Topic: 2 Suggestions of starting and winning

Ragelor

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Joined: 2022-12-23, 12:18
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Posted at: 2022-12-23, 12:26

Hi,

I'm playing very often against KI and sometimes it's getting boring at the end, as I'm missing some winning condition which should be easy to implement: to own not only the full land or 50%, but also a percentage I can set at will at game start, maybe 60% or 80% (depending on the map) –> 50% is sometimes reached too fast against one KI, but 100% is very boring at the end...

2nd: I suggest a mode I saw at 0.a.d. (which I also play very often against KI): espacially on small maps the KI attacks prior building camps to train soldiers and the game is over prior developing some buildings... So what about a "half friendly mode", where attacks are forbidden for the first let's say 30 or 60 minutes, so each player is able to develop some infrastructure prior attacking others...

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aDiscoverer

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Posted at: 2023-06-22, 16:47

2nd

For your 2nd suggestion I just wrote an addon called "time-limitted-peaceful.wad". (May need some time to be available for download.) As long as it is enabled, a peaceful singleplayer game is limitted to 45 minutes playing peacefully. Adapt the value in init.lua on your computer to have a different time.

Have fun. Feedback is welcome.

For better configuration, I suggest to adapt the UI and replace the peaceful "checkbox" with peaceful "time", which is 0 for not peaceful. (And for always peaceful? -1 is not the nicest. Let's discuss this.) Allowing to attack after this time is simple to implement (as my addon shows).

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Your first suggestion also needs UI adaptions. To make this more general, I suggest to allow win_conditions to show a config dialog (opened with a button if configured). Land lord _ could allow to set the percentage of land, as you suggest.
You could set the number of heros for _first heros win (addon)
or set the percentage to explore in explorer wins (addon).

The configuration in (init.lua) could look like this:

r = {
    allow_peaceful = true,
    config = {
        conquer = {
            label = _"percent to conquer",
            min = 30,
            max = 100,
            default = 50,
        },
        keep = {
            label = _"minutes to keep territory",
            default = 20,
            -- min is 0 normally, max is BIG normally
        }
    }
    ...

Integers as input would probably be enough. I see no need for strings, possibly for combo boxes.

Edited: 2023-06-23, 10:07

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