New code for Paralyze uses "teach(...)":
[card]
name=Paralyze
target=creature
auto=tap
auto=doesnotuntap
auto=teach(creature) {4}:untap myUpkeepOnly
text=Enchant creature -- When Paralyze enters the battlefield, tap enchanted creature. -- Enchanted creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step. -- At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, that player may pay {4}. If he or she does, untap the creature.
mana={B}
type=Enchantment
subtype=Aura
[/card]
it strings exactly like normal counters did, except now after the name you can add yet another "," and a number or word varible...if you will not have a name it is still required that you add the extra comma, as it is a seperator for the parser. so clock works swarm would be counter(1/0,1,,4)...no matter what, this ability will do nothing if the amount of the target counter is already higher then the max allowed, in this case 4...other effects can give the creature more counters...however..this ability will resolve to nothing if youve exceeded the limit. until you are under the amount again.
as it removed ais ability to momir...protip in MTG youre not allowed to interrupt your own abilities...the way momir is working now, it select an action that doesnt pass priority instead it instantly searchs for a momir ability...which is wrong...
the difference between vainshing and fading is...
fading sac triggers the NEXT time you try to remove a fade counter but cant, vanishing sac triggers WHEN you remove the last counter.
- Added method to build a card collection independently of the GUI to ease my unitary test application
- Added part of some network GUI I'm working on, it's #ifdef out, I'm only committing this part to ease later merges
- Added the beginning of a serialization code of the Player and related classes used for network support
- various other minor cleanup
general tip on getting ai to use an ability on a card.
titan forge for exsample
[card]
name=Titan Forge
auto={3}{T}:counter(0/0,1,Charge)
auto={T}{C(0/0,-3,Charge)}:token(Golem,Artifact Creature Golem,9/9)
text={3},{T}: Put a charge counter on Titan Forge. -- {T}, Remove three charge counters from Titan Forge: Put a 9/9 colorless Golem artifact creature token onto the
battlefield.
mana={3}
type=Artifact
[/card]
with the counter ability above the counter cost ability, ai will rarely ever use the titan forge to make a token.
however if you change the order around, ai will see the token ability first...then if it can afford it then it will make a token.
reason for this change is that it becames WAY to hard to player decks which contained mostly artifacts to share the feild, give 9 cards half the screen to display just didnt seem like a good choice compared to the creatures horizontal stack which can display almost 200 cards in the same screen width.
- added some cache for function getCardByName. On my machine, this divides the running time of the test suite by almost 2 (now runs in 12 minutes instead of 21)
* added additional meta data for decks when saving them back to file.
- decks saved this way now are split into three regions: creatures, spells and lands. It's more for a visual sorting if a
player wanted to look at the deck outside of the game. It does not impact the deck loading negatively at all. It may
increase performance in cases where the deck was previously defined using the canonical names of the cards as the numeric ids
reduce the work done when looking up the cards by name.
* modified ManaCost toString method.
* added toString method for ManaCostHybrid ( possibly make ManaCostHybrid a subclass of ManaCost)
* added additional operator overloading for ManaCost for printing to cover ManaCost when it's a pointer as well as a copy
( TODO: might want to check if making usage of ManaCost as a copy as opposed to a ptr is really necessary in most cases. )
* added alternate version of "trim" to handle trimming temporary strings as returned by things like ostringstream.str().
- This was necessary since the PSP compiler doesn't do the necessary adjustments for those types of calls.
