Decks for the AI

[Chris H.]

I made the deck Ned Flanders 1 a lot easier (a turn four Artisan of Kozilek is too much).

Maybe I should start modifying the SVN files directly. What do I have to do to get the rights? Send a message to DennisBergkamp?

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Thank you. I may be able to merge it in to the SVN today.

Yeah, having the ability to merge your own material into the SVN can be empowering. Before the SVN I would submit a lot of material to Dennis. He did his best to merge this work on my behalf. Sometimes people get busy or they can sometimes forget or get confused.

PM your google email account to Dennis and he will give you commit status. You will need to have Eclipse and a matching pair of Subversion and Subclipse. Once you have the pieces and commit status you should be good to go.

[Sloth]

Thanks for merging all the stuff Chris!

PM your google email account to Dennis and he will give you commit status. You will need to have Eclipse and a matching pair of Subversion and Subclipse. Once you have the pieces and commit status you should be good to go.

Arg, now I remember why I didn't apply for commit status before. Eclipse slows my laptop down to a crawl. Maybe I should buy me a new one this year.

[Chris H.]

Thanks for merging all the stuff Chris!

PM your google email account to Dennis and he will give you commit status. You will need to have Eclipse and a matching pair of Subversion and Subclipse. Once you have the pieces and commit status you should be good to go.

Arg, now I remember why I didn't apply for commit status before. Eclipse slows my laptop down to a crawl. Maybe I should buy me a new one this year.

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You are welcome. I merged the revised Ned Flanders 1 deck into the SVN.

You may want to try Eclipse again with the newer source code. Dennis split up the original CardFactory file into several smaller factories. The original CardFactory file was so large that it would slow down the fastest computer and cause the occasional crash. Things are much improved.

Silly Freak also placed the files into packages and this also appears to speed things up a bit. Things have really improved since the old days when Dennis would include the source code along with the beta releases.

[Sloth]

You may want to try Eclipse again with the newer source code. Dennis split up the original CardFactory file into several smaller factories. The original CardFactory file was so large that it would slow down the fastest computer and cause the occasional crash. Things are much improved.

Sounds good, I'm gonna make a try this weekend.

[Chris H.]

Sounds good, I'm gonna make a try this weekend.

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If you have any questions, just ask and we will try to help you get started. If you use windows then you may want to visit Snacko's topic and download his scripts. This will allow you to easily download the current source onto your computer and the script will use Eclipse to auto build the source into a jar file.

Once you have this much working, you can then launch Eclipse and experiment with the most recent source ... this may be the easiest way to get started.

[Sloth]

Once you have this much working, you can then launch Eclipse and experiment with the most recent source ... this may be the easiest way to get started.

I think I will mostly stick to modifying decks and cards.txt. But let's see.

I made a new deck for the AI centered around Megrim and Liliana's Caress. I will try to add it once I get started:

4 Underground Sea
4 Badlands
4 Volcanic Island
4 Crumbling Necropolis
2 Swamp
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
4 Megrim
4 Liliana's Caress
4 Burning Inquiry
1 Wheel of Fortune
4 Wheel and Deal
1 Windfall
4 Blightning
4 Hymn to Tourach
4 Stupor
4 Sinkhole
3 Rain of Tears
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Damnation

[Chris H.]

I think I will mostly stick to modifying decks and cards.txt. But let's see.

I made a new deck for the AI centered around Megrim and Liliana's Caress. I will try to add it once I get started:

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I will not merge this new deck of yours and will let you add it yourself.

The deck name needs to be added to the easy.txt, medium.txt, or hard.txt file or the deck will not show up during a quest.

[Corwin72]

Daren Stephens 3 is rough. It is kind of unfair that he has moxes...

[Chris H.]

Daren Stephens 3 is rough. It is kind of unfair that he has moxes...

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I copied this deck over to the constructed mode deck editor and I took a look at it. We tend to add moxes to all of the hard decks, the decks that end in the number 3. It helps to make these decks harder to beat.

There is only one Tezzeret the Seeker in this deck, although one game the computer turned several mox into 5/5 creatures and attacked. I still have scars from that game.

We could make this a quest assignment deck but we already have one in place that includes artifacts and Master of Etherium. There are four Master of Etherium in the Daren Stephens 3 deck. I guess that we could replace one or two of them with something else.

[Sloth]

Daren Stephens 3 is rough. It is kind of unfair that he has moxes...

I always try to make the hardest deck possible (under the restriction of the Vintage restricted list), when creating the hard decks. If this deck is too unfair, I really think we should have a fourth difficulty level (besides the quest decks).

By the way Chris:
When I try to commit via TortoiseSVN I always get the message:

Code: Select all

Command: Commit 
Error: Commit failed (details follow): 
Error: Server sent unexpected return value (405 Method Not Allowed) in response to   
Error: MKACTIVITY request for '/svn/!svn/act/3ed49723-2a46-f644-ac56-fe4cb2d0b26d' 


And I never have to type in a password. Do you have any ideas what I do wrong?

[Chris H.]

I always try to make the hardest deck possible (under the restriction of the Vintage restricted list), when creating the hard decks. If this deck is too unfair, I really think we should have a fourth difficulty level (besides the quest decks).

By the way Chris:
When I try to commit via TortoiseSVN I always get the message:

Code: Select all

Command: Commit 
Error: Commit failed (details follow): 
Error: Server sent unexpected return value (405 Method Not Allowed) in response to   
Error: MKACTIVITY request for '/svn/!svn/act/3ed49723-2a46-f644-ac56-fe4cb2d0b26d' 


And I never have to type in a password. Do you have any ideas what I do wrong?

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I was trying to make a merge this morning and kept getting a similar error with Eclipse and Subversion. It took several tries over several hours before the SVN decided to accept my material. It does not happen too often.

I seem to remember someone else had some problems at first. He was using:

http://cardforge.googlecode.com

rather than the required:

https://cardforge.googlecode.com

That https makes all the difference. Make sure you have that entered correctly

[DennisBergkamp]

Daren Stephens 3 is rough. It is kind of unfair that he has moxes...

I always try to make the hardest deck possible (under the restriction of the Vintage restricted list), when creating the hard decks. If this deck is too unfair, I really think we should have a fourth difficulty level (besides the quest decks).

By the way Chris:
When I try to commit via TortoiseSVN I always get the message:

Code: Select all

Command: Commit 
Error: Commit failed (details follow): 
Error: Server sent unexpected return value (405 Method Not Allowed) in response to   
Error: MKACTIVITY request for '/svn/!svn/act/3ed49723-2a46-f644-ac56-fe4cb2d0b26d' 


And I never have to type in a password. Do you have any ideas what I do wrong?

I think Daren Stephens 3 is fine, hard decks should be hard
Some of the Quest Assignments we could make even more difficult.

As for the SVN trouble, yes, this looks like you're using http instead of https.
Let me know if that still doesn't work (although I've never used TortoiseSVN for committing, maybe try Eclipse with subclipse instead).

[Sloth]

I seem to remember someone else had some problems at first. He was using:

http://cardforge.googlecode.com

rather than the required:

https://cardforge.googlecode.com

That https makes all the difference. Make sure you have that entered correctly

Yes, this was the mistake. Thank you so much!

I added the Megrim Deck as Saruman 3.

[Chris H.]

I just updated my local copy and see that you were successful. Good job.

I see that you also found the place to add in the brief opponent deck description. At some point you might develop a desire to try to add in a special quest assignment. There is no hurry, and Dennis and I can provide some info if it is needed.

Quest assignments are a little more work. It took me a while to figure out what sort of mods had to be made to be able to easily test my quest assignment deck.

[Sloth]

I just updated my local copy and see that you were successful. Good job.

Why does my revision (r1459) not appear in the updates list (http://code.google.com/p/cardforge/updates/list)?

Do I have to do something to make it appear there?