Drake has an weakness to pierce, which the goblins use.
On the other hand, it has impact resist and does fire damage,
good against WC and skeletons. Thus the side switch.
Because both are quick units and close to each other it won't
confuse players either.
Changes from the research refactoring can also be applied here:
- only storing sides gold instead of the whole side
- removing helper variable for loop
Then spiders got an extra side
The Lvl 0 ones never pay upkeep and got their own macro
The Lvl 2 Guards got the loyal trait
That way it's clearly communicated that all these units don't pay
upkeep, without being obstrusive about the fact.
not necessary, side effects:
- it's obvious that they don't cost upkeep
- no vision sharing of the caves with the enemies
- can also attack the enemies though that probably won't happen
Killing a guardian (the guards or a spider) punished the player,
because the AI then doesn't need to pay upkeep anymore for that unit.
That has been changed, and as the AI has thus less cost, the income needs
adjustments too:
The following has been taken into account:
- the guardian units had upkeep costs of 7g
- the AI has 3-4 villages, each worthy 1g of village_support
* before turn 7, the AI can't recruit Lv 1 units. From turn 9 it recruits
exclusively Lv 1 units.
* This means in the early game the AI payed just 4g upkeep for the
guardians and when it managed to recruit 3 Lv 1 units it was equal to 7g
- in the late game the AI may need more money in general, as Lv 2 units are
expensive. The fact that the AI gets 50g in turn 17 means that the income
is too low to buy the units normally.
The general idea is to have with this change same amount of money in the
early game and the same or more in the late game.
To address the above:
- 4g less income
- the Lv 3 spider is usually killed in each game, often before turn 7. It's
seen as compensation for the village_gold
- The income of the AI is increased in relation to the turns. From turn 15 on:
Each turn one of the AIs gets +1g income – in average +1g income each 4 turns.
- by building a house between the swamp and the guardian the restriction
could have been bypassed. And because attacking a unit next to the swamp
has higher priority compared to capturing the house it's not very dangerous
- also use the same macro for guardians and leaders movement restrictions
Side 3 is the Saurians, the effect of this is just to have the very first
enemy that appears have blue reins instead of green reins during the
move_unit_fake. Only noticed it because I was adding wmllint:recognize
lines for each side's leader.
Otherwise the shroud doesn't update until the unit moves again. When
teleporting that could lead to the unit being stuck in a shrouded location,
although that's unlike to happen except when running around the map using debug
commands.
In S11, if the player tries to attack Li'sar then there are supposed to be four
events adding extra guards. Two of them didn't trigger, because the [have_unit]
calls were trying to match her id with a typographic quotation mark.
One change in the opposite direction, where the displayed name could have a
non-typographic quotation mark; this might only happen when using choose_level
to reach a scenario with NEED_LISAR before her unit is on Konrad's recall list.
Remove a CLEAR_VARIABLE that was obsolete since 7778e6f4.
Refactor to using location_id for the location of the book, because it appears
multiple times in the .cfg file.
An edge case to this edge case: if DV's turn starts with DV next to the book
and one of DV's units on the book, DV doesn't move until the next turn. This
was also true if the unit moved to attack something, and works in the player's
favor, as it gives Malin an extra turn to grab the book, so I'm treating it as
a feature.
If DV does grab the book, explicitly say in the objectives that it's now a race
to the escape tunnel. The sequence for that is:
* DV takes the book (no messages at all)
* silently update objectives (escape to win, same as Malin taking the book)
* player ends turn
* DV moves, Malin asks if he's going to be left behind
* start of player's next turn: objectives shown (race to win)
