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Need help on decks for the AI

Postby Shatterhouse » 21 Jun 2011, 23:55

You can probably guess that I've got a decent number of new cards ready to put into some custom decks in a custom campaign. But there's a problem, and the solution is probably something very simple that I've overlooked.

The AI does weird things when it plays with one of my custom decks. It plays land cards fine, and it is capable of playing nonland cards. But sometimes it'll sit there and think for a few seconds, then I'll hear that light 'woosh' sound as if it played a card, but it doesn't actually play anything. Other times it is capable of doing things that are supposed to be impossible, like casting direct damage spells targeting things in my hand, graveyard, and library.

Here's how I've been troubleshooting with the DLC_1000 sample (note that the one deck included in the DLC_1000 sample works fine):
1.) Confirm all decks use the same DATASET, "XMP".
2.) Confirm all cards' text is in the text_dueltime/XMP_CARD_TEXT excel file.
3.) Confirm the XMP dataset includes that XMP_CARD_TEXT excel file.
4.) Confirm that file has been compiled into .bsf files.
5.) Confirm all cards have the XMP in their expansion field.
6.) Confirm the AI opponent file has the correct deck assigned to it.
6a.) Same for the Campaign file.

Any other ideas? I'm at the point where all I have to do is play these decks against each other to see if they're actually balanced and fun, and then I can put together a release.
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Re: Need help on decks for the AI

Postby Marcel Costa » 03 Aug 2011, 04:30

Hi, I actually don´t know how to mod thing in AI on this level, I´m sorry I couldn´t help much;
On the other hand I am working to unify all campaign AI and custom decks to the same DATASET in order to make AI respond propperly and not just freeze or play stupid.
I learned that just changing the DATASET of AI decks do not work for me, however changing my deck DATASET to "Chandra" for example did work but I had no access to the text files in my cards while playing.
Do you know what could I do to entirelly re-set the AI & Custom decks (and maybe altering/creating some _CARD_TEXT files)?
Meanwhile I will continue making tests here in order to learn what can be changed and what do not work.

Thanks
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