with this change, currentmana is now what it could make and if anything is in the pool then add whats in the pool as potential mana., if it could potentially make mana then THIS is its currentpool. as getpotentialMana already handles the rest.
i originally added the manapool at the end of potential as my first attempt to stop this behavior, but this either/or if statement really got in the way of producing the result i wanted, which is, if
Ai has a 3 swamps, and a dark ritual, and it cast darkritual.
in hand Ai has a 5 black drop.
in OLD set up Ai would see it has 3 mana, then it would see it had 2 mana from the untapped swamps. it would pass the phase thinking that it could not cast the creature.
NOW ai looks for how much it has in mana, it see 3 swamps, it cast dark ritual, it now see what it can create on the next call to findcards, it see 2 swamps + 3 mana in pool, it cast the 5 drop creature.
mind you that this does not fix Ai mindlessly casting dark ritual as we have no current system to tell AI "hey dont cast that card now its useless to do so" like the fancy system to tell it what abilities it should use on cards :) *maybe someday*
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.
this also fixes the spamming of Abilities like Ai atempting to untap something more then once, or Ai uses regenerate ability multiple times on the same creature.
there will be no noticible difference in Ai game play except now it actually doesnt do the above mentioned bugs.
- Fix a bug where AI would not check for the NULL status of some variables before calling functions on them. This would cause crashes that could seem random ingame. Possibly fixes issue 541
added new mana display option "No Glitter" acciddently(?) lost "both" options somehow.
the new "no glitter mana display is basically "eye candy without particle effects" on PC created 2000 mana...no FPS drop...on PSP created an EXTREMELY large amount of mana before i noticed an FPS drop of any kind, this is dramatically better then
what was in previous rev, create 20 mana and crash.
if someone could figure out how i manage to lose the "Both" option, please explain to me why it wasnt showing up, i spent 2 hours trying to get it back.
both "optimize starting hand" and "Unlock all Ai Decks" appear in options under the option to "enable cheats"
optimize gives you decent starting hands, and Unlock all Ai decks is basically just a bypass options for the unlock deck mode varible wololo added.
tweaked abilitygranting Eff in Ai lessons to be divided by the number of cards in hand, this will mean Ai will tend to focus on using mana to cast spells instead of using them to grant abilities, until theres only 1 or less cards in hand, at this point it will go all out. there is a splash of randomness in Ai so it will still often do whatever it freaking wants lol, you should notice a proformence increase from Ai in this aspect. no more giving unblockable to a creature in 2nd main.
please note, one of the recent previous revs broke cheat mode "unlock cards" in deck editor, i filed a bug report. its a probelm i was not able to fix myself so there is no fix included in this rev....i came across the bug while testing cheat mode stuff.
- Added AI Decks unlock system. Please update your graphics folder, and crossing fingers that Ilya B. is still around as I don't have the correct fonts.
with this change please try playing a few matchs against vanguards chosen and wraith feast, my 2 most favorate decks to fight now. youre in for a treat :)
keep in mind that even tho ive taught Ai Foreach in a somewhat crude manner it still does not understand how much mana it can gain from a foreach manaproducer, and this does not make it suddenly use dark ritual correctly. however this change was dramatic enough that i wanted it in for 14.1
this is also still under massive play testing, however no issues were found so far with it as it is presented here.
- had some problems compiling for the PSP. I assume I was the only one, please let me know if the "include JLogger" lines are not needed (they were needed for me)
- Fix a memory leak when playing in "random deck" mode
- Prevent the AI from playing cards with a cost it cannot understand (ExtraCosts with a target).
- Added a possibility to put a file "Res.txt" instead of the folder "Res". The file Res.txt is a simple 1 line text file, telling where to find the Res folder, terminated by "/". For example: "../../wagic_res".
This addresses issue 428 . This could also help us in the future, to develop mods.
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!
this fixes a bug(?) that had high priority and maintains same effect as before. removed all traces of the "bugged(?) hint" from CardPrimitive.
Issue: 498
Also fixed the project includes so that we don't need to always use the indirect include path, ie:
#include "../include/foo.h" -> #include "foo.h"
I'm don't know much about make files - if I busted the linux build, mea culpa, but I think we're okay on that front too. For future reference, here's the most straightforward link on the topic of adding pch support to make files:
http://www.mercs-eng.com/~hulud/index.php?2008/06/13/6-writing-a-good-makefile-for-a-c-project
this is by no means absolutely perfect, i like it tho, and makes for some real good times with level up deck built with equips.
you will notice i added a level=number...to the level up creatures, this has no effect on players, this is just a small hint to the Ai as to when it should stop investing mana in that creature. the chances are a little over half that ai will want to level a creature, increased ever so slightly with each level up.
for equipment, the Ai will now want to equip its best Creature(determined by power+toughness+convertedcost+how many abilities it has) and will want to equip these "better" cards atleast 2 times before it is reduced. same system for prevent damage, it will want to save its "better creature" more then a 1/1 token.
for both tho i added slight bonuses...
to equip, there is a higher chance that the ai will want to target a white creature, with an extra bonus if the creature is a 1/1 and nontoken. this is to encourage Ai to equip in white weenie decks
in prevent, there is a slight bonus if the creature is a 1/1 and the blocker/blockee has a power of 1.
currently prevent damage treated this way is not coded for direct damage spell, sorry ! but for combat you will notice ai taking a stand and fighting back hard.
modified player status to recognize that test suite has been activated. This is to allow deactivation of "phase skip automation" game setting during test suite.
TODO: fix "Phase Skip Automation" such that if turned on the test suite does not break. This fix should be considered temporary
- fix for issue 348
- Fix a bug when going out of the deck editor then back to it again would show an incorrect color icon instead of nothing
- Fix a bug where the AI tries to play a spell with a target instead of just checking if it can play it. (visually, this showed as the AI tapping mana, then "freezing" for a few seconds with some cards grayed out on the battlefield)
* Fixes for compilation on 64-bit architectures :
string position-returning functions return size_t, not uint.
Fix that.
* Fixes warnings with new gcc about non-fixed string AND no arguments.
NOTE : 64-bit architectures still do not compile. There are 2 different places
where printf is used with a specifier that is not large enough on 64-bit because
size_t is now a ulong and not a uint. The solution on GNU systems is the %zu
specifier, but as I'm not sure it is supported on windows I don't want to
introduce a huge hard-to-notice bug, so I'll do it at a time when I got a
windowser to back me up.
- IMPORTANT: Legendary is not an ability anymore, creating cards with super types should be much more natural. You can now say "type=Snow Land", and stuff like that. No backward compatibility!!!
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).
- Adding cycling. Check Akroma's vengeance in ONS for an example. Note that this uses autohand instead of auto, this is important! You can also use autograveyard.
- All "auto" activated abilities should work with autohand, so this is not only for cycling, but could be used for other abilities as well. For example autohand={3}:cycling can also be written autohand={3}{S}:Draw:1
