CVS Snapshot for Windows

Post by **Dave** » December 4th, 2003, 3:50 pm

I have decided to try to start releasing CVS snapshots for Windows. Here is the first CVS snapshot, just install it as normal.

http://www.wesnoth.org/files/win-0.5.2-CVS-4-Dec.exe

The deal is, I provide you with CVS snapshots, you provide me with bug reports

David

yawningdog · Post by **yawningdog** » December 4th, 2003, 4:15 pm

Looks like a very good idea, as there were several windows users having trouble building Wesnoth from CVS. Also, it could make it easier to track bugs (ie: what snapshot are you using? oh, 15 December; that bug is already solved on next one).

Circon · Post by **Circon** » December 4th, 2003, 6:05 pm

Woo hoo!

But... wasn't there a map editor in the CVS?

Seriously: In answer to somebody else, the Undead first scenario is too long. Cut to 20/20/18 on Hard.

Bugs: Possible feature, but units do not get 1 exp for a battle UNLESS they already have exp for winning one earlier.
Probable feature: Now only 4 exp for winning a battle.
This was with the undead campaign, will get around to Konrad v.soon...

Post by **Dave** » December 4th, 2003, 6:13 pm

Circon wrote: But... wasn't there a map editor in the CVS?

Yes...but the map editor is not generally distributed with the Windows version. I guess I can build a version for you if you really want it, but you will have to note that it's not all that usable.

Circon wrote: Bugs: Possible feature, but units do not get 1 exp for a battle UNLESS they already have exp for winning one earlier.
Probable feature: Now only 4 exp for winning a battle.

You get experience equal to the level of the unit you're fighting. This means if you fight a level 0 unit you don't get any experience, but if you fight a level 1 unit, you should always get 1 experience.

You get 4 experience for killing a level 0 unit, and 8*level for killing any other unit.

If you see behavior other than this, please let me know, because it's a bug.

David

Circon · Post by **Circon** » December 5th, 2003, 12:56 pm

Yeah, yeah, it cleared up cos I hadn't realized that bats *and* corpses were lvl 0.
Anyway, here are my notes from playing this so far.

Maps when playing on Easy:

Elves Besieged: The Goblin Pillagers are too powerful. Net should be reduced.

Blackwater Port: Fine, although I wish Seimus would recruit more than one unit at a time.

Isle of Anduin: "Pendulum swinging" again, this time it got way too easy. Usadar recruited *4* wolf riders and then was out of gold.

Bay of Pearls: Looks to be good still. Woohoo, the trident is better!
Muff Malaals: Blargh. Far too many useless walking corpses. 4 exp for killing one, 0 for fighting them. I got a Merman Lord from zapping enough of them, though.

The Siege of Elensefar: Very nice. I moved Konrad down to the second castle early, and recruited a little from there. Good work making that usable.

The Princess: Heh, those reinforcements are a bugger, just like they're meant to be, eh? Slightly unbalanced hp though- ONE CHARGE ATTACK from a Paladin is enough to kill the princess. And a Paladin gets 2 charge attacks, even they do have 30% accuracy. This gives a 50-50 chance to kill the princess with one unit. But fail, and the reinforcements will most likely pummel you to bits that I will not mention.

Heh, next I'll try playing Easy with no recalling, only recruiting... Can I even get a lvl 3 unit?

And I would really like to see a compile with map editor.

Circon · Post by **Circon** » December 5th, 2003, 8:47 pm

BUG!

This started on Muff's Peninsula, and got really bad in the Undead Valley.

If a Merman Lord has a Storm Trident, then occasionally (like on MMP) he will fire lightning with the black background. Once (tVoU) I selected the attack and the whole game crashed, leaving me with not so much as an error message.

SO the Storm Trident seems bugged... still... for Merman Lords.

Post by **Dave** » December 5th, 2003, 10:24 pm

Circon wrote: If a Merman Lord has a Storm Trident, then occasionally (like on MMP) he will fire lightning with the black background. Once (tVoU) I selected the attack and the whole game crashed, leaving me with not so much as an error message.

Is this problem consistently reproducible? Can you provide a saved game that is immediately before it happens, with instructions for how to consistently get it to happen?

I think I may have a fix, but not sure...

David

Circon · Post by **Circon** » December 6th, 2003, 6:22 am

Yep, I've got a save file with it. It's in your mail right now.
The bug is partly reproducible- sometimes it crashes, sometimes not. But I've had it crash on me twice right there. Select Merman Lord, attack Wraith, with Storm Trident.

Asmodai · Post by **Asmodai** » December 6th, 2003, 7:57 am

Dave wrote:You get experience equal to the level of the unit you're fighting. This means if you fight a level 0 unit you don't get any experience, but if you fight a level 1 unit, you should always get 1 experience.

You get 4 experience for killing a level 0 unit, and 8*level for killing any other unit.

If you see behavior other than this, please let me know, because it's a bug.

Any thought on basing the experience point off of the difference instead of just a straight look at the level? Maybe something like:

If fighting a unit under <= your level 1 xp.
If fighting a unit > your level then 1 + difference.

This way units are rewarded more for taking on stronger opponents and strong units don't advance as much if left unchallenged. Just a thought.

yawningdog · Post by **yawningdog** » December 6th, 2003, 10:17 am

Asmodai: I think that's already taken into account with the bigger amounts of experience each level requires.