Changes to Cavernei

[Mars]

Yes, of course. I guess my suggestion sort of falls between how to code it anyway and a replacement ability. So yeah, if I had any coding skills I would look into the problem in the way I suggested and see what could be done from there. But also, if there isn't a way to do it, splitting off an after-image would be a cool replacement ability IMO.

[Mars]

Hm, looking at this thread I guess there's still some work to do here. I just proposed in General that we include the changes discussed here with the 1.6 release. That actually looks like it would take a bit more work. It's not only the Runemaster but also the art and the code for the fighter/lord branches. On the other hand, there is art for the watcher line so that shouldn't be too much of a problem. How about it?

[Turin]

Uh... yeah, I'll definitely try to get around to it. Sorry for delaying it this long.

[Turin]

Gah. I have no idea what's wrong with my runelaying ability WML, and no idea how I can find out what the problem is (there's no real way to test segments of it)... I'm considering just giving the Runemasters one of the abilities from this page, perhaps Initiative or Blitz.

[Turin]

Long story: I bring before you a tale of woe and WML frustration. So, the basic problem was actually that variable names can't have the "-" character in them. I renamed the "list-of-runes" variable to "listofrunes" and it actually did something, though it's still not functioning correctly. Why the hell this matters, I don't know. I also had to change [remove_item] to [removeitem] - for whatever reason, there's no "_" character there, even though there is on every single other WML tag with more than one word. And it still doesn't work exactly right - there's only one available rune (make terrain act and look like a mountain - yeah, basically we just change the terrain into a mountain then change it back - if you have ideas for other easy-to-implement runes, go for it), and if the unit stays on the same hex for more than one turn, he won't lay another rune until the one currently on the hex is gone, so it disappears for a turn, then the next turn, if the unit is still on that hex, reappears. Actually it just acts kinda wonky in general. But it works, kinda. It does lay the runes at least.


Short story: NM my last post. It works, kinda.

[Mars]

Thanks for trying. I appreciate the difficulty.

[Turin]

Yeah, the ability will be included in the next version of the IE, then maybe we'll get some good feedback.

Custom terrains seems like a decent idea, people already have the have the IE installed to play IE MP games so might as well use custom terrains. I'll look into it.