Story of the Slimes

[Ceres]

Useful link which helps you finding the problematic part in your code.
And be careful with using special characters in ids or user_team_names.

[Great_Mage_Atari]

Good eye. I fixed it and am testing now. I did not modify any core units.

[Great_Mage_Atari]

Now it seems that I have run into one last, final issue. When I step onto a point, it triggers a unit to speak. Fog is enabled, so how do I make the fog disappear when the unit speaks?

[uncleshelby]

Love the campaign, very funny. But there are some problems. (Not technical, though.) It seems the slimes are all overpowered. I think it's not right when the "Wild Slime" unit can kill a bowman in one turn, ending up with full life. I don't know, maybe humans just suck.

Anyway, the second scenario is to hard, compared with the first one. I suggest either make the first level harder, or make the second one easier.

But it is an awesome campaign!

[Great_Mage_Atari]

Thanks for the good feedback. The slimes' attacks are now balanced accordingly. Tonight will be the release of the 3rd scenario and an easier 2nd scenario.

[powershot]

I agree with uncleshelby, like I said in my feedback seond is too hard.
Maybe the powerful slimes are purposeful, I had to beat the first scenario with all wild slimes.

[Great_Mage_Atari]

Second map will be smaller, with one less castle for blue and peasants and woodsmen for green.

Edit: updates are added.

[uncleshelby]

Cool, possibly you could make goblins stronger? I think that would be funner.

[Great_Mage_Atari]

I may give the goblins some new advantages, which may include:
1) Making them stronger to be able to combat other enemy forces
2) Letting them recruit abnormal units (i.e. Ogres, Gryphons, etc.).
3) Giving them some Orcish units to use (more than likely only Assassins and Archers).

Other units and teams may also be irregular for purely comical purposes. I may give goblins the exact amount of gold needed to recruit a Fire Dragon and give them no gold afterwards. Just for fun. Who knows? I make this stuff up as I go along.

[uncleshelby]

If your going to go irregular, you should make it be something EXTREMELY irregular. Like a dwarf that can recruit an elf, saurian, ogre, orc, troll, and a khalifate. I also like the Fire Dragon idea. That would be a fun mash-up.

[Great_Mage_Atari]

See, I need some regularity, else hard-core fans of the game will be all over me like a fart in a phone booth. I figured since goblins are the weakest they would be the ones to be irregular as recruiters. I may also add in teams where they normally wouldn't be (i.e. Dwarves on an island, Elves in caves).

[artisticdude]

I took a run-through of the campaign, and I've got several comments:

Spoiler:

-Cheetos and Monty Python XDD

-Why do the slimes get 70% defense in forested terrain, but only 20% defense in water (it seems like they'd be more at home in the water than in forest, being, well, slimy).

-In the first scenario, the slime is facing sw (towards the edge of the screen) while talking to the enemy leader to the south-east. It would make more sense cosmetically if you had him facing se.

-There are a number of typos in the initial dialogue in the first scenario

-Calvin has a hero icon overlay, but if he dies the player doesn't lose. That further complicates things if he's not around for the dialogue in the following scenario.

-The map in the first scenario seems rather barren. The only terrain that really provides any advantage is the river. Perhaps have some more hills or trees closer to the middle (where the two sides will most likely meet) to increase the strategy element of the scenario?

-The defeat dialogue of the enemy leader in the first scenario fires after his die animation plays, which makes it seem like he's talking from the land of the dead or something. Using 'event=last breath' rather than 'event=die' will play the dialogue when his hitpoints go below 0, but before he actually dies (before the unit is removed from the map and before its death animation plays). As a matter of fact, looking at the death dialogues for Slimely and Calvin, those would also be better off as 'last breath' events rather than 'die' events.

-You will want to macro the death dialogues of the major persistent characters on the player's side, since they have death dialogues in scenario 1 but not in scenario 2.

-Why do you have current mainline portraits in the directory add-ons/Story_of_the_Slimes/images/portraits? Those portraits aren't going to be deprecated in mainline anytime soon, and adding them to your campaign data just bloats the size of the download and the in-game loading time unnecessarily, though perhaps minimally.

-Your code indentation is all over the place, which makes it hard to read, and harder to maintain. If you don't want to deal with all the indentation as you write the code (although that's not the best idea), running wmlindent on your project is a quick and easy way to fix indentation issues.

This definitely looks like it has a lot of potential; keep up the good work!

[Great_Mage_Atari]

Thanks! As for your questions:

0.1) I appreciate that people like the Cheetos and Monty Python.
1) I am currently using the Elven movement type as a placeholder til' I can make a new one.
2) As for the Slime facing the right way, it will be fixed ASAP (perhaps some laziness on my part).
3) Typos will be fixed.
4) Accidentally didn't put in the lose feature when Calvin dies. Will be fixed today.
5) 1st scenario will be spruced up.
6) Last breath will replace die.
7) Death dialogues will be fixed.
8 ) Portraits will be removed.
9) As for my coding, I prefer the indents. Call me crazy.

All will be fixed tonight when I can. 3, 4, 6, 7, and 8 are fixed at the moment.

[powershot]

Error
When I downloaded 0.3.8 it gave me a error about an in valid closing tag for the weird kid scenario, just so you know.

[Great_Mage_Atari]

Here is a little quiz about the game so far, for improvement reasons:

1) Did you think the first scenario was too hard or too easy?

2) Did you dislike the second scenario because of it's size?

3) Did you like the third scenario at all? (was it interesting, too hard, too unbalanced?)

4) Do you like the comedic effect I am trying to get through?

5) Does this campaign offend you in any way, shape, or form?

6) Do you like this campaign in general?