Shandalar - Program Bugs

[Korath]

Works for me, with a game situation matching your screenshot as close as I can determine. And wouldn't fix in any case, as Balance hasn't been rewritten yet.

Yesterday it happened again against Prismat Green Dragon deck (print screen failed).

I played Balance with 2 Plains and 1 Mox: Pearl in play. AI had 3 lands (don't recall which) and 1 Onulet in play.

Cards in hand where balanced and AI sacrificed a land. Onulet remained in play. What is in common here and my previous screenshot? Artifacts: my Mox against its Onulet, and in the screenshot I control a total of 9 creatures + artifacts VS AI's 9 creatures.

It seems Balance is counting artifacts as if they are creatures.

I also had a problem with Balance. It was played by my opponent. Lands were processed correctly, as were cards in hand (I had none, opponent lost his two remaining). I had one creature, my opponent had three. I had to sacrifice my creature, my opponent lost none. (Thieves Hideout 1 as well)

I tested Balance some more. Lands and hand cards worked correctly each time.
Creature number were (mine/opponent's, before -> after):
4/3 -> 2/3
7/3 -> 2/3
3/2 -> 1/2 (opponent's Balance)
7/2 -> 1/2
See also the screenshots (more will follow, I can only upload 5 at a time).
There were more tests where I forgot the screenshots, but they went similarly. Some things I thought I noticed but that were not correct in subsequent castings: That artifacts are counted differenty from colored creatures (only white creatures in number 3); that creatures in hand are somehow counted (not the case in number 2 and 3).

more screenshots, see my other post

[Korath]

It's definitively caused by a bug in the MicroProse implementation. Excerpt:

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          if (is_in_play(0, c_) && cards_data[card_instances[0][c_].internal_card_id].type & TYPE_CREATURE && card_instances[0][c_].kill_code != KILL_SACRIFICE)
            ++player0_creatures;
          if (is_in_play(1, c_) && cards_data[card_instances[1][c_].internal_card_id].type & TYPE_CREATURE && card_instances[0][c_].kill_code != KILL_SACRIFICE)
            ++player1_creatures;


The second card_instances[0][c_].kill_code should be card_instances[1][c_].kill_code. It's miscounting the AI's number of creatures by looking at bad data from the corresponding card controlled by the human player. Nothing to do with artifacts. Will be fixed when Balance is rewritten.