Feature requests

[melvin]

I have a .app package for Mac OS X that I made this evening. Could I submit it for inclusion?

Do you mean an .app package for installing the game on Mac? That would be great! I'm always looking out for ways to simplify the installation.

Can you put it up somewhere and post an URL?

Is it possible to update the package with a new jar?

[missalexis]

Do you mean an .app package for installing the game on Mac? That would be great! I'm always looking out for ways to simplify the installation.

Can you put it up somewhere and post an URL?

Is it possible to update the package with a new jar?

Yes, for a Mac!

URL:

http://www.mediafire.com/?9d9ldl3dm8b11dt

You can just replace the Magarena.jar included in mine with an updated one. Also that some directory is where all the additional resources go. I did not include, obviously, to save bandwidth.

Thanks again for a wonderful app; I spend more time playing Magarena than any other Magic app.

[melvin]

You can just replace the Magarena.jar included in mine with an updated one. Also that some directory is where all the additional resources go. I did not include, obviously, to save bandwidth.

Thanks! Updating the jar seems simple enough, but which directory should the Magarena data directory go?

Thanks again for a wonderful app; I spend more time playing Magarena than any other Magic app.

On behalf of the dev team, your support and contribution towards a better Mac install is greatly appreciated

[Huggybaby]

Well then melvin, give missalexis a thumbs up (And give yourself a cool avatar while you're at it. )

BTW melvin, I played with the latest build last night, and I found that a bug I hadn't reported had already been fixed.

I'm really looking forward to the next release!

[beholder]

(And give yourself a cool avatar while you're at it. )

LOL, I so agree.

I found that a bug I hadn't reported had already been fixed

That's great but why didn't you report the bug? Oh and out of curiosity, what was the bug?

[Huggybaby]

Ha, well, I never report a bug until I've seen it twice, and had a chance to read up on the rules. Because usually what I think is a bug is just my misunderstanding the rules, so I have to be careful to save myself embarrassment.

And I can't remember what it was now, it's too early.

[jmartus]

Commander mode would be really fun with all the official preconstructed commander decks.

[Milod]

i think magernena is ripe for a standard mode sort list of cards in deck editor is handy

[Milod]

I want to bring back the topic about muligans and hand max hand size.

i think u dont have to worry much about the AI choice of discarding even in officel computer card games like yugioh and magic the gathering pc game the AI discards at rondom when they got a max hand size, its just the fun part to let the AI discards at rondom and for the ai able to discard cards. I realy dont dont mind wat cards the AI discards i find it more important to let the game alow discards from hand.

and about muligans i think u can let the player have muligans and the AI not, if the AI has trouble deciding wat cards to keep and wat not wel just cheat the AI and give it always a minimum of 2 land cards to begin with and let the AI decide at rondom if it takes a mulgian or not with like max 2 muligans for the AI for example. So much ways and possiblites to make this work so think about my ideas

and keep the good work about this game coming

[beholder]

Commander mode would be really fun with all the official preconstructed commander decks.

Certainly, but it looks really hard to implement with the different rules.

I want to bring back the topic about muligans and hand max hand size.

Discarding down to 7 cards is something we are testing right now. If the results are favorable it will be in the next release.
I haven't looked at the mulligan idea but Melvin has some ideas about an alternative way to do it.

[muaddib]

For optimization I offer use minimax like in chess, when human thinking. CPU does not use at this time.

[beholder]

I just request ten lines of coding:)
I just need an easy counting of the number of games won, lost and eventualy draws....

It was more like 150 lines of code but a basic history overview will be in the next release.

[Huggybaby]

In the New Duel screen, a limited number of decks is available, compared to the number of decks in the decks folder. How does a deck make the list?

Selecting the folder icon does what, choose a random deck? The folder should be labeled something like Random Precon.

For the precon decks that ARE on the list, like Fairy Horde, it would be helpful to know what colors are in those decks.

[beholder]

The folder icon does indeed select a deck at random from the Magarena/decks folder. The other named decks on the bottom of the list are not constructed but generated based on subtype or ability. Most of these decks use a predefined color (or colors) and I'll have a look at showing those next to the name (icons or just something like 'BU').

The wiki is your friend!

[Huggybaby]

Those decks are generated eh? Nice!

You could use shrunken versions of the icons already on the list for graphical consistency.

I missed the Wiki, very nice, you guys have been working hard. And setting an example too I might add.