Feature requests

[Huggybaby]

Can you be more specific? I don't see any green or red borders.

[melvin]

Hi Nilzark, you have to change

option_use_overlay=true

to the theme.properties file as well. Assuming you are using the default felt_theme.

The default felt_theme distributed with the program as felt_theme.zip in Magarena/mods uses color borders to highlight the cards, i.e. it has option_use_overlay=false. All the other themes use an overlay on top of the whole card.

To modify the felt_theme.zip, you can unzip the contents of the zip file into a folder name felt_theme, i.e. Magarena/mods/felt_theme/, and modify the theme.properties file.

To get rid of any highlighting you have to make the color changes as suggested by Huggybaby and the changes to option_use_overlay I mentioned above. For the other themes, the option_use_overlay is already set to true.

[Nilzark]

See the green border around the cards?

The attached picture shows the green border that I am talking about. Making the felt theme option_use_overlay=false did not turn this off. I am using v1.16b by the way as I am finding 1.17b to not be stable. So maybe that has something to do with it.

~Nilzark

[Huggybaby]

I don't have those borders, color_choice=00,00,00,00 turns them off for me, so pls check your theme properties again.

I haven't found any instability in the latest release, please make a bug report so it can be fixed!

[melvin]

You need to use 1.17 for this as the option_use_overlay setting is only available in 1.17 and not in 1.16. As Huggybaby said, if you are encountering any problems running 1.17 do post about it in the bugs thread.

Apologies for the confusing instruction in my earlier post. To get rid of card highlights you need to have the following lines in your theme.properties file
option_use_overlay=true
color_choice=00,00,00,00
color_combat_choice=00,00,00,00

Detail instructions are:
1. unzip felt_theme.zip into a folder named felt_theme and then delete felt_theme.zip. You should see a bunch of images in Magarena/mods/felt_theme/

2. Edit Magarena/mods/felt_theme/theme.properties, change the file from
option_use_overlay=false
color_choice=00,FF,00,30
color_combat_choice=FF,00,00,70
to
option_use_overlay=true
color_choice=00,00,00,00
color_combat_choice=00,00,00,00

3. Start Magarena made sure the felt theme is selected.

[Nilzark]

Thanks guys. That worked.

v1.17b seems to be stable now. Maybe I screwed something up last time.

~Nilzark

[ubeefx]

Just a suggestion.
Instead of putting the highlighting method into the theme, add a highlighting option to the preferences.
And show a combobox with for instance none, overlay, border as choices.
Seems the most flexible approach to me.

[melvin]

I've thought about doing it as preferences. The trouble is that colors that work well as overlays tend not to work well as borders. Overlays tend to be light colors as the area of the overlay is large while borders need to be much bolder as it is very thin. So choosing colors that work in both cases is not easy...

[ubeefx]

Maybe you can use fixed colors for the border or have both colors defined in the theme.

[beholder]

... have both colors defined in the theme.

I like this option best.
We can update the themes to use the red and green borders for now and leave it to the author to possibly change those colors.

And show a combobox with for instance none, overlay, border as choices.

+1

[Huggybaby]

I also think it best to leave these choices to the themer.

[beholder]

The next release will let the user choose the style of highlighting usable cards.
Choices are:

none, overlay, border, theme (based on the theme's preference).

Let's hope this will satisfy every user

[muaddib]

Requests features below:
- Phases status bar and highlighted current phase
- Limit for hand size (discard cards more 8 in discard phase)
- When creature has been blocked with two or more creature, atacker is not able now divide damage between creatures, it's computer do.

[muaddib]

-mulligan
-pause while computer cast spell to see what he cast

[melvin]

Hi muaddib, thanks for your suggestions

We are aware the problem with the phase status but don't yet have a good solution. Do you have any specific ideas how we can make the current phase more prominent? At the moment, the current phase is shown just below the stack.

The hand size limit is not enforced as it might require the AI to consider a very large number of possible choices. However, it does make card drawing more powerful, perhaps too powerful. Most of the times the number of cards to discard will be small so it should not impact the AI too much, we will need to experiment to find out what is the impact.

Having the attacker order the blockers and divide up the damage just generates too many choices to consider. Exploring different combat options is currently the most computationally intensive part of the AI. That is why we have decided to simplify the game rules here. The blocker decides the order of blocking and the attacker just assigned the minimum lethal damage in order.

Mulligan was not included as we don't have a good way for the AI to use it. We generally try to balance the game so that the AI will be challenging. Increasing the complexity of the game, reduces the effectiveness of the AI player.

The game does pause for 2s when something is on the stack. It is the last slider on the preference menu, you can slide it all the way to the right to increase the duration of the pause. Alternatively, you can uncheck the "Skip single option choices" and the game wait for you to pass priority.