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apthaven wrote:

Triadasoul wrote:2. Klaas, Elf Friend doesn't have picture

If I'm not mistaken Klaas, Elf Friend isn't a legitimate MTG card. It is a special exclusive card that Forge has along with Tortuga.

Correct. Rares made that one for me because I am known to play a lot of elf decks.

DennisBergkamp wrote:

Mr.Chaos wrote:And where is this all-decks converter tool then? I cannot find it anywhere in the folder of the game.
Feeling a mixture of stoopid/confused/disappointed. Hoping it will pass...

I don't think there's a separate tool, I think it's supposed to happen automatically whenever forge is started. I dunno, maybe I misunderstood as well, Silly Freak explained it this way, or somewhere along these lines.

Well, the game does not automatically include/convert the old all-decks2 file so I am screwed.
The idea of manually importing all those decks horrifies me.
Not that I play them all, I just like to play against them by letting the computer use a random deck.
Because those decks are better than the generated decks.
I hope this gets fixed soon. Big downer for me.

It seems the last 2 beta releases are really unlucky. The 1101 was mana-screwed and the 1112 has no decks and no easy way to include them.
Feels like the classic "too many fingers on keyboard" error. So many coders are on the case that the general compatibility checks between offered additions seem to be overlooked.
But that is just my observation.
I mean, I know this is beta and we are meant to find bugs for you coders. But the all decks2 file not converting?
Come on! You guys should have spotted that one the first time you ran the game before uploading it here.
A little advise for future releases: run the game at least once and play a game or two just to make sure the basics work.
Sorry to sound so grumpy but both the mana issue and the all-decks issue should have been spotted before releasing those beta versions because they are such big and obvious errors.

Concerning last version's mana pool issues: I am sorry, the "snow mana pool" idea did cause problems, but I think it was possible to play fairly.

Concerning all-decks: We were not aware of that being a problem, and as far as I know, the developers using svn did keep their decks, so the bug did not actually appear until the beta was released.

apthaven wrote:

Triadasoul wrote:2. Klaas, Elf Friend doesn't have picture

If I'm not mistaken Klaas, Elf Friend isn't a legitimate MTG card. It is a special exclusive card that Forge has along with Tortuga.

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There is a third non-real fantasy card that he created, Test Destroy.

Yes, I'm sorry, I shouldn't have released the 11/02 Beta, but in my defense, I did a lot of testing on this latest version. The Deck conversion not working still slipped through though
You have to understand, it's a process. Whenever some improvement (and I think the new deck format is a definite improvement) is attempted, oftentimes stuff will not work 100% the first time around. We've seen this with a lot of features in Forge (first strike, protection/shroud and manapool to name a few examples).

Don't worry, this should be fixed soon (I think Silly Freak might even have gotten all of his decks into the new format, if this is the case he could just rar them and post them on the forums).

sorry, would have helped earlier, but i was in venice over weekend

so, the bug wasn't that hard - it was my fault, i put a properties file on the SVN that assumed that the files were migreted already

Dennis, you've done something strange with this release. there are four files:

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main.properties
main.properties.mine
main.properties.r63
main.properties.r65


you only need the first one, but you need to replace its content:

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program/mail=mtgrares@yahoo.com
program/forum=http://www.slightlymagic.net/forum/viewforum.php?f=26
program/version=MTG Forge -- official beta: 09/11/02, SVN revision: 65

tokens--file=AllTokens.txt

decks--file=all-decks2
booster-decks--file=booster-decks
decks-dir--file=decks

card-pictures--file=card-pictures.txt
cards--file=cards.txt
removed.cards--file=removedCards.txt

regular/common--file=common.txt
regular/uncommon--file=uncommon.txt
regular/rare--file=rare.txt

name-mutator--file=name-mutator.txt

gui--properties=gui/gui.properties
quest--properties=quest/quest.properties

lang--transparent-properties=lang/lang.properties

image/base--file=pics


when you start the program, it should ask you if you want to import your decks. if you have duplicates (decks in the new folder and in all-decks2 with the same name), i think that those in the folder are overwritten, but better don't count on that.

once you have migrated your decks, you can either delete the old all-decks2, or comment it out in main.properties:

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#decks--file=all-decks2


(this was the case in the release, and stopped the converter from the beginning on)


i hope everything works fine now, have fun with your new old decks!

silly freak wrote:sorry, would have helped earlier, but i was in venice over weekend

so, the bug wasn't that hard - it was my fault, i put a properties file on the SVN that assumed that the files were migreted already

i hope everything works fine now, have fun with your new old decks!

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I followed the instructions and it works. Awesome, thank you. I remember looking at the main.properties file and I found the one line stating:

#decks--file=all-decks2

I felt that this might be the problem, but I have been busy with figuring out the new SVN. A simple fix and people should be able to convert there all-decks2 file over to this new format.

yeah, but i'd suggest that Dennis repacks the fixed version and puts it up, that would be much easier for most of the users to handle

silly freak wrote:sorry, would have helped earlier, but i was in venice over weekend

so, the bug wasn't that hard - it was my fault, i put a properties file on the SVN that assumed that the files were migreted already

Dennis, you've done something strange with this release. there are four files:

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main.properties
main.properties.mine
main.properties.r63
main.properties.r65


you only need the first one, but you need to replace its content:

Code: Select all

program/mail=mtgrares@yahoo.com
program/forum=http://www.slightlymagic.net/forum/viewforum.php?f=26
program/version=MTG Forge -- official beta: 09/11/02, SVN revision: 65

tokens--file=AllTokens.txt

decks--file=all-decks2
booster-decks--file=booster-decks
decks-dir--file=decks

card-pictures--file=card-pictures.txt
cards--file=cards.txt
removed.cards--file=removedCards.txt

regular/common--file=common.txt
regular/uncommon--file=uncommon.txt
regular/rare--file=rare.txt

name-mutator--file=name-mutator.txt

gui--properties=gui/gui.properties
quest--properties=quest/quest.properties

lang--transparent-properties=lang/lang.properties

image/base--file=pics


when you start the program, it should ask you if you want to import your decks. if you have duplicates (decks in the new folder and in all-decks2 with the same name), i think that those in the folder are overwritten, but better don't count on that.

once you have migrated your decks, you can either delete the old all-decks2, or comment it out in main.properties:

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#decks--file=all-decks2


(this was the case in the release, and stopped the converter from the beginning on)


i hope everything works fine now, have fun with your new old decks!

Aha, cool Thanks for the fix, Silly Freak!

And yes, I know I messed up my local version of main.properties... I'm not sure how to fix it though. I thought I edited all conflicts and marked it as resolved, but when I try to commit it, it says it will perform a delete.

yeah, but i'd suggest that Dennis repacks the fixed version and puts it up, that would be much easier for most of the users to handle

I will have to wait before releasing the next beta (there's a lot of new stuff added, which has quite a few bugs, undoubtedly). I've been noticing some weird new bugs, for instance the whole combat code stopped working, 11/12 is our most stable build now I think.
But I did manage to convert my all-decks2 file, and I just saved all of the decks it generated, I think it contains almost all of the decks submitted until recently.

Just unzip its contents into /res/decks

YES! This works! Now we have some decks to play with again.
Thanks guys!

Awesome to see some of my decks in there.

You guys are real troopers you know that? Thank you all for your hard work that has been giving me much fun.

DennisBergkamp wrote:Yes, I'm sorry, I shouldn't have released the 11/02 Beta, but in my defense, I did a lot of testing on this latest version. The Deck conversion not working still slipped through though

Don't worry about it. You are doing a great job. Upgrading the deck system is a big process. (I should know because I wrote the old, broken deck system, ha.)

My 2 cents, make a menu option in the Deck Editor that opens up a window like Notepad using JTextArea and let people cut and paste the text file that export creates. It isn't pretty but it seems easy.