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Title: Colony Game Pack 1 Hard Version!
Post by: spirit1flyer on November 05, 2005, 03:11:57 PM
I have remade the 2 colony games I posted and made them much harder.  I should have a release of the harder version of the first pack. Up at no later then next wednesday

spirit
Title: Colony Game Pack 1 Hard Version!
Post by: siqueule on November 07, 2005, 06:34:38 AM
"much harder"? you have add new objectives?
Title: Colony Game Pack 1 Hard Version!
Post by: spirit1flyer on November 07, 2005, 08:52:15 AM
its mostly just added weather with a twist  ;)
 
Title: Colony Game Pack 1 Hard Version!
Post by: Betaray on November 07, 2005, 09:55:25 AM
heh, I get it, twist, as in twister, wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Title: Colony Game Pack 1 Hard Version!
Post by: leeor_net on November 07, 2005, 08:47:47 PM
Maybe. It could simply mean aggressive weaher phenomena
Title: Colony Game Pack 1 Hard Version!
Post by: Stormy on November 07, 2005, 09:31:30 PM
Heh, sirbomber should get a kick out of this...


Don't forget your heat-seeking Vortexes and blight!  <_<

Stormy :op2:
Title: Colony Game Pack 1 Hard Version!
Post by: spirit1flyer on November 07, 2005, 09:57:17 PM
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Don't forget your heat-seeking Vortexes and blight!
I would not add anything that would end the game for the player. Like the blight or Vortexes that would not go away. Its going to be hard but not unbeatable
Title: Colony Game Pack 1 Hard Version!
Post by: Betaray on November 07, 2005, 10:11:18 PM
so what can we expect from this new harder version?
Title: Colony Game Pack 1 Hard Version!
Post by: spirit1flyer on November 07, 2005, 10:25:06 PM
more meteors then in all of the other colony games and they are competely random  ;) and then if I get the code to do it, You will see vortexes that could appear anywere on the map at random times  B)
maybe earthquakes and storms but I have not tried adding them yet
Title: Colony Game Pack 1 Hard Version!
Post by: Betaray on November 07, 2005, 10:59:10 PM
do you have the size of the metiers being random as well, or is it just raining down eather large or small ones?
Title: Colony Game Pack 1 Hard Version!
Post by: spirit1flyer on November 07, 2005, 11:11:45 PM
if I set it to a size 5 it will throw out anything from a 1 too a 5 so I don't have any control of the size of the meteor. So yes it is random
Title: Colony Game Pack 1 Hard Version!
Post by: zigzagjoe on November 07, 2005, 11:29:22 PM
you know, you can make them all into one file w/ diff difficaulty settings.
Title: Colony Game Pack 1 Hard Version!
Post by: Betaray on November 08, 2005, 09:39:50 AM
1 to 5?

ive only seen small and large ones, i didnt know that they had inbetween
Title: Colony Game Pack 1 Hard Version!
Post by: spirit1flyer on November 08, 2005, 10:45:32 AM
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you know, you can make them all into one file w/ diff difficaulty settings.

Yea I knew that could be done but  I didn't know how it was done  :unsure:  otherwise I would have made it that way

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1 to 5?

ive only seen small and large ones, i didnt know that they had inbetween

I think there is only three pictures, small, bigger and large but I could be wrong


spirit
Title: Colony Game Pack 1 Hard Version!
Post by: spirit1flyer on November 08, 2005, 11:49:46 PM
a little sneak peek at how my first test went  :P

I started out by sending my units to build a colony. Note: I am playing at speed 1
now I will jump to where I have all the buildings up,  I have only lost 2 units to meteors so far.  So I start mining and when I had enough ore, I started building a second CC.
I got the CC loaded on a Convec, ordering it to go to a spot in the corner. "The least likely spot to get hit by meteors"
And just after the Convec moves 5 tiles away. My CC and Structure factory get hit with a meteor, Nearly destorying my Factory.
So to jump ahead to the end. "I've lost about half of my units by now"
I see a vortex form just next to my mine. And that ended my ability to win. By cutting my ore supply  <_<

Spirit

 
Title: Colony Game Pack 1 Hard Version!
Post by: Hooman on November 09, 2005, 04:49:49 PM
There is a function on the Player class that returns the difficulty setting for that player. (Player.Difficulty() I think). It should be a value from 0-2 if I remember correctly. You can just use this to determine which difficulty setting to select internally. Usually, there is a switch statement, or a few if statements that setup initial resources based on the difficulty. Then there might also be extra disaster triggers that get setup for harder difficulty settings.

Something along the lines of:

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switch(Player.Difficulty())
{
case 0: // Hard or easy? I can't remember
// Put code for this difficulty setting here
break; // We don't wan't to continue on into the next case

case 1: // Medium
// Code for next difficulty settings goes here
break; // (Hmm, I almost forgot this one)

case 2: // Easy or Hard? Note: You can also use "default:" here instead of "case 2:"
// Code for final difficulty setting goes here
break; // This one isn't really needed, but why not? it's probably safer to have it here just in case you edit code and forget about it.
}
Title: Colony Game Pack 1 Hard Version!
Post by: Betaray on November 09, 2005, 04:54:37 PM
so to make a coloney game, you have to know all this??

whoa too advanced for me, ill leave it to the experts
 
Title: Colony Game Pack 1 Hard Version!
Post by: spirit1flyer on November 09, 2005, 05:01:45 PM
Well I am mostly copying and pasting code but there is some stuff I am learning on my own ;)

Its not to hard to learn  :)  
Title: Colony Game Pack 1 Hard Version!
Post by: leeor_net on November 09, 2005, 06:52:33 PM
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so to make a coloney game, you have to know all this??

To make any map you need to do at least a little bit of coding. Of course, multiplayer maps won't necissarily be utilizing the difficulty settings so chances are that the difficulty code can be left out of the map's DLL file.
Title: Colony Game Pack 1 Hard Version!
Post by: Slaughter (PhodoX) on September 23, 2006, 03:56:10 PM
Pardon my question... But there's COMBAT involved here?
Title: Colony Game Pack 1 Hard Version!
Post by: Betaray on September 23, 2006, 04:50:30 PM
omg, check the date, this thread is almost a year old

please dont necro old topics
Title: Colony Game Pack 1 Hard Version!
Post by: Slaughter (PhodoX) on September 23, 2006, 11:08:38 PM
Sorry friend, I'm just new where, and I've forgot to see the date. I thought it was very recent, for it was one of the top topics on the list.
But, please, can you anwser my question?
Title: Colony Game Pack 1 Hard Version!
Post by: Sirbomber on September 24, 2006, 06:54:27 AM
No. I'm pretty sure you just sit there and try to get 800 colonists on Eden 1 or something.
Title: Colony Game Pack 1 Hard Version!
Post by: Betaray on September 24, 2006, 09:09:19 AM
of corse there is combat, what colony game dosnt have combat?
Title: Colony Game Pack 1 Hard Version!
Post by: BlackBox on September 24, 2006, 12:55:35 PM
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of corse there is combat, what colony game dosnt have combat?
Well, none of the dynamix made ones do insofar as combat being necessary to win the mission.

Yes, I know, in Colony Builder 2 you can go pound the Eden base if you want.. but it won't help you win.
Title: Colony Game Pack 1 Hard Version!
Post by: dm-horus on September 25, 2006, 03:00:35 AM
why are all these old topics appearing on the new thread list?
Title: Colony Game Pack 1 Hard Version!
Post by: spirit1flyer on September 26, 2006, 01:45:24 PM
because now and then someone stops in and see's what I am trying to do, and asks questions.  
I don't mind people posting in my little section here and any post that is a year or more older, Because someone might have good idea's or their just grave diggers.  But if the later, I think that type of thing matters more in area's like the news forum or the general forum.
Maybe he downloaded this and just got confused by it or something. So he had a question Rather then ask in a new thread he just asked in the older one dealing with it.

I am still working on this project so don't think its dead or get mad at people posting in here please, Its very helpful to them and to me when they post.