[ian-reeds-games] Re: Tactical Battle 1.11 dev 9
- From: Ian Reed <support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: ian-reeds-games@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2013 16:38:55 -0700
Hi everyone,
Carlos, great top 3. I've been hearing people asking for multiplayer a
lot recently.
It really is a huge feature, but I've been putting some thought into
what it would take, so we'll see.
Glad you found the email in your spam folder.
Craig, also great top 3. Team wide points are still planned, but might
not be next in line anymore. I still rmemeber that both you and Carlos
requested it the first time around so I'll keep that in mind.
Did you want your map pack placed on the map packs page? My general
rule is I only put them up if people specifically request it, so let me
know if you want it up there.
Hadi, multiplayer is a good one. Would you like to swap out one of your
top 3 for it?
Here's the link to the map packs page, it has Allan's one shot wonders
map pack as well as most of the others that have come through the list:
http://www.blindaudiogames.com/Home/MapPacks
You can also go to the blindaudiogames.com page and click on the map
pack downloads link to get to it. That way people don't have to go
through all the old emails searching for links.
Allan, great to hear about your map pack update and that things are
working correctly now.
I imagine the map where the player controls the zombies is easier than
the other, but fun to get the tables turned.
Did you end up liking the fog of war for the zombie maps? Don't ever
feel pressured to use a feature just because it exists.
Every map creator should make their maps the way they think works best.
Austen, did the issues you were seeing clear up? I'm still not able to
reproduce them.
Everyone, just a thought I had on ai_wait_until_enemy_in_sight.
When using that feature you may want to give the AI 2 more sight range
than the average player controlled unit.
This is because the individual AI unit really won't activate until it
sees an enemy itself.
So for instance if all units had 5 sight range and you had a warrior
approaching a line of kobolds.
The player could stop the warrior as soon as he sees the first kobold
and end his turn, then only that kobold would come after the warrior,
while his buddies who were right next to him, but just barely out of
sight range do nothing.
If the AI sees just a little farther then when the warrior sees the
first kobold he's already activated that kobold plus any kobold buddies
within 2 spaces of that first kobold.
I think this will work better for a lot of scenarios.
Some day we will get an ai_wait_until_action_in_sight which would make
kobolds activate if they see their buddies doing something, but that
takes more work than the already implemented flag.
Later all,
Ian Reed
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