Appreciating advices about Bonds of Faith

[thefiremind]

Taking a break from the full localisation of my cards, I'm coding some cards that will form a Human deck. I made Bonds of Faith, and the effect works, but I'm having a problem because of the AI's dumbness...

I used return TargetNeutralF() in the TARGET_DETERMINATION since Bonds of Faith can be used for different purposes on player's or opponent's creatures. By doing this, in a mirror match, the AI used Bonds of Faith on my Mikaeus, the Lunarch... this taught me that the AI can't determine in which situations the card should be used on opponent's creatures.

The "brutal" solution would be to force the AI to use Bonds of Faith for one purpose only, for example:

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    <TARGET_DETERMINATION>
    local filter = Object():GetFilter()
    filter:Clear()
    filter:AddCardType( CARD_TYPE_CREATURE )
    filter:SetZone( ZONE_IN_PLAY )
    if Object():GetPlayer():IsAI() ~= 0 then
      filter:AddSubType( CREATURE_TYPE_HUMAN )
      return TargetGoodF()
    else
      return TargetNeutralF()
    end
    </TARGET_DETERMINATION>

this would force the AI to use the card on its Human creatures only.

Does anybody have a better solution?

[Pesi]

Is there no way to filter away only enemy-controlled humans (and it's own non-humans)? Since the Target-functions are all just a filter-function followed by...

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  if Object():GetFilter():CountStopAt(1) == 1 then
    return TARGET_DETERMINATION_ALL
  else
    return TARGET_DETERMINATION_NONE
  end


it feels like this kind of card should use it's own thing followed by the above instead of TargetGood/Bad/NeutralF()

[thefiremind]

Is there no way to filter away only enemy-controlled humans (and it's own non-humans)? Since the Target-functions are all just a filter-function followed by...

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  if Object():GetFilter():CountStopAt(1) == 1 then
    return TARGET_DETERMINATION_ALL
  else
    return TARGET_DETERMINATION_NONE
  end


it feels like this kind of card should use it's own thing followed by the above instead of TargetGood/Bad/NeutralF()

The "filter-function" you are talking about is SetNeutral/ParentHint/ParentAntiHint. I'm not sure about the behaviour when not specifying this, but it could be the same as using SetNeutral.
And there's no way to combine sub-groups of functions in the same filter, so you can't say "(humans AND controlled by you) OR (non humans AND controlled by opponent)" because there's no way to express the parentheses.

[Pesi]

The only other idea I have is to either:
1)Mess with the card's in-play value depending on what kind of target is picked... or
2)Have the card simply have a different targeting-schema when played by an AI; it would be modal with a "good" ability that targets only humans and a "bad" ability that targets only non-humans.

[thefiremind]

2)Have the card simply have a different targeting-schema when played by an AI; it would be modal with a "good" ability that targets only humans and a "bad" ability that targets only non-humans.

I thought about this recently. It could be a nice idea if I can make it in practice.