Feature Requests Thread

[Chris H.]

Just as Nordos said, it's 1366X768.
I didn't post this in bugs as the window works fine, it just has no function to resize whereas most forge windows do, it's unfortunate that my screen is so short as I can't move the window up, stupid wide-arse-screen.

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I changed my monitor setting from 1920 x 1200 to 1024 x 768. The quest mode deck editor displayed OK. The card shop was cut off at the bottom.

Some work was recently done on the deck editors and I think that someone might redo the deck editor layout at a latter date. Some work is now being done on a new battlefield layout and it will now shrink down to 800 x 600. A similar approach could be taken with the deck editors.

But at 800 x 600 the layout is no where near as nice as it is on a larger screen.

[lugaru]

I've got a totally noob feature request: an option to get 1 free mulligan when playing casually? Between playing with my friends and also Duels of the Plainswalkers I'm a bit spoiled, and even on my weird 50% land decks I still get no lands fairly often.

[Chris H.]

Because of the size of my screen, when using the Quest mode deck editor, I can't see the bottom of the window and it isn't possible to maximize or resize, can someone change to code to allow some way to fix this?

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The quest mode deck editor would have to be rewritten to allow the same sort of resizing that we see in the constructed mode deck editor. It is on the todo list.

I was able to adjust the layout somewhat and while the quest mode deck editor can not yet be resized it does look better:

EDIT: I set my monitor to 1024 x 768 when I took the screen shot below.

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[Chris H.]

I was able to adjust the layout somewhat and while the quest mode deck editor can not yet be resized it does look better:

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Turns out the quest mode card shop had a similar problem. Fixed and merged into the SVN.

[victorvndoom]

1) add a discard option on the developer section
2) add a shuffle deck option on the developer section
3) add player takes over computer turn in the developer section
4) add shuffle back x cards in the deck in developer section

5) hotseat option for forge so you can play against your self or you can do 3) so the player can temporaly takes over the computer. so you can 'tutor' him aswel. If you see the computer isnt playing against you aswel as you would like you can alter his hand by changing cards. Taking out cards shuffling them back in the deck and draw new (sort of scroll rack option)

6) scroll rack option in developer section

[Accountancy]

Because of the size of my screen, when using the Quest mode deck editor, I can't see the bottom of the window and it isn't possible to maximize or resize, can someone change to code to allow some way to fix this?

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The quest mode deck editor would have to be rewritten to allow the same sort of resizing that we see in the constructed mode deck editor. It is on the todo list.

I was able to adjust the layout somewhat and while the quest mode deck editor can not yet be resized it does look better:

EDIT: I set my monitor to 1024 x 768 when I took the screen shot below.

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I use Windows 7, so the taskbar would still cover the bottom of the window.

[moomarc]

Is it possible to add a version of the Subability parameter to the scripting API that waits for the first line to resolve before going on the stack? Something like SubThen$ maybe? It would help with some timing issues and make sure that cards with an intervening 'then' can be implemented correctly. Posted to Mantis as well (issue 585) but thought I'd post here in for easier discussion. In a way its a more specialised Execute$ for abilities instead of triggers.

[Chris H.]

I use Windows 7, so the taskbar would still cover the bottom of the window.

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I use Mac OS X Lion myself which has a dock located at the bottom of the window and this covers the bottom portion of the forge window. There is a command on Mac OS X for displaying or hiding this dock. Is there a similar command on Windows?

Ultimately, the quest mode deck editor and the card shop needs to be rewritten to use swing as this would then allow these two windows to scale in size. Unfortunately, I do not believe that my limited skill level would allow me to do the rewrite myself.

Finding a way to hide the Windows taskbar may be the only option at this time. At least the current quest mode card shop and deck editor is no longer drawing material out side of the display window. A small step forward.

[friarsol]

Is it possible to add a version of the Subability parameter to the scripting API that waits for the first line to resolve before going on the stack? Something like SubThen$ maybe? It would help with some timing issues and make sure that cards with an intervening 'then' can be implemented correctly. Posted to Mantis as well (issue 585) but thought I'd post here in for easier discussion. In a way its a more specialised Execute$ for abilities instead of triggers.

What card is this needed for? The real solution is to pass a function pointer into an Input so when that finishes it can continue on with the rest of what it wants to do. When I had started looking at Unless for Costs, this was a hard requirement and I didn't have the time to flesh it out in the right manner.

[moomarc]

Is it possible to add a version of the Subability parameter to the scripting API that waits for the first line to resolve before going on the stack? Something like SubThen$ maybe? It would help with some timing issues and make sure that cards with an intervening 'then' can be implemented correctly. Posted to Mantis as well (issue 585) but thought I'd post here in for easier discussion. In a way its a more specialised Execute$ for abilities instead of triggers.

What card is this needed for? The real solution is to pass a function pointer into an Input so when that finishes it can continue on with the rest of what it wants to do. When I had started looking at Unless for Costs, this was a hard requirement and I didn't have the time to flesh it out in the right manner.

I can't remember offhand which card specifically I was trying, but I know I've come across a few instances where this might help. I'll try find some specific cards tomorrow if I get a chance.

[moomarc]

@friarsol: I can't seem to find what I was working on. Sorry about that. Scanning the data file it makes me think that it might have just been something that translated to an Unless-type statement in which case your work would cover it anyway.

Another thing I might have had in mind was using it to create repeat loops in the form of

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A:AB$ ...| SubThen$ DBRepeat |...
SVar:DBRepeat:DB$...| SubThen$ DBRepeat | OptionalDecider$ True |...


or if that didn't work then this should work

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A:AB$ ...| SubThen$ DBRepeat1 |...
SVar:DBRepeat1:DB$...| SubThen$ DBRepeat2 | OptionalDecider$ True |...
SVar:DBRepeat2:DB$...| SubThen$ DBRepeat1 | OptionalDecider$ True |...


Regular subabilities fail here because it all resolves at once and creates an infinite loop, whereas if there was a SubThen that waited for resolution, it should work.

If I ever remember what I was working on when this request idea triggered, I'll let you know.

[friarsol]

That's ok, I think it mostly falls into the UnlessCost work requirements.

As for loops I think the "right" way to do it script wise looks like this:

| Open

A:SP$Dig | Cost$ 0 | DigNum$ 1 | Reveal$ True | ChangeNum$ All | ChangeValid$ Card | DestinationZone$ Hand | RememberChanged$ True | Label$ StartLoop | SubAbility$ DBLose
SVar:DBLose:DB$LoseLife | LifeAmount$ X | SubAbility$ DBCleanup
SVar:DBCleanup:DB$Cleanup | ClearRemembered$ True | SubAbility$ DBLoop
SVar:DBLoop:DB$ Loop | Goto$ StartLoop | OptionalDecider$ You

AF_Loop would check for OptionalDecider (or Conditional or whatever), popup a "do you want to repeat?" Dialog. If the appropriate player says yes, go through each of the Parent Abilities until the Goto Label is found, and resolve that.

[moomarc]

If it's not too complex, could one of the devs add PhasesAll AF. Not too sure what effort is required to build that from the targeted/defined Phases AF. With it we can finish off a bunch of the Visions, Mirage and Weatherlight sets.

Then we can pretty much clear out phasing related cards if we could do phases in/out triggers.

[friarsol]

If it's not too complex, could one of the devs add PhasesAll AF. Not too sure what effort is required to build that from the targeted/defined Phases AF. With it we can finish off a bunch of the Visions, Mirage and Weatherlight sets.

Then we can pretty much clear out phasing related cards if we could do phases in/out triggers.

You may want to put notes on some of these Phasing cards if you plan on adding them. Forge currently doesn't support "reattaching" of Equipment and Auras when they phase in. It's a bit of a corner case, but something we should still point out on the cards.

[Accountancy]

Not sure if there's a more appropriate thread for this, but with the old GUI, pressing enter/return would press the default button for the screen your on, i.e. in a game you can cycle through phases by pressing enter and easily resolve triggered abilities, but with the new ability, the enter/return key has no function I can tell and I have to manually move the mouse over to every window to press the buttons to change phases/resolve triggers etc. Is there anyway we can get this back? It made my games so much simpler and faster.