfully random. The poor starfish, which was the most surprising at first has become a Sisyphus pushing the stone up the hill and then having it roll down and start the same task over and over. It breaks the illusion a bit that this is a real fish tank. Oh well, that is my wish anyway. Robin

12-30-2001, 04:46 PM	#2
feldon34 Forum Administrator Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Rock Hill, SC Posts: 10,938	Actually, there were a few threads about this when the Starfish first came out. https://www.feldoncentral.com/forums...s=&threadid=29 Some day, the starfish will either remember position or have more than 1 possible starting point. Jim hasn't put much time into this as the background is being replaced so any efforts here would be wasted as they wouldn't translate directly over to the new background. "Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed. Everything else is public relations." - George Orwell "If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal." - Emma Goldman