RanGame (random game generator project)

[Gandalf Parker]

The DomMap project is going along well and able to create decent playable maps for Dom2. This thread is to discuss side programs such as I run which add randoms to the .map text file controlling the game which is played on a map. Examples of a randomized game can be found at my site such as the "Poke in the Eye"...
http://www.techno-mage.com/~dominion...2/Poke_Eye.map
which uses the eye.tga everyone gets with both the demo and the full game. It is re-randomized daily at my site scattering completely new surprises.


Psuedo-Code
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copy the old .map to new keeping all of the #terrain and #neighbor
open new .map for append
add a line of "------------------" just for clarity between old and new

if the person adds AIs this randomly allies some
loop 13 times
Ally1 = random(0-17)
Ally2 = random(0-17)
if Ally1=Ally2 then redo
print "#allies " Ally1 Ally2
next loop

loop 1 to MaxProvinces how many provinces on the image
print "#setland " loop
X=random(0-50)
if X 0 then
print "#lab"
print "#temple"
print "# fort " random(0-24)
if X = 1 then fort and lab
if X = 2 then fort and temple
if X = 3 then lab and temple
if X = 4 then fort
if X = 5 then lab
if X = 6 then temple
if X = 7 then fort
if X = 8 then temple
if X greater than 8 then nothing
done with X now

Comndr = random(0 to MaxUnits) I think thats 1064 now?
BodyGrd = Comndr +or- random(1 to 5)
UnitType = Comndr +or- random (1 to 10)
print "#commander " Comndr
print "#randomequip 4"
print "#bodyguards " BodyGrd random(1 to 5)
print "#units " UnitType random(1 to 15)
next loop do the next province

[ February 26, 2004, 15:12: Message edited by: Gandalf Parker ]

[Leif_-]

I've implemented your algorithm in a perl module, and also added support for it in the run_dom_map.pl script (by using the option "-Rm")

You can find all the scripts I've worked on as a zip-file at http://home.Online.no/~rmoldskr/Dominions/DomUtils.zip

[Gandalf Parker]

Hmmm merged with the random generator would knock one one problem I thought of. If anyone does a standalone it would probably be a good "user friendly" thing to make it do a renaming of a map file. That way if the person runs it on eye.map the will still have eye.map and also eyex.map which will let them play in MP games later without messing things up.
Should probably also modify the #dom2title in the file accordingly. The targa doesnt need renamed by this program.

[Leif_-]

Originally posted by Gandalf Parker:
Hmmm merged with the random generator would knock one one problem I thought of. If anyone does a standalone it would probably be a good "user friendly" thing to make it do a renaming of a map file. That way if the person runs it on eye.map the will still have eye.map and also eyex.map which will let them play in MP games later without messing things up.
Should probably also modify the #dom2title in the file accordingly. The targa doesnt need renamed by this program.

I didn't think about that. Right now the generator just removes the old .map file and replaces it with a new. I'll change it so it creates two .map files when I get home from work.

[Gandalf Parker]

OK a stepup that I added to mine. Sometimes I wanted to play a particular nation as being majorly boosted so I added a random to decide whether or not one of the special locations should cause a #own command to print. Such as selecting Ulm and having each fort/lab/temple site randomly decide whether to also make it an Ulm owned site.

Should I do the step-ups one at a time? they are easier to follow and we can discuss them that way. Or should I just to the "totally insane no one would possibly want to play this" list of all the step-ups including the ones I havent gotten to work right yet?

Is anyone lurking this thread who has a request?

[ February 27, 2004, 15:49: Message edited by: Gandalf Parker ]

[Leif_-]

Originally posted by Gandalf Parker:
OK a stepup that I added to mine. Sometimes I wanted to play a particular nation as being majorly boosted so I added a random to decide whether or not one of the special locations should cause a #own command to print. Such as selecting Ulm and having each fort/lab/temple site randomly decide whether to also make it an Ulm owned site.

Should I do the step-ups one at a time? they are easier to follow and we can discuss them that way. Or should I just to the "totally insane no one would possibly want to play this" list of all the step-ups including the ones I havent gotten to work right yet?

Is anyone lurking this thread who has a request?

Just do the full list - that way I can choose the ones I think are easiest to implement first.