Bug reports

[elias]

This is not really a bug, but I wonder if the loading icon could be improved (the blue spinning balls), because right now it's not transparent. Therefore, if you change the background of these tables to something dark you will have blue spinning balls with a white messy aura.

That is definitely a visual bug that should be fixed, tracking as https://code.google.com/p/magarena/issues/detail?id=374

Though given my paltry gfx skills, it may take a while. The image in question is https://magarena.googlecode.com/hg/reso ... s/busy.gif appreciate any help with patching it.

This is a bit problematic because there is no possibility for alpha in a .gif, so it is a bit difficult to get a .gif to look good on different backgrounds. There are many generators online to create loading .gif files, but these .gifs will have a white border around them.

Anyway, I edited the original loading icon a bit, and also found another one that I edited too. Still, because they are transparent now they will look a bit 'sharp'. try them out and see if they work.

Also try the file busy3.gif, it's completely transparent. maybe this is the best option, not sure if Magarena actually needs a loading icon. There's always text telling you what's going on so it becomes obvious that it is actually loading.

[elias]

Create a new duel, for both Player and AI choose a random deck.

Then click generate deck (to generate a new deck for either player or AI), then click Swap decks in the menu. Then click generate deck again. Then keep playing around with these two options.

What you will see is that the deck description is not being updated properly, the previous deck description will continue to stay even when new decks are generated. Seems like this starts to occur after using the swap deck function.

[melvin]

Create a new duel, for both Player and AI choose a random deck.

Then click generate deck (to generate a new deck for either player or AI), then click Swap decks in the menu. Then click generate deck again. Then keep playing around with these two options.

What you will see is that the deck description is not being updated properly, the previous deck description will continue to stay even when new decks are generated. Seems like this starts to occur after using the swap deck function.

Thanks for the report, tracking this as https://code.google.com/p/magarena/issues/detail?id=380

[elias]

Here's one that's easy to fix. Unleash is missing in the keywords, pretty sure I have played with cards having this ability. Sorry I don't use the issue page on google code, but I do not have a google account.

[melvin]

Thanks for pointing that out, probably a whole bunch of other keywords are missing as well.. anyway added Unleash in https://code.google.com/p/magarena/sour ... ce1a6154ff

No worries about the issues page, it is really terrible that they require a google account to post issues, downloads will also be removed in the future. Time to find something better.

[elias]

Not sure if this can be fixed, but if you change theme during a duel some objects will not update. Such as the message icon, table heading background color, and spacing between borders in the game field (there might be more things not being updated). Creating a new duel will fix the theme.

The easiest way to "solve" this is probably just to inform the player that once a theme has been changed during a duel a new duel needs to be created to load the theme fully.

[elias]

Thanks for pointing that out, probably a whole bunch of other keywords are missing as well.. anyway added Unleash in https://code.google.com/p/magarena/sour ... ce1a6154ff

No worries about the issues page, it is really terrible that they require a google account to post issues, downloads will also be removed in the future. Time to find something better.

Extort is also missing

[melvin]

Added both extort and cascade.

[melvin]

Not sure if this can be fixed, but if you change theme during a duel some objects will not update. Such as the message icon, table heading background color, and spacing between borders in the game field (there might be more things not being updated). Creating a new duel will fix the theme.

The easiest way to "solve" this is probably just to inform the player that once a theme has been changed during a duel a new duel needs to be created to load the theme fully.

Thanks for catching this, tracking as https://code.google.com/p/magarena/issues/detail?id=382

[hong yie]

just found it during test play.
Ai spend "Last Gasp" to target my large creature, which doesn't kill it. it's a waste, i say. it could be saved for better situation, i think. maybe not only last gasp, other spells might be wasted this way too.

[melvin]

Ai spend "Last Gasp" to target my large creature, which doesn't kill it. it's a waste, i say. it could be saved for better situation, i think. maybe not only last gasp, other spells might be wasted this way too.

Thanks for the observation. Need some additional details to look into this. Was there another creature it should have targeted instead? Which AI were you playing against?

[hong yie]

Thanks for the observation. Need some additional details to look into this. Was there another creature it should have targeted instead? Which AI were you playing against?

i was Playing against "monte Carlo" level 4. is it possibly because of the level 4? there're some other smaller creatures that can be killed by "Last Gasp" at that time. I'll try to play against higher level Ai next time.

[melvin]

I don't think the level matters too much here. For the monte carlo AI, when the AI is sure to win/lose, it sometimes make dumb choices as these choices do not influence the eventual outcome.

Did the AI win or lose that particular game in the end and do you think this improving this particular move could have helped the AI to win?

[hong yie]

the condition is almost too late to change the outcome at that time. creature tokens already flooding the battlefield with many +1/+1 counters on them. But i thought the Ai could at least appreciate "Last Gasp" or any other killing spells to its best purpose. spend it on the best target, at least. it can at least bring down 1 enemy creature.
this also applies on the way Ai choose to block during final assault. Ai hold its defender creatures while allowing large trample attacker been blocked by small creature, resulting over -10 life lose. Ai could just reduce the lose to -2 life if its blocks with all defender, even if it doesn't change the result.
Maybe you can add certain logic to minimize the lose, something that can make the Ai to choose -3 life(s) compare to - 30 life(s) as the outcome. that is computable, for sure.

[melvin]

That's a neat idea, right now AI prefer losing games with more steps and winning games with fewer steps. Using the amount of life at the end would be one way to differentiate between various losing scenarios, but life lose is not the only way to lose. The formula would probably have to take into account poison counters (creature with infect) and number of cards in the library (die by milling) as well.