Recent changes to feature-requests

Linux port

Maarten Vanraes — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 16:08:41 -0000

Any chance for a linux port?

Rolling Dices animation

tamat — Sun, 03 Jul 2005 10:43:11 -0000

I think the dices look too flat, having a beautiful
board in the middle of the screen its a pity just to
show two small graphics on a corner when a player rolls
the dices.

My idea is to generate the animation of two rolling
boxes with any 3d program with physics options, and
then just capture the movement (not in a video) and
display it in the board when somebody rolls the dices.
Obviously the mapping of the texture in the dice should
change depending on the result we want to have in the
dices.

I know that is a stupid feature but I think It will
help a lot in the way the user feels the game.

Thanks.

Port to Mac &/or Linux - games@pavman.com

Anonymous — Mon, 23 May 2005 17:15:45 -0000

Any chance you have plans to port this to mac & Linux?
Its a great version of the game, I particularly like
the auto-ladder feature. A friend of mine moved to
Germany, and bought a Mac... just hoping there might be
a future version ported over.

Well, thanks for the hard work.

-Andrew Pavlis

Port to Mac &/or Linux

Anonymous — Mon, 23 May 2005 17:14:10 -0000

Well, thanks for the hard work.

-Andrew Pavlis

Starting position selection: No numbers on hextiles

Olaf Noehring — Mon, 12 Apr 2004 09:44:59 -0000

I would like to see the possibility (under VARIANTS for
a game) to switch the time when the numbers which
are placed on the hexgrids are laid down.

The first player might take some advantage from those
numbers, e.g. he will likely place his first house & road
where the chance is higher to get some resources later
(6 and 8 and so on)

It would be great if the user can set this variant that
the numbers are placed AFTER all users have made
their
a) first positioning (house/road) and
b) second positioning (house/road) or
c) leave it like it is - in the very beginning.

Olaf

Computer player / AI

Olaf Noehring — Sun, 11 Apr 2004 13:42:02 -0000

Probably it has been asked for a thousand times yet.

I would like to see a computer player.

To accomplish this you might want to take a look on

http://sourceforge.net/projects/jsettlers/

This seems to be a working version (was for a doctors
degree!)

Olaf

Player Resignation

Kenneth Comer Jr. — Tue, 09 Dec 2003 05:50:55 -0000

To deal with drops, intentional abandonment, or cases
when a player feels that he/she is just marking time
and is hopelessly outclassed, I propose an option for
a very, very limited AI. Yeah, yeah-- 100k lines of
code... I'll peek later and see what I can figure
out. Nonetheless, this LOOKS pretty doable.

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LOGIC FOR THE ai GAME TURN

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>>seven was rolled<<
/^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

*> discard excess <*
repeat until correct number
{
make heap
if tie in heap then discard random from top in heap
else discard max from top in heap
}

vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv/
>> thief placement <<
/^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

foreach TALLY1x(tallycount)
{
TALLY1(a,b) = 0 ;
TALLY2(a,b) = 0 ;
}
foreach players(i)
{

*> to tally counts, add if non-allied <*
*> subtract if allied (i.e., self or team game) <*

count settlements*1*VP(player)
+ cities*2*VP(player) into TALLY1;

count (settlements * 2 + cities * 5)
* absolute( 7 - hex(a,b)=>rollvalue) into TALLY2;

If tie using TALLY1 then
{
if tie using TALLY2 then
{
place in random among max of TALLY1
}
else
{
place in max of TALLY2
}
}
else
{
place in random among max of TALLY1} ;
}

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>> add commodities, gold becomes random of the lowest<<
/^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

*> constants <*
perfects( ore ) = 3;
perfects( grain ) = 2;
perfects( wood ) = 1;
perfects( clay ) = 1;
perfects( wool ) = 1;

while (gold-count--)
{

*> establish preferences <*
foreach commodity-counts(i)
{
preferences(i) = commodity-counts(i) - perfects(i);
}

buy random among the minima for the preferences
}

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>> trade phase <<
/^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

foreach purchasable-commodities(i) = true ;
repeat
{
traded-nothing = true ;
if can build a settlement then
{
build settlement in a random legal location;
traded-nothing = false;
continue;
}
else if can build a city
{
build city in a random legal location;
traded-nothing = false;
continue;
}
else if can build a road;
{
if randompercentage > 50% then continue
build road in a random legal location attached to
a city if possible
traded-nothing = false;
continue;
}
else
{
find x = commodity which can sell the least to the
bank (random among tied, -1 if none can sell);
if x>=0 then
{
find x = commodity which can sell the least to
the bank (random among tied);
mark purchasable-commodities(x) = false;
find y = min among purchasable-commodities;
decrement commodities(x) by bank sale amount;
commodities(y)++;
traded-nothing = false;
continue;
} else continue ;
}

}
until traded-nothing

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LOGIC FOR player GAME TURN: TRADING WITH THE ai

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If a player offers a trade to all players then return.
If player offers a trade to the AI alone then
{
if the player is asking for any component that the
AI does not have, then fail;

assuming the trade went through, if the AI has more
of a deficiency from the perfects then fail;

accept if count of player offer is at least
2 * AI requirement ;

accept that if the deficiency rating is lower after
the proposed trade than before it and the count of
offer is at least 1.5 * AI requirement
}

Idiot Timer

Kenneth Comer Jr. — Tue, 09 Dec 2003 02:25:48 -0000

I would like a reminder to press "end turn" after a
preset period of time during different stages of the
game. This would be set in each players client
profile and not imposed arbitrarily by the host.
These would be accompanied by an audio alert. (I
seperately posted on the s3dconnect feature request
page. I think this design is a little cleaner, more
useful and easier to implement.)

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Alert Timer Presets in Player Profile Dialog Box
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

This could be a seperate dialog box accessed by a "Nag
Timers" button or such...

Alert Conditions:
* nothing-left-to-do [idiot has done trades, can't
buy anything else; might have development card]
* click-commodities [idiot has not clicked on
commodities after trade]
* place-pirate [idiot has not placed pirate]
* spend-gold [waiting on idiot to buy gold]
* build-placement [waiting on idiot to place a built
item]
* long-time-turn-start [trades are still possible,
builds are still possible
* build-only [trades are not possible, builds are]

Options one (set per condition):
audio-alert-level (radio) none Match-Global-Sound
Always
pop-up-nag (checkbox) [asks "end turn? ok/cancel]
If anything but "none" && !pop-up-nag then
first-nag-after (Editbox numeric)
repeat-nag-after (Editbox numeric)
If repeat-nag-after then
repeat-forever (checkbox)

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
FYI: the worst "idiot" offender I have ever met,
especially with regard to the "nothing-left-to-do"
condition is myself.
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Maps3D: Store, load, and use rotation and depth settings

Scott McDermott — Sat, 22 Nov 2003 20:43:05 -0000

These are already stored in the CS3DMap object and
serialized to the m3d file. I think that I just need to set
them correctly...

Note, the drawing function is probably just looking at
the CS3DMap object in the mapdatabase instance...

C&K: Add Barbarians tab and OpenGL window

Jason Fugate — Thu, 06 Nov 2003 20:16:42 -0000

This will be a new slidey window on the right side that
keeps track of barbarian progress and total knight
strength on the board. Later on, another tab will keep
track of city advances for every player.