Shandalar - Feature Requests

[Korath]

Hrm. I know I could force an immediate duel with an arbitrary enemy (chosen on the command line) as soon as a game is loaded, though certainly not easily. Changing the human player's deck is more difficult. (Even setting aside things like Burning Wish that look through the cards you own but aren't in your deck.) Maybe if I hijack the "Why don't you try this deck?" enemy ability....

[Korath]

commit db4d6e206afd37d0dde9928f84ec1a0d204098df
Author: Korath <dgk@Dirge.none>
Date: Wed Oct 21 20:23:04 2015 -0400

[NB] FIX #768: stand-alone duel mode via --enemy-deck, --player-deck cmdline

These start an endless series of duels between the two decks given on the
command line. Conceding will start a new duel as usual; closing the window
(via alt-F4 if not running in windowed mode) will do the right thing and exit,
even though Shandalar and Manalink both try to catch that and turn it into a
concession instead.

The options can each be either a deck's filename or a directory containing at
least one deck file ending in .dck. In the latter case, subdirectories are
searched as well, and a random deckfile is chosen each duel. (Exactly which
filenames are picked can be seen in shandalar_dll.log; the human player's is
named first. They're also echoed to the console.)

If only one of the two options is given, the other will be set to be the same.
(Combined with the above, this means that the usual way to run the game is
"shandalar -e decks".)

If a given pathname doesn't exist, try adding "decks/" at the start, ".dck" at
the end, and both before giving up.

Incidental: Modify human player's life with config options at the same point
the AI's life is set and mangled, rather than setting it (much) later just
before mulligans, so the unaltered total is never shown on the screen even
momentarily.