Forge 05/17/2011 (unofficial BETA) version

Forge 05/17/2011 (unofficial BETA) version
(Quest icons used created by Teekatas, from his Legendora set
http://raindropmemory.deviantart.com)
8051 cards in total.
This version is based upon the revision # 8758 which is found on our SVN.
This version included a significant re-write of the Booster Draft functionality. Draft from the Full card pool, sets/blocks or custom drafts (like cube). The AI will pick cards more intelligently, and builds decks from picked cards. Old method would pick cards for deck and then stop picking new cards.
There are a number of new and modified opponent decks in the quest mode. You will notice a new very hard tier category for the opponent. As you change from the previous tier to the next tier (easy to medium, etc.) you will now notice that there is not an abrupt change over. There is now a mixture of decks from the previous tier and the next tier for you to chose from. When you win a match you will complete the advancement to the next tier.
Anyone who would like to learn how to create draft cube sets for the new draft mode and/or quest decks for the quest mode is invited to join us on the forge forum.
We have fixed many bugs and have a large number of new cards including 118 cards from the New Phyrexia set. With this release we have increased the total number of cards to over 8000, a remarkable milestone.
I found a utility to remove the hidden Mac-related files. I removed the ".SVN" and the /res/lib/ folders from this archive as they are not needed. We have changed the archiving format to ".tar.bz2" since this may help to store the file permissions for the Mac OS X launcher. There are utilities for Windows, Mac OS and the various *nix's that can be used to decompress these archives.
The Mac OS application version:
We have packaged the Forge 05/17/2011 BETA version as a Mac OS application. You can double click the Forge.app icon to launch the forge application on your Apple computer running Mac OS. This application will automatically increase the java heap space memory for you as it launches. This version does not require the forge.command file and it does not need to start the Terminal application as part of the start up process. This version should only require java 1.5.
You can move a copy of your pictures and decks over to the Forge.app application. Right click or control click on the Forge.app icon. Select Show Package Contents form the contextual menu. A Finder window will open and will display a folder named Contents. Navigate to the folder:
/Contents/Resources/Java/res/
Your decks can be placed in the decks folder, your pics can be placed in the pics folder, etc.
Many people helped with this version. A special thank you goes out to them:
Rob Cashwalker
Sloth
Hellfish
Friar Sol
Slapshot5
Fnoed
SoulStorm
Corwin72
Jaedayr
ZzzzSleep
Timmermac
Eidolon
Jhhh
Chris H
Added many cards, including:
The links to the various archives:
(Quest icons used created by Teekatas, from his Legendora set
http://raindropmemory.deviantart.com)
8051 cards in total.
This version is based upon the revision # 8758 which is found on our SVN.
This version included a significant re-write of the Booster Draft functionality. Draft from the Full card pool, sets/blocks or custom drafts (like cube). The AI will pick cards more intelligently, and builds decks from picked cards. Old method would pick cards for deck and then stop picking new cards.
There are a number of new and modified opponent decks in the quest mode. You will notice a new very hard tier category for the opponent. As you change from the previous tier to the next tier (easy to medium, etc.) you will now notice that there is not an abrupt change over. There is now a mixture of decks from the previous tier and the next tier for you to chose from. When you win a match you will complete the advancement to the next tier.
Anyone who would like to learn how to create draft cube sets for the new draft mode and/or quest decks for the quest mode is invited to join us on the forge forum.
We have fixed many bugs and have a large number of new cards including 118 cards from the New Phyrexia set. With this release we have increased the total number of cards to over 8000, a remarkable milestone.
I found a utility to remove the hidden Mac-related files. I removed the ".SVN" and the /res/lib/ folders from this archive as they are not needed. We have changed the archiving format to ".tar.bz2" since this may help to store the file permissions for the Mac OS X launcher. There are utilities for Windows, Mac OS and the various *nix's that can be used to decompress these archives.
The Mac OS application version:
We have packaged the Forge 05/17/2011 BETA version as a Mac OS application. You can double click the Forge.app icon to launch the forge application on your Apple computer running Mac OS. This application will automatically increase the java heap space memory for you as it launches. This version does not require the forge.command file and it does not need to start the Terminal application as part of the start up process. This version should only require java 1.5.
You can move a copy of your pictures and decks over to the Forge.app application. Right click or control click on the Forge.app icon. Select Show Package Contents form the contextual menu. A Finder window will open and will display a folder named Contents. Navigate to the folder:
/Contents/Resources/Java/res/
Your decks can be placed in the decks folder, your pics can be placed in the pics folder, etc.
Many people helped with this version. A special thank you goes out to them:
Rob Cashwalker
Sloth
Hellfish
Friar Sol
Slapshot5
Fnoed
SoulStorm
Corwin72
Jaedayr
ZzzzSleep
Timmermac
Eidolon
Jhhh
Chris H
Added many cards, including:
- NEW CARD LIST | Open
The links to the various archives:
The Forge 05/17/2011 archive (requires java 5, possibly java 6):
forge 051720011.tar.bz2 (7.84 MB, at MediaFire)
forge05172011.zip (12.1 MB, at cardforge.org)
Forge 05/17/2011 BETA packaged as a Mac OS application:
Mac Forge 05172011.7z (8 MB, at MediaFire)
The quest opponent icons (New version, includes additional icons for the new opponents):
Quest_Opponent_Icons 05-17-2011.7z (1.18 MB, at MediaFire)
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