!!! What happened to DOTP 2014 Community !!!

[trias10]

HI

Probably some of you are interrogating what happened to DOTP2014 and if this game is still being updated by the community.

I only recently become involved in this project, just about a year ago. I started to code my own cards and correcting bugs.

As I write this post, I’m coding card from Modern Horizons 2. I have already coded cards from Khaldeim, Commander 2021, Strixhaven: School of Mages and some others. Modern Horizons 2 is the most recent I’m coding and next I’ll be moving to” Adventures in the Forgotten Realms”. By now, this game has more than 1200 new cards, coded and tested by me (A big THX for all the past coders of DOTP2014 for their released cards that are a resource of inspiration and knowledge for coding new cards.)

A year ago, I posted that I was creating new cards for DOTP2014 but there was no much of a reaction. I tried to quit this game a lot of times, but I always come back to some coding on cards. I love to create new cards, even if it takes a lot of my daily time.

This game has its own problems as a lot of you know. I tried to quit DOTP2014 and join Manalink 3.0 project, but it also has its own share of problems and I’ll never be half as good creating cards as I’m here inDOTP2014. I’m a Rookie but I understand the code. The good coders were RiiakShiNal(sorry:), theFiremind, Xander909, Splinterverse, NeoAnderson… These guys were the best source for good card code.

So, what happened to this game?

I think the shifting point it’s when Xander909 passed away. He was the main guy who kept the community active. He created cards, answered posts, kept an update version of the game…
After his death, the community behind DOTP2014 also become slowly dying, and now it’s almost dead.
Actually, I maintain active on this game for my own joy as the community never showed great interest in a new update for this game. I only like to play MTG against the AI, so Magic Arena was never an option and the other options around to play MTG all have their own problems including bad AI (Forge), lots of bugs (Manalink 3.0), bad UI (XMage).


So, since I started involved in DOTP2014 what have I already done?

"PLEASE CHECK PDF FILE ATTACHED FOR COMPLETE POST. THX"

Thank you so much for all of your hard work and dedication, I really appreciate it! I've been playing DOTP 2014 with the Community WAD for 6 years and it's my favourite way to play MtG, and I'm very grateful to you for keeping it going and fixing so many cards.

Quick question though, I'm currently trying out your latest release from July 2023, and I wanted to ask if there is any way to disable the free land card you get every turn? I read in your PDF that you have modified the rules such that both the player and the AI get a free land and non-land on each new turn, but is there any way to disable this and go back to playing vanilla Magic? I love all of your work and fixes, and would very much like to play with them, but I would just prefer to play the pure vanilla game which I know so well.

[etphonehome]

Hi

You don`t have to play the game as "Type 5" game type. Just remove the "Type 5" card and play the game as a vanilla game.

[trias10]

Hi

You don`t have to play the game as "Type 5" game type. Just remove the "Type 5" card and play the game as a vanilla game.

I understand now, thank you, I confirm it works.

Just a quick question, but is your version (July 2023) compatible with the following mods (created by Riiaks I think):

- RSN Characteristics Functions
- RSN Core Fixes
- RSN ObjectDC Functions
- RSN Manual Mana Functions

In my old DOTP 2014 install, I had all of these active, along with the Community WAD, and everything worked great. Can I still use these with your version or are they already integrated into your version?

Special question about RSN Manual Mana: I actually prefer to use this as I like having the option of paying mana manually. Can you please let me know if it is safe to use this mod with your version (along with ObjectDC which is a requirement for Manual Mana).

[AngelLestat]

So sorry to hear that Xander passed away.
I remember that he, Firemind and Riak (later neo) help me a lot.
But Mostly Xander. There is a post on his memory or with details on what happen with him?
About your new project, there is a link with all the files (including the dotp2014) that would work on win10?
I still have the riak´s deck builder, the community wad and some decks that I did back then, I was a bit nostalgic and I wanted to see if I could make it work again.
In most of my decks I did not used planeswalkers, so maybe they may work without too much edition?

[etphonehome]

HI
for the complete DOTP2014 version of the comercial game, check;

viewtopic.php?f=109&t=32137

then follow the discord link and check GENERAL.

[Huggybaby]

So sorry to hear that Xander passed away.
I remember that he, Firemind and Riak (later neo) help me a lot.
But Mostly Xander. There is a post on his memory or with details on what happen with him?
About your new project, there is a link with all the files (including the dotp2014) that would work on win10?
I still have the riak´s deck builder, the community wad and some decks that I did back then, I was a bit nostalgic and I wanted to see if I could make it work again.
In most of my decks I did not used planeswalkers, so maybe they may work without too much edition?

Sorry for the late reply. Here you go:
viewtopic.php?p=242554#p242554