Notes to programmers:
1. This feature uses an awful lot of copy-pasta, using "protetcion from()" as a base. While I'm learning the architecture, it's easier for me to have a dedicated single-purpose piece of code to work with, than trying to create multi-purpose code. I'm aware that this isn't a very elegant approach though, and I hope to be able to refactor additions like this into multi-purpose code once I have a better understanding of the architecture as a whole.
2. Please check the questions I'll add in my next code comments, specifically about AI integration and activated abilities / instants / sorceries.
3. I did have a crash (with the debugger complaining about stack corruption around the cd variable) during testing. I wasn't able to reproduce it though. I did have to clean the solution in-between when I updated to the primitives system, so perhaps there was this cleaning solved whatever corruption was in my files. I'm mentioning the issue in case someone has an idea on where my code might be risky (I'm still probne to making beginners mistakes).
- Card Primitives system. Check Royal Assassin in RV, 10E, M10
- Please review, is sets/primitives a good directory? Should we rename MTGCard into "CardPrint"?
- Unfortunately for now it is not possible to "override" a Primitive. A card that links to a primitive but also defines new "values" will create its own data and ignore the data in the "linked" primitive for the time being. I hope to solve that at some point...
Limitations:
- Operators for "greater than", "less than", "unequal" have not been implemented, but if a card actually needs them, you can use a preceding minus sign to negate a comparison. Example: -power=3 means "power not equal to 3", -toughness<=3 means "toughness>3".
- You can't use spaces when specifying such restrictions. Write "power<=3" instead of "power <= 3"
- You now need to use a space before the "<" and ">" commands that count the matches for lord(), foreach(), all() and aslongas(). So far we always did use spaces in front of them without actually needing to, now we need to.
- manacost restrictions don't take "X" costs into account. Example: Mistmeadow Skulkin (FUT) has protection from manacost>=3. Blaze has a converted manacost of 1, but when you cast it with an X of 2, then it actually has a converted manacost of 3 while on the stack, and Mistmeadow Skulkin would be protected from it, but currently it isn't.
Please review the code, I'll add a few remarks/questions of my own.
* Fix a bug where valid directories would be ignored and invalid ones
would be accepted for profiles and themes.
* Fix a compilation fault when compiling in debug mode.
- Loading the "awardback.jpg" file in 16bits instead of 32. This should extremely reduce the probability of crashes (issue 247)
- Added some error debug message for the test suite when a card cannot be found
Note: If you design the layout of a screen, please keep in mind that translators usually need more space than the English terms do, English is a very space-efficient language. I found that I sometimes have to resort to suboptimal translations because the better ones don't fit into the space reserved for them.
Note 2: I've heard about problems with characters taking up a different amount of screen space on Windows and the PSP, so could someone check whether the German texts are inside their boundaries on the PSP? I can only test on Windows.
Gives the user the opportunity to earn some credits for performing various tasks.
Known bugs removed, tested stability-wise, not so much game-wise.
Lots of to-dos and ideas still remaining, better balance between task difficulty and their rewards needed - please comment.
Usage:
Enter shop, open menu, select 'See available tasks'.
All tasks in the list are active, until they expire ('Days left'; day passes after each duel (won, lost or quited)).
You can finish any of the tasks and get bonus. For particular task, the bonus gets a bit smaller every day (until expiration).
-fix issue 161 (brass man can untap outside of upkeep). Use "myUpkeepOnly" keyword. Other keywords such as "myDrawOnly" of course work. Haven't implemented "opponent" yet, is it needed ?
- fix issue 168 (kudzu)
- Fix issue 162 (copy VS shroud). This fix introduces a new keyword: NotATarget() instead of Target(). (Which was the best way for me to keep some kind of backward compatibility/ not alter the code too much / fix the bug)
- fixed divergent growth (issue 243). Unfortunately the underlying issue is quite complex, and Wagic doesn't handle it very well. Basically, all "until end of turn" effects run the risk of being partially deleted before the end of the turn, leading to segfaults or memory leaks. This is because some abilities' "clone" method doesn't actually clone them entirely... The fix for divergent growth is a hack that works only for lords+mana producer combination, but I need a more "generic fix" in the long run...
- fix a memory leak with "Prevent All combat damages" ability
- Fix issue 242 (Equip can be used outside of the main phases)
- introducing "attach" keyword. Same as equip but can be used anytime. Untested
- introducing "asSorcery" keyword. Can be used the same way as "myTurnOnly" on activated abilities to restrict their usage. Untested. Other similar keywords will follow, please let me know which ones would be useful
- Fix issue 144 (Sound is either 0 or 100%), for PSP ONLY. The methods are now here for linux/windows, but only the music volume method will work currently, and it sets the volume globally. Patch by Yeshua with some cleanup by myself.
