Starting quests with a precon deck [patch]

[Fnoed]

I have attached a patch (renamed to a .txt) against r14520 that adds the option to start a quest with a precon deck, replacing the pool of random cards and removing the starting gold.

It would be great if one of the devs could apply it to main source tree.

(Great work on the UI rehaul, btw. I was quite surprised when I downloaded the beta ~1 month ago.)

[Chris H.]

Hello Fnoed, it is good to hear from you again.

I can give you commit status to our new SVN if you are interested.

[Fnoed]

That would be great. I'm not sure how much free time I have right now, but I can fix some minor problems I am seeing.

[Chris H.]

That would be great. I'm not sure how much free time I have right now, but I can fix some minor problems I am seeing.

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Understood, no problem.

I just added you to the list of approved members to the forge developers group. It might take anywhere from a few minutes to a day or so before you can make a commit.

Feel free to help where ever and when ever you find some free time.

Forge as a project has grown substantially since your UI work on the quest mode.

[Fnoed]

Will I get mail with the password? On googlecode the credentials were autogenerated, but I cannot find a similar functionality on svn.slightlymagic.net.

Forge as a project has grown substantially since your UI work on the quest mode.

Yes, it looks more like a game instead of a badly-written enterprise app.

[Chris H.]

Will I get mail with the password? On googlecode the credentials were autogenerated, but I cannot find a similar functionality on svn.slightlymagic.net.

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I do not think that there is a password and I do not remember getting a mail.

Without the creds you get an error(?) when you commit. Give it a try and see what happens. I will be around for awhile tonight.

[Doublestrike]

Great work on the UI rehaul, btw. I was quite surprised when I downloaded the beta ~1 month ago.

Cheers. Only going to get better

You made quest mode? :kowtow:

[Chris H.]

Great work on the UI rehaul, btw. I was quite surprised when I downloaded the beta ~1 month ago.

Cheers. Only going to get better

You made quest mode? :kowtow:

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No, Rares did the first version and Dennis made the fantasy update.

Fnoed removed the really ugly UI code and changed it to the version that you just replaced. So, Fnoed is the granddad of quest mode UI improvements.

[friarsol]

Fnoed removed the really ugly UI code and changed it to the version that you just replaced. So, Fnoed is the granddad of quest mode UI improvements.

You mean Grandkid?

[Fnoed]

Oh great... My two options are to be either an old geezer or a small child...

But yes, I'll take all blame and none of the glory for the previous Quest UI...

[friarsol]

I was thinking about this recently, so I'm going to semi-hijack this thread since Fnoed's patch covers 1 portion of what I was considering.

I was considering this availability for Starting Quests:

1. Forge Starter Cards + 250 GP (Already exists)
2. Sealed Deck (6 boosters) + 1250 GP (Restricting most expensive sets?)
3. Booster Draft (3 boosters) + 750 GP (Restricting most expensive sets?)
4. Constructed Deck + 0 GP (Fnoed's Patch)

Draft provides less cards, but you basically build a cohesive deck from what you are drafting so you have less useless cards.

We would just have to figure out the logistics of how to spawn off #3. Basically what I was thinking is you try to start a Quest, you make your starter choice, for a Sealed and Forge Starter the cards are generated and fed into your starting pile. For #4 you would just select the Constructed deck and be fine. But #3 would kinda need to wait on a Booster Draft taking place, then spawn the starting cards from that.

Maybe for 2,3,4 you would have to have a pre-created deck (obvious for constructed) of that type that would be loaded in? Although in that case, there would be no way to restrict a user from creating a Beta Sealed deck and starting Quests with Moxen/Lotus. Maybe it's unnecessary to place these restrictions when they could just create a Constructed deck with whatever they want.