ok here goes, first, fixed a crash that would happen when ever a player would gain more then 2000 life or take more then 2000 damage...the buffer was becoming corrupted i imagine because it was too small, increasing it to 10 slots allowed players to successfully take massive amounts of damage, highest i bothered checking was about 35k gained/lost, no crash...
2nd, removed the and refactored cantcaster rule, moved it to stateEffects() and renamed stateeffects to better reflect what it will be handling,
removed sneak attack rule and moved it into stateeffects
the following ints have been converted into bool,
all the cantcasters, canputlandsintoplay is becoming a bool, the amount of lands you can play is now handled by a new varible int landsPlayerCanStillPlay (this is for my ability additional lands increase in support on perminents coming after the release)
the changes to bools were for an obvious reason, they were all ints pretending to be bools, my varibles were confusing as you would often see code like this if(cantblahblah > 0)
which to another coder might not make any sense.
these varible ints were returning 0 as false and 1 as true...changed them all to bools, same goes for putlandsinplay int, in half the places it was being used as a bool, AND it was tracking the amount, when i was coding additional land ability, this made it impossible to maintain correct amounts without damaging the rest of the code.
as a bool, controlled by stateeffects, it can now be used correctly as a bool in all cases, and the stateEffects manages the switch on it to false if you no longer have any landsPlayerCanStillPlay left.
the refactor on cantcaster was also a bug fix, it was reported to me that cantcasters were not correctly working, sometimes ai or player would still be allowed to play a card with one in play, because of the old way i had it setup somecases of bothcantcaster were reseting the cantcast to 0, basically making the check do nothing.
it is now handled in stateeffects if you have one in play, then its true, if not then false...this returns very accurate tracking of the cards instantly instead of checking as cards enter or left play.
the "both" versions now have their own bools to avoid future conflicts with the single player cantcast...
added a case for the fancy moving text, some move to library effects were incorrectly returing fetch.
2nd bug fix,
commented out a peice of code that compared if power and toughness would be cancelled out by a new counter. exsample:
1/1 is cancelled by -1/-1...this is actually extremely incorrect,
if you "put a 1/1 on a creature"
then you "put a -1/-1" on the same one. it does NOT remove the 1/1 as per MTG rules. the counters all all treated as NEW objects on a card. so a creature that had both those abilities used on it should have BOTH a 1/1 and a -1/-1 counter.
commenting out the section of code corrected this probelm.
modular creature, phantom creatures,sunburst and many many more will now correctly be able to use their counters even if they recieved "cancelling" Counters
last was just an improvement, as i got overly frustraited tonight while fighting with a deck that slaps many different types of counters on cards, i was having a very hard time telling what exactly i was about to put on a creature.
so what i did to correct this is create a much better menuText return on aacounter class.
PLEASE let me know if i missed a case where a counter is not showing correct text.
fixed a Ai related bug, taught Ai not to mill itself to death basically. played a few matches which Ai was just destroying himself with a creature that allowed him to draw cards for each(whatever) in play. Ai will be a little more careful not to kill himself by Mill, also not to draw 30 cards in a turn when it clearly cant play them.
* created three new utility functions that return a vector of matching abilities, colors and types
* migrated all activated ability impl into AllAbilities.cpp. Perhaps we could break AllAbilities up into separate impl files for manageability?
One for Activated abilities, another for triggers,etc
new ability lord...teach(whatever[whatever]) ability.
teach is a targeted lord, it takes the cards current target and lords it the ability. im aware of a tiny memleak it contains, but the leak is happening on parser lvl, so i need more eyes to look at it. teach is ideally used for equipment, and was designed to fix issue 244 taught abilities are not given to the source cards.
forced Ai to pay for sunburst correctly. it was choosing to pay with all of one type of mana. now it pays either max or 1 from max sunburst.
added a tiny double check for Ai to try and find something to use if it suddenly has mana in its pool. it is only a single check in a turn, but i notice it actually does slightly improve the usages of dark ritual and foreach mana producers. ideally i wanted it to check EVERYTIME. but i could not achieve it without putting the game in danger of looping. so once is better then none :/
fixed a bug with affinity where it was not counting duel lands, this is becuase of not setting it up correctly for lands with multiple types SORRY!
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