Gandalf's Crazy Solo Games

[Gandalf Parker]

Jack_Trowell said:
Just another thing oh mightly Gandalf, Lord of Eternal Games, Master of Randomness, do you think that extending my perl conversion is useful ?

Totally. Perl is also compatable to all three OS's that the game runs on. And its raw script that is fairly easy to read and edit if someone wants to. Even non-programmers can do ok editing a script like that. Im just too lazy to move off of basic to perl.

I have several plans, such making the random commanders depend on the province type(s) (for exemple no random commander and units drowning in a sea province, and thematically appropriate monsters in forests/moutains, maybe an increased chance of lootable treasures in caves (more commanders and monsters with magic items), ...

But for such a project, I would need to parse the complete unit list and choose wich units could go to wich terrain type, and others hings like that.

Been there. But the bit-math for terrains was a headache. Also logical placements needs a database. I think there are threads in the Dom2 forum where I asked if someone would be interested in going thru all of the monsters/units and assigning tags for terrain and types (woodland, avian, winged, and commander for instance). I started too but like most of my projects it nevr got finished.

It's not the programming by itself that worry me, it's the time to process the huge amount of raw data in dom3.

I can provide a raw list from the game, such as all units. But its just name and number, no data.

Note : maybe this thread would be more appropriate in the mod/maps subforums ? What do you think ?

Its ok that it started here but splitting it would be good if you want to continue the project. I tend to leave the players comments here and pursue the planning stuff in the mod/map forum. By the way, you might take a look at
http://www.dom2minions.com/SemiRandom.shtml
Or actually any of the dropped projects at
http://www.dom2minions.com

Gandalf Parker