Forge Beta: 03-27-2013 ver 1.3.11

[Siorghlas]

Excuse me if I post in the wrong place, it's my first time here

I've been playing since two versions ago with the Sorin and Tibalt decks from the recent duel decks, I've noticed two failures in the A.I.

The Rakdos Carnarium card is mentioned as buggy at match start, what it happens is that sometimes it's played and returned to hand instead of another land, hindering AI mana development. It happens only sometimes but when it does it usually happens at least twice in a row in the same match.

The Recoup card is not mentioned as buggy. The AI always casts it and never casts the sorcery given flashback, be it with available mana or no, thus wasting it completely.

[ArtificialDream]

My Humility was bounced by the static ETB ability of Sedraxis Alchemist

I see no problem with this. Did the controller of Sedraxis Alchemist not have a blue permanent or something?

Won't Humility act on Layer 6 of Sedraxis Alchemist and ETB as a 1/1 creature?

[Chris H.]

I must say I don't like the new migration.

 
The new user data migration/import system is designed to make the upgrading to the next version process far easier for most people.

In the past people found that moving a copy of their old pics, decks, etc was far too much work. A number of people failed to update to each new version because of the amount of work this would entail.

At times people would mistakenly move over old copies of their layouts and/or preferences and this sometimes caused forge to crash.

Some people would re-download all of the pictures rather than copy/move their pictures from the old version to the new version.

[Chris H.]

There are very good directions about how to setup Forge to put additional files into whatever directory you want.. including a directory inside the Forge folder.

I didn't write the migration code, but you should be able to do something like this:

Say Forge is installed to D:\forge.

Copy and rename the forge.profile.properties.example file in D:\forge\ so that the new file is forge.profile.properties

Then change the following lines:

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userDir=
cacheDir=


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userDir=D:/forge/riggedprofile
cacheDir=D:/forge/riggedprofile/cache


This solution of course depends on Forge not having a top level folder named "riggedprofile" in a future release (that's pretty unlikely, so I bet it will be safe), it does allow you to have forge be portable and encapsulated in a single directory while still allowing the devs to isolate these extra data files outside of the main forge to make the process of upgrading Forge in the future easier.

 
People can use the same dir path for their userDir and their cacheDir. I do this on my local copy and have not noticed any problems at this time. Sol's suggestion might be more future proof.

[ozks]

yeah Chris H. I also thought it was more problematic, but was in fact very easy to change folders
this is my file, all the files remain on the same folder (i use Windows 7) it works with my portable Forge

forge.profile.zip

Just put in the main folder of forge

(1.65 KiB) Downloaded 396 times

[freddyjsg]

I found a couple of bugs
- The ETB ability of Gruul Ragebeast fizzles when used by the AI
- When my opponent's Tidehollow Sculler enters the battlefield, he targets me then exiles a card from his hand
- When I cipher 2 cards with the same name on a single creature, and that creature deals combat damage to a player, I only cast one of the cards encoded, not two.

[Phoenix]

Game crashes when AI plays Ardent Plea.

NullPointerException | Open

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Forge Version:    1.3.11-r20622
Operating System: Windows 7 6.1 amd64
Java Version:     1.7.0_10 Oracle Corporation

java.lang.NullPointerException
   at forge.card.ability.ai.RepeatAi.canPlayAI(RepeatAi.java:15)
   at forge.card.ability.SpellAbilityAi.doTriggerAINoCost(SpellAbilityAi.java:43)
   at forge.card.ability.SpellAbilityAi.doTriggerNoCostWithSubs(SpellAbilityAi.java:35)
   at forge.card.ability.SpellApiBased.canPlayFromEffectAI(SpellApiBased.java:60)
   at forge.game.ai.AiController.chooseAndPlaySa(AiController.java:746)
   at forge.game.player.PlayerControllerAi.playCascade(PlayerControllerAi.java:100)
   at forge.game.GameActionUtil$CascadeAbility.resolve(GameActionUtil.java:157)
   at forge.game.zone.MagicStack.resolveStack(MagicStack.java:843)
   at forge.game.phase.PhaseHandler.passPriority(PhaseHandler.java:737)
   at forge.game.player.PlayerController.passPriority(PlayerController.java:73)
   at forge.control.input.InputPassPriority.selectButtonOK(InputPassPriority.java:77)
   at forge.gui.InputProxy.selectButtonOK(InputProxy.java:70)
   at forge.gui.match.controllers.CMessage$2.actionPerformed(CMessage.java:57)
   at javax.swing.AbstractButton.fireActionPerformed(Unknown Source)
   at javax.swing.AbstractButton$Handler.actionPerformed(Unknown Source)
   at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.fireActionPerformed(Unknown Source)
   at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.setPressed(Unknown Source)
   at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicButtonListener$Actions.actionPerformed(Unknown Source)
   at javax.swing.SwingUtilities.notifyAction(Unknown Source)
   at javax.swing.JComponent.processKeyBinding(Unknown Source)
   at javax.swing.JComponent.processKeyBindings(Unknown Source)
   at javax.swing.JComponent.processKeyEvent(Unknown Source)
   at java.awt.Component.processEvent(Unknown Source)
   at java.awt.Container.processEvent(Unknown Source)
   at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
   at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
   at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
   at java.awt.KeyboardFocusManager.redispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
   at java.awt.DefaultKeyboardFocusManager.dispatchKeyEvent(Unknown Source)
   at java.awt.DefaultKeyboardFocusManager.preDispatchKeyEvent(Unknown Source)
   at java.awt.DefaultKeyboardFocusManager.typeAheadAssertions(Unknown Source)
   at java.awt.DefaultKeyboardFocusManager.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
   at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
   at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
   at java.awt.Window.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
   at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
   at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
   at java.awt.EventQueue.access$200(Unknown Source)
   at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(Unknown Source)
   at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(Unknown Source)
   at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
   at java.security.ProtectionDomain$1.doIntersectionPrivilege(Unknown Source)
   at java.security.ProtectionDomain$1.doIntersectionPrivilege(Unknown Source)
   at java.awt.EventQueue$4.run(Unknown Source)
   at java.awt.EventQueue$4.run(Unknown Source)
   at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
   at java.security.ProtectionDomain$1.doIntersectionPrivilege(Unknown Source)
   at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
   at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(Unknown Source)
   at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(Unknown Source)
   at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(Unknown Source)
   at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(Unknown Source)
   at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(Unknown Source)
   at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(Unknown Source)


[myk]

A Limited Edition Alpha Lightning Bolt just cost me 6 whole credits at the spell shop. Made me chuckle compared to older Forge versions.

Try downloading an updated card price list from the content downloaders menu if you'd like your old prices back : )

The gauntlet mode seems not work. We fight always with the same opponent and this regardless the number of selected opponents (5,10, 20 and etc ...) it's always the first opponent who returned withoud stopping.

Gauntlet mode does seem like it needs some love. @devs: could someone describe or point me to a document that describes how gauntlet mode is supposed to work?

People can use the same dir path for their userDir and their cacheDir. I do this on my local copy and have not noticed any problems at this time.

I wouldn't recommend this, though -- userDir and cacheDir have different semantics, and it can cause issues if the same subdir exists in both but they are defined to the same path. This will likely happen more when we implement overlays (overrides of individual data files). The skins code I'm working on now also loads (downloadable "official") skins from cacheDir/skins and (user-created or "unofficial") skins from userDir/skins.

[moomarc]

I cast Lobotomy and target my opponent. The spell reveals my own hand. I did not choose any card to exile. The same thing happens with Denying Wind.

These and related cards (changing zones from a hidden zone) are now fixed.

[gos]

Extreme corner case:

The two triggered abilities of Fool's Demise are treated as one ability by forge. This means I can't decide the order they go on the stack, thus making the beautiful interaction with Academy Researchers from yesterday's From the Lab impossible.

[friarsol]

The two triggered abilities of Fool's Demise are treated as one ability by forge.

I'm not sure what you mean it's treated as one ability? There are two triggers on the card script. Can you list the exact repro and what happens at each step?

[gos]

The two triggered abilities of Fool's Demise are treated as one ability by forge.

I'm not sure what you mean it's treated as one ability? There are two triggers on the card script. Can you list the exact repro and what happens at each step?

I'm sorry, I was totally wrong. Tried it again with fewer triggered abilities going on the stack at the same time and there are obviously two triggers from Fool's Demise.

[cc-drake]

My Mercadian Atlas triggers even if it is in my graveyard.

[rigged]

I must say I don't like the new migration.

Especially with it moving files and creating folders in places I don't want touched.

I want a single folder with forge in it.

When I upgrade I just extract the latest tar file into that folder over writing all the files.

I want that portable folder back.

Please make this an option.

I currently can't even play forge because I refuse to complete the migration.

very upsetting.

There are very good directions about how to setup Forge to put additional files into whatever directory you want.. including a directory inside the Forge folder.

I didn't write the migration code, but you should be able to do something like this:

Say Forge is installed to D:\forge.

Copy and rename the forge.profile.properties.example file in D:\forge\ so that the new file is forge.profile.properties

Then change the following lines:

Code: Select all

userDir=
cacheDir=


Code: Select all

userDir=D:/forge/riggedprofile
cacheDir=D:/forge/riggedprofile/cache


This solution of course depends on Forge not having a top level folder named "riggedprofile" in a future release (that's pretty unlikely, so I bet it will be safe), it does allow you to have forge be portable and encapsulated in a single directory while still allowing the devs to isolate these extra data files outside of the main forge to make the process of upgrading Forge in the future easier.

This is too much work.

I can't do this.

I don't want to modify anything.

I update forge on like 20 computers and there's no way I'm modifying all of them.

The default should be portable, and for those who want to change it can.

[Salasnet]

Is it possible to use relative paths in the forge.profile.properties file for true portability?

i.e. userDir=./riggedprofile