Wesnoth Forum Era

[monochromatic]

Lead Developer - artisticdude
Artistic Director - Zerovirus
Mechanical Engineers - Captain_Wrathbow & monochromatic

Yes, I totally jacked off artistic's orig. post.

1.1.0 is currently in progress. Be patient, and anticipate the next release of WFE!

Signups are closed:

[MAJOR EDIT] Announcing:

Sign-Ups for the 2nd faction commence!

So far, the unit tree has not been finalized, so for now, please just sign-up with your name and tell us if you are interested. More information to come.
When signing up, do not tell us what kind of unit you want to be. For now, just let us know of your interest and chillax. We'll post the unit tree shortly and the spots to fill in will be first come first served. Once the max is filled, signups will close again.

Regards.
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[EDIT] For those of you who signed up, refer here for the available unit chart!
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Quite out-of-date:

[EDIT] As artisticdude and Captain_Wrathbow are currently on wesbreak, I [monochromatic/elvish_sovereign] have taken the liberty to update this post for the current situation, as we are well past the sign-up stage now. Please look at this post and tell me what you think! Now looking ahead..

TWFFE 1.0.2 was released for 1.9.4+ a while ago now, and now since I have time I've been looking to squash more bugs, in addition doing a complete re-write of the era's WML. The reasons: wmllint is having problems with this era. This post shows (to our surprise) that wmllint crashes when ran. So instead of hunting for the bugs, I've decided to do a clean re-write. Also, the implementation of lua. As outlined in this post I plan to make some alterations to the era. If it is not widely accepted as the default, it will be a side version. And lua can make alterations to the UI (such as new dialogs!) which I plan to take to my advantage. And finally, the three of us have decided to make a '2nd' faction over the summer (when there is no school), and I'd rather re-write and re-organize it now before it becomes a mess.

Yeah.. I've basically announced the existence of the plan for the 2nd faction. After discussing with artisticdude and Captain_Wrathbow, we decided since there have been a large demand for a second faction, we'll do it! In that case, as we all learned from the first signup process, we've decided to add 2 new rules:
1. If you decide to sign up, please attach a .zip file of the .cfg plus the corresponding utils with all the images and animations. It will make things a lot easier than hunting down the unit. In other words, requests like "I want to be the x unit from the x era will be ignored.
2. Rather than balancing after the signup, we'll have some preset stereotype units for users to fill in. In a sense we're balancing before the signup. This will make the balancing process much more painless and easy. We don't want a developer breaking down midway again.

Signups are planned to start in early to mid April, and I'll monitor over it until artisticdude and Captain_Wrathbow can get back from their respective wesbreaks. So if you missed the first one and are looking to put yourself into wesnoth, this is your chance! Watch for my post commencing the signup process.

Regards.
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Original Post by artisticdude:

I've decided to try this idea to see how it turns out. This will be a faction composed solely of Wesnoth forum members who sign up for the project (see below). The advancement tree will work like this: registered users (those with no title) will be lvl 1, forum regulars and contributors will be lvl 2, and moderators/administrators will be lvl 3. In the likely event that the number of registered users exceeds the necessary number of titled-member sign-ups, advancement will be based on several factors including post count, join date, and current forum activity.

How to Sign Up
Post a message stating that you are signing up to participate in the faction and post the sprite (and animation(s) if possible) that you would like to have represent you in the era. Preferably a custom sprite, but any sprite will do. Those users with sprites as avatars may choose to use their avatars as their TWFF sprites. But before signing up, please read the TWFF guidelines below.


Guidelines for TWFF

1. When signing up, do not request that you receive certain abilities/attacks/number of hitpoints, or that you are a certain level, without a realistic reason for doing so (the size or mainline level of your unit is not an accepted argument). If you have a serious reason for requesting a certain feature (for example: your sprite has a net and you think your unit should have the entangle ability), then you are welcome to post that in your sign-up post. Please note that units can have at most 2 types of attacks (usually 1 ranged and 1 melee), so adding weapons to your sprites will not affect how many different attacks your unit receives.

2. Levels will be decided based on the rank of the users. Hence registered members will be lvl 1, forum regulars will be lvl 2, etc. Some exceptions may be made in certain cases, but that is up to the TWFF creators/maintainers.

3. This work, like any others, is subject to the creators' and maintainers' personal preferences. You may send one of the faction's developers (see the list below) a PM requesting certain changes be made to your unit, but be certain you have a good reason for your request, and please do not clutter this thread with such requests. Once the sign-up is complete and the faction is uploaded to the server, a new thread will be opened for the purpose of balancing.

4. Signup is complete whenever the developers of the faction feel they have enough units to create an era (probably around 25-30). When this number is reached one of the developers will post a message in this thread stating that sign-up is finished. Any sign-up posts following that will either be ignored or will cause one of the developers to request the locking of this thread.

5. Please remember that the purpose of this project is to have fun creating a fun add-on that people can enjoy, not a competition to see who is the most powerful unit or who has the most hitpoints.

Thank you for your cooperation.

List of TWFF Sign-ups
1. Wesfreak
2. zookeeper
3. PsychoticKittens
4. Zerovirus
5. Captain_Wrathbow
6. boru
7. TheBladeRoden
8. tapik
9. someone
10. Lightfighter
11. Hulavuta
12. Sapient
13. Golbeeze
14. inferno8
15. maramros
16. Elvish_Hunter
17. Gremlin_Tracker
18. monochromatic
19. Deusite
20. Pentarctagon
21. sur.nhm
22. Aura
23. Araja
24. Alarantalara
25. Dixie
26. Qazerowl
27. PeterPorty
28. IPS
29. ParadiseCity
30. artisticdude

[monochromatic]

(EDIT: The post above used to be artisticdude. I'm not talking to myself )

Well, sure. You should make me an epic Elvish Marshal lvl 5 sprite. Use that. Yes I am joking.

Haha, using the Elvish Marshal from mainline (like my avatar) should be fine. But that as a lvl 1 unit....

I should have leadership, no? But then again, who would I lead if I had lvl 1 leadership? Suggestion: give me the inspires ability? I'm a sovereign after all.

EDIT: Hey actually can you use the 1.0 Elvish Marshal Sprite? I'll attach it if you need it once I get to my computer.

[Golbeeze]

Count me in.

I'd like to be the Red Ulfserker from Era of Magic by Inferno8, but if I can't be that for some reason then I'd go with the default ulfserker. I have attached the sprites and the unit file for the red ulf.

Edit: @artisticdude: Could you fix my name on the list, please? You accidentally spelled it with an "r"
Edit: thanks!

[artisticdude]

@artisticdude: Could you fix my name on the list, please? You accidentally spelled it with an "r"

Whoops, sorry about that. I subconsciously spell your username that way in my mind, and it slipped into my writing this time. Fixed.

[Hulavuta]

I'd like to sign up too. Also, if you haven't guessed, here will be my sprites:


They're basically the Skirmisher sprites from Pre-1.2.

[artisticdude]

Also, if you haven't guessed, here will be my sprites:


They're basically the Skirmisher sprites from Pre-1.2.

Hehe, I saw that coming.

You're in.

[PeterPorty]

Oh, oh, I wanna be in....Can I?
My sprite is something like a fire dark cavalier.... It's a frankie, hape they are allowed... Well, anyway, here it is.

FireCavalierPeterPorty.xcf

I know, it sucks.... yeah.

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Also, I guess it should probably have a blade melee attack and a fire melee or ranged, either way... I think it should also have good movility, it's on a horse.... But that's all up to you.

[Dixie]

Heh, I guess you could add me too, why not? I'm probably not as ancient or renown as others, but, oh well

So, I'll volunteer myself as a pirate (Since I like pirates and am working on the Pirates vs ninjas faction):

Wolf, from Archaic Era's South Sea faction

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As for attacks and stats... I dunno, either make me some basic efficient sword-wielding melee unit, maybe with some good water mobility... or whatever

Btw, I thought maybe the spare basic forum users (if there are too many) could be lv0s?
And I thought maybe Golbeeze could have some kind of self-evolving unit through amlas, since he's the creator of Evolving Era? Your call, either ways.

[artisticdude]

In, and in. Thanks for your suggestions as to the movement/attacks/etc. guys, that's the kind of suggestions I'm looking for (alias suggestions based on the sprite and its usage in other add-ons/mainline, not personal preference).

[Elvish_Hunter]

Ok artisticdude, count me in. Obviously, I will be an Elvish Hunter from IftU To make your work simpler, I attached the sprites and the cfg in the zip file.

[someone]

I'll try it out. I would like to use my avatar.
(PS: I would prefer to be a quick unit with good defenses, like the footpads.)

[artisticdude]

Cool.

Okay, small update. Captain_Wrathbow and I have been working on the technical aspects of the era (making sure all images appear, the data paths are correct, etc.), and everything works in that department. Balancing will come after we have enough people signed up to create a decent faction, with each unit having at least one level up (although three would certainly be preferable, so we're hoping we can reach that goal).

[boru]

Sounds like fun .. my unit is the Thundergobo, as featured in my UMC campaign.

A Thundergobo is basically a goblin who happened to get his hands on a thunderstick. He has the "Loose Cannon" trait, so he has a 30% chance of misfiring and shooting himself whenever he attacks. And he's also "Swamp Savvy" which gives him slightly better speed and defense in swamp hexes. No custom art (yet), I'm just using the standard goblin spearman sprite for now. See attached WML.

EDIT: Updated 6/19, with frankenart from Elvish_Hunter.
EDIT: Updated 6/21, really minor stuff you probably wouldn't even notice.

[tapik]

Long time ago I've promised myself to make an avatar based on my favorite animated hero - Tap - from the Tip&Tap tales (his copyrighted picture you can find here: http://www.buchtovi.cz/tap.png). Now I have another good reason
I'd like to sign up to this funny faction as a funny dog (may be lvl zero). which can be upgraded to any wolf-based unit.

[zookeeper]

Can we have a WML Wizard with some really outlandish special ability? I'm not yet sure what that would be, but I'll try to think of something wild yet not grossly unbalanced.