Altered era/ruleset (AKA "Altera", for 1.16, 1.14, 1.12 and 1.10)

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lea
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Re: Altered era/ruleset

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version 0.6.2 is published for BfW 1.10.7, 1.12.6 and 1.14.x

changes:
- desperation index (except its gold-based part) for desperate stand rule is now shown in unit count indicator (located in the middle of top panel for most UI themes)
- added blind attack special to ranged attacks of all valon horsemen with flails and valon trotter, increased damage for valon trotter's ranged attack
- removed smiting attack special from melee attack of valon echelon
- added swiping attack special to all bomb-like attacks of all gnome healers and baloons
- renamed gnome toolwar to gnome vanguard
- changed fey messiah's sprite and attack animation to make his sword's blade narrower visually
- changed attack icons for:
great sword (fey messiah's attack)
flame bow (fey minstrel's attack)
solar burst (fey soleil's attack)
trample (valon trotter's attack)
entwine, tangling vines, barbed vines (fey dryad's attacks)
Attachments
Altered 0.6.2 (core).zip
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Altered 0.6.2 (images of all units).zip
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Altered 0.6.2 (portraits for demons and fey).zip
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Altered 0.6.2 (portraits for gnomes and thanats and lamias).zip
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Altered 0.6.2 (portraits for valons and saurs).zip
(7.25 MiB) Downloaded 3 times
Last edited by lea on February 7th, 2024, 12:40 pm, edited 2 times in total.
author of: Altered Era/Ruleset (AKA "Altera"), latest version is on add-ons servers for BfW 1.16 and 1.14, latest version also still supports BfW 1.12 and 1.10, 1.10 server is stuck with older buggy version)
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Re: Altered era/ruleset

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version 0.6.3 is published for BfW 1.10.7, 1.12.6 and 1.14.x

changes:
- added custom n and ne/nw animations for halberd attacks (both slashing and impaling) of demon moderator and arbitrator
- added new random trait: lucky (for each incoming strike there is a chance to receive half damage, chance is 10% plus 5% per adjacent enemy unit)
- added descriptive tooltips for all "altered" traits
- fixed: feinting attack special used to disable itself when it should have make chance to hit equal to maximum possible value of 90%
- changed attack special for melee attack of fey messiah to threatening (increased chance to hit when multiple enemies are adjacent)
- reduced number of strikes for non-swarming attacks of fey dryad to 2 and increased their damage per strike to keep total damage same as before
Attachments
Altered 0.6.3 (core).zip
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Altered 0.6.3 (images of all units).zip
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Altered 0.6.3 (portraits for demons and fey).zip
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Altered 0.6.3 (portraits for gnomes and thanats and lamias).zip
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Altered 0.6.3 (portraits for valons and saurs).zip
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Last edited by lea on February 7th, 2024, 12:48 pm, edited 3 times in total.
author of: Altered Era/Ruleset (AKA "Altera"), latest version is on add-ons servers for BfW 1.16 and 1.14, latest version also still supports BfW 1.12 and 1.10, 1.10 server is stuck with older buggy version)
Major_Swampy
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Re: Altered era/ruleset

Post by Major_Swampy »

lea wrote: March 8th, 2020, 1:41 pm version 0.6.3 is published for BfW 1.10.7, 1.12.6 ....
Heh, wouldn't those BfW version is no longer supported?
Sorry for my english, I'm not english native.
Regards, Swampy.

(Already mastered the LotI as 4 times until the end, so wanna me to play it again!?)
lea
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Re: Altered era/ruleset

Post by lea »

DukeSwampy wrote: March 8th, 2020, 2:16 pm
lea wrote: March 8th, 2020, 1:41 pm version 0.6.3 is published for BfW 1.10.7, 1.12.6 ....
Heh, wouldn't those BfW version is no longer supported?
depends on what you mean when you say "supported" )
new versions are released only in 1.14.x branch but 1.10 and 1.12 addon servers are still open for uploads: https://addons.wesnoth.org/
author of: Altered Era/Ruleset (AKA "Altera"), latest version is on add-ons servers for BfW 1.16 and 1.14, latest version also still supports BfW 1.12 and 1.10, 1.10 server is stuck with older buggy version)
lea
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Re: Altered era/ruleset

Post by lea »

version 0.6.4 is published for BfW 1.10.7, 1.12.6 and 1.14.x

changes:
- added new random trait: precise (reduces chance to miss by 1/5 for all attacks)
- added reckless attack special to fey nymph's striking beauty attack
- renamed blind attack special to unreliable
- renamed daring random trait to brave
- removed custom tooltips from some "altered" random traits to avoid duplication with automatically generated tooltips
- recolored thanat cadaver and shortened idle animation of thanat shambler
Attachments
Altered 0.6.4 (core).zip
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Altered 0.6.4 (images of all units).zip
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Altered 0.6.4 (portraits for demons and fey).zip
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Altered 0.6.4 (portraits for gnomes and thanats and lamias).zip
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Altered 0.6.4 (portraits for valons and saurs).zip
(7.25 MiB) Downloaded 3 times
Last edited by lea on February 7th, 2024, 12:57 pm, edited 3 times in total.
author of: Altered Era/Ruleset (AKA "Altera"), latest version is on add-ons servers for BfW 1.16 and 1.14, latest version also still supports BfW 1.12 and 1.10, 1.10 server is stuck with older buggy version)
lea
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Re: Altered era/ruleset

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version 0.6.5 is published for BfW 1.10.7, 1.12.6 and 1.14.x

WARNING: games saved with earlier versions of altered era may not work correctly with this version because ids of some abilities were changed to avoid a weird issue in WML coding, also internal format of some .cfg files was changed

changes:
- added icons to show which units of current side are going to be healed at the start of next turn or affected by tactician ability (may be somewhat slow when units with tactician or healing abilities are involved, can be disabled from 'Enable/Disable Notifications' option in right-cick menu)
- mechanism for removing villages adjacent to other villages or castles is moved from "Altered" random map generators to new option of altered era (always enabled for BfW 1.10.7, disabled by default for later versions of BfW) and optimized to work somewhat faster
- tweaked "Altered" random map generators to reduce amount of tundra (frozen forest) terrain, especially on smaller maps
- added club attacks to saurs with spears and shields
- changed slam attack of saur wyverns and related units to fangs attack (same except with pierce damage instead of impact)
- renamed saur assegai to saur incid
Attachments
Altered 0.6.5 (core).zip
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Altered 0.6.5 (images of all units).zip
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Altered 0.6.5 (portraits for demons and fey).zip
(5.76 MiB) Downloaded 3 times
Altered 0.6.5 (portraits for gnomes and thanats and lamias).zip
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Altered 0.6.5 (portraits for valons and saurs).zip
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Last edited by lea on February 7th, 2024, 1:01 pm, edited 2 times in total.
author of: Altered Era/Ruleset (AKA "Altera"), latest version is on add-ons servers for BfW 1.16 and 1.14, latest version also still supports BfW 1.12 and 1.10, 1.10 server is stuck with older buggy version)
lea
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Re: Altered era/ruleset

Post by lea »

version 0.6.6 is published for BfW 1.12.6 and 1.14.x

add-on servers for BfW 1.10.7 are now closed for uploads but "Altered era/ruleset" still supports BfW 1.10.7 - download it from 1.12.6 or 1.14.x add-on server and manually copy it to 1.10's 'add-ons' folder

changes:
- added unit upkeep modes: level 2 and level 3 units can spend their turn to switch to reduced upkeep or back to full upkeep, units with reduced upkeep have penalties to damage of all their attacks and effects of their abilities to heal adjacent units (if they have such abilites)
- right-click menu item to dismiss unit and info about it are moved to "Special Unit Actions" submenu of right-click menu, this submenu also contains options to change unit's upkeep mode and info about upkeep modes
- fixed: level/leader icons near units used to cause lua error on turn start in some cases
- fixed: when villages are removed (whether because they are in corners or adjacent to castles or other villages) their names (labels) are now also removed
- added options to disable trait icons and level/leader icons near units from 'Enable/Disable Notifications' option in right-cick menu (independently for each player)
- added ability names to descriptions (and therefore tooltips) of all abilities (side effect: ability names are now duplicated in respective help topics), added alternative tooltips for inactive heals and fortify abilites, renamed fortify abiliity to fortifies and infiltrator ability to infiltrates
- changed some descriptions and menu item names for altered rules
Attachments
Altered 0.6.6 (core).zip
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Altered 0.6.6 (images of all units).zip
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Altered 0.6.6 (portraits for demons and fey).zip
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Altered 0.6.6 (portraits for gnomes and thanats and lamias).zip
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Altered 0.6.6 (portraits for valons and saurs).zip
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Last edited by lea on February 7th, 2024, 1:04 pm, edited 2 times in total.
author of: Altered Era/Ruleset (AKA "Altera"), latest version is on add-ons servers for BfW 1.16 and 1.14, latest version also still supports BfW 1.12 and 1.10, 1.10 server is stuck with older buggy version)
lea
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Re: Altered era/ruleset

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hotfix version 0.6.6a is published for Wesnoth 1.14.x (only)

this version fixes following bugs:
- message about gold being lost because of "corruption" rule was shown at the start of each side's turn whenever at least one side had such gold loss
- error message mentioning unstore_unit tag was shown on first turn when AI opponents are present

this hotfix is not published for Wesnoth 1.12.6 because in this version fix for first bug does not work (yet to find out why) and second bug is not present (not visible for end users)

WARNING: version of Altered era/ruleset which is available for Wesnoth 1.10.7 (and stuck without updates) also contains these bugs, please use version from wesnoth 1.14.x add-on server, it is tested on and fully compatible with Wesnoth 1.10.7
author of: Altered Era/Ruleset (AKA "Altera"), latest version is on add-ons servers for BfW 1.16 and 1.14, latest version also still supports BfW 1.12 and 1.10, 1.10 server is stuck with older buggy version)
lea
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Re: Altered era/ruleset

Post by lea »

hotfix version 0.6.6a is published for Wesnoth 1.12.x

this version disables "Corruption" Altered rule as a workaround for this bug:
- message about gold being lost because of "corruption" rule was shown at the start of each side's turn whenever at least one side had such gold loss
author of: Altered Era/Ruleset (AKA "Altera"), latest version is on add-ons servers for BfW 1.16 and 1.14, latest version also still supports BfW 1.12 and 1.10, 1.10 server is stuck with older buggy version)
lea
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Re: Altered era/ruleset

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version 0.7.0 is published for BfW 1.12.6 and 1.14.x

add-on servers for BfW 1.10.7 are now closed for uploads but "Altered era/ruleset" still supports BfW 1.10.7 - download it from 1.12.6 or 1.14.x add-on server and manually copy it to 1.10's 'add-ons' folder

changes:
- added seventh "Altered" race/faction - lamias (called nagas in mainline), almost all units of this race have unconventional movetype (speed 8, but movement over any terrain except sand, swamp and water costs more than 1 move point), also about half of lamia units have 'infiltrates' ability
- removed all remaining mainline factions
- fixed: poisoning sound was missing in some animations for attacks with respective attack special
- added attack special names to descriptions (and therefore tooltips) of all attack specials (side effect: attack special names are now duplicated in respective help topics), added alternative tooltips for inactive heliacal, nocturnal, liminal and braceable abilites
- icons on units for healing and tactician effects are now smaller (larger icons can be re-enabled by editing path to respective image files in FILE_PATH_PREFIX_BADGES_FOR_AURA_EFFECTS define near beginning of unit-badges-aura.cfg file)
- added black outlines to all trait icons near units
- in altered UI theme gold indicator is moved to be after (to the right of) income indicator
- fixed: added hotkeys for 'About other Altered Rules' and 'List Recently Lost Villages' right-click menu options
Attachments
Altered 0.7.0 (core).zip
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Altered 0.7.0 (images of all units).zip
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Altered 0.7.0 (portraits for demons and fey).zip
(5.76 MiB) Downloaded 3 times
Altered 0.7.0 (portraits for gnomes and thanats and lamias).zip
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Altered 0.7.0 (portraits for valons and saurs).zip
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Last edited by lea on February 7th, 2024, 1:10 pm, edited 2 times in total.
author of: Altered Era/Ruleset (AKA "Altera"), latest version is on add-ons servers for BfW 1.16 and 1.14, latest version also still supports BfW 1.12 and 1.10, 1.10 server is stuck with older buggy version)
lea
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Re: Altered era/ruleset

Post by lea »

hotfix version 0.7.0a is published for Wesnoth 1.14.x and 1.12.6

this version fixes following bugs:
- dismiss action complained that leader unit cannot be dismissed when dismissing should have been allowed
- index for desperate stand shown in UI after unit count gave away opponents' indexes during their turns
- some parts of desperate stand rule checked era option for corruption rule and therefore were disabled when corruption rule was disabled in era options
author of: Altered Era/Ruleset (AKA "Altera"), latest version is on add-ons servers for BfW 1.16 and 1.14, latest version also still supports BfW 1.12 and 1.10, 1.10 server is stuck with older buggy version)
lea
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Re: Altered era/ruleset

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version 0.7.1 is published for BfW 1.12.6 and 1.14.x

add-on servers for BfW 1.10.7 are now closed for uploads but "Altered era/ruleset" still supports BfW 1.10.7 - download it from 1.12.6 or 1.14.x add-on server and manually copy it to 1.10's 'add-ons' folder

changes:
- added "sustained march" rule: each unit that has any move points remaining will get 1 extra move point on its next turn, if this rule is enabled then rest-healing is animated separately from healing that comes from other sources because this rule breaks/disables built-in rest-healing functionality and adds its replacement in WML
- fixed: Altered Vast Random map generator added excessive amounts of water after opening map settings, now its maps have larger and less nuanced terrain features, old version is renamed to "Altered Ward Random map" and added warning about this issue to description
- fixed: for Wesnoth 1.14.x name of ledaer/side was missing in messages produced by "benevolent lend", "trade nexus" and "storage expenses" rules
- special unit actions (dismissing to recall list and changing unit upkeep modes) are now blocked for poisoned units and units that were cured from poison during current turn
- reduced ad-hoc recruit cost of saur creeper from 15 to 14 making it same as for other units with regular recruit cost of 12
- changed demon crawler's appearance and animation to make it look less like winged saurian and made its wings smaller
- slightly tweaked sound of geyser attack of fey nymph
Attachments
Altered 0.7.1 (core).zip
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Altered 0.7.1 (images of all units).zip
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Altered 0.7.1 (portraits for demons and fey).zip
(5.76 MiB) Downloaded 3 times
Altered 0.7.1 (portraits for gnomes and thanats and lamias).zip
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Altered 0.7.1 (portraits for valons and saurs).zip
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Altered 0.7.1 (portraits for naiads and unaffiliated units).zip
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Last edited by lea on February 7th, 2024, 1:27 pm, edited 2 times in total.
author of: Altered Era/Ruleset (AKA "Altera"), latest version is on add-ons servers for BfW 1.16 and 1.14, latest version also still supports BfW 1.12 and 1.10, 1.10 server is stuck with older buggy version)
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Atreides
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Re: Altered era/ruleset

Post by Atreides »

Just downloaded this for 1.12 as I noticed it was new there. I've played a few turns so far and I quite like it. Now I guess I'll have to get it for 1.14.15 too.
lea
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Re: Altered era/ruleset

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Atreides wrote: March 7th, 2021, 8:08 pm Just downloaded this for 1.12 as I noticed it was new there. I've played a few turns so far and I quite like it. Now I guess I'll have to get it for 1.14.15 too.
if you want to use "Corruption" rule then 1.14.x or 1.10.7 is indeed required - I could not find a way to make it work for Wesnoth 1.12
apart from that altered era for 1.12 is exactly same as for 1.14
author of: Altered Era/Ruleset (AKA "Altera"), latest version is on add-ons servers for BfW 1.16 and 1.14, latest version also still supports BfW 1.12 and 1.10, 1.10 server is stuck with older buggy version)
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Re: Altered era/ruleset

Post by Atreides »

Hi, looking through the 1.12.6 log after playing I found some interesting errors. Quite a few mislinked (due to typos in wml) sound/image files. Stuff like arcane bolt and thrown axes. Silly stuff like strike-arcane instead of strike/arcane :-) Not sure if you fixed them for 1.14 but I guess since 10/12/14 are all provided for they'd be the same?

As for the game I finally read all the help files and was astounded to realize I'd not been resurrecting (OMG how is that spelled ROTFL) units via recall. Nice rule, very MUD like. I probably overdid it once I knew about it. <grin>
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