I'll just do an awesome mock-up in Paint then for now
It's horrible yes
This would represent the boardside of one player
Where left top denotes the cards on field, left bottom cards in hand, and in the right you have your decks at the bottom
Now the cards in hand show a timer that denotes how close the card is to getting destroyed due to time limits, with them being filled = discarded, reset per round
And left side denotes your three decks you have in play, with them being an early game deck, a mid game deck and an endgame deck, where the bars above them denote the chance of getting a card from said deck
The discarding card feature is interesting, but I wonder about the real-time aspect of it. TCGs are normally turn-based, and everything we have done so far is turn-based. It would take quite some work to support that feature.
And as for the three different decks, it seems like that doesn't really have any real effect compared to only having one deck. The only difference is that now you see the probabilities of getting a card from each deck.
@SimonAndréForsberg I don't know... maybe if the ECS can supply a clock or a scheduled in which we can hook?
@SimonAndréForsberg There is a difference... The game progresses in awesomeness as time goes by, the three decks would have different strengths. The early game deck has weak cards, the mid game has good cards and the end game deck has awesome cards
@skiwi Sure it can, but there should probably be only one call to the client so that does this on its own, to avoid sending a message once ever 100ms or so that reduces the remaining time.
@skiwi How is it determined which deck you draw a card from?
@skiwi I like the idea of timers on the card (reminds me of something like final fantasy 6) but we would have to play test it to know if it is fun. it could be. as for having 3 decks, I'm not so sure about increased probabilities to draw in the mid and late game, but it could work. Maybe instead of that, you could choose to switch from the early game to the mid game deck (and it would discard the early game deck). So you may want to do that earlier or later depending on the circumstances
i have another game idea that I have been messing with where there would be three decks. the problem is that you don't want to get in a situation where there is "not much point" in how you construct the decks. The beauty of hearthstone is that there are so many amazing combinations that come about when you can put any 30 cards together from the whole set. but if we could achieve that same feeling with 3 decks then it is an idea worth exploring for sure
also @skiwi @SimonAndréForsberg if you guys have never heard of Paint.net, that is an amazing program for something very simple that also has stuff like layers and filters
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No... She said wasps here mostly live in garbage and are notorious for causing infections like this. Too bad I did not know that before, else I could have done something earlier
Right. Stupid wasp was wounded and just laying on the carpet in the bedroom. I had gotten up at night and stepped on it. I cussed a bit but did not give more thought after disinfecting my foot.
@bazola Don't worry. You haven't used Java for very long so it's perfectly fine to leave the code in a bad state. I hope you will learn from what I did :)
actually I have only been programming at all for a couple years, and every day it is something more complex than pretty much everything I have done before. slowly I am starting to see ways to reduce duplication
maybe a good combination would be to have health stay reduced during the current turn, and only regenerate at the start of the next turn. the problem as we see it @Phrancis is that if the opponent has one 5/5, and you have a 4/4 and a 1/1 (or even another 4/4), you can't do anything against the opponent
@Phrancis just to be clear, I am not actually saying that anything Needs to change, these are just the thoughts that we have had so far. the game that you played is not yet Totally implemented yet, because trample and mulligan are not yet in place
2. Have three decks, (early game for weak cards, mid game for normal cards, end game for strong cards), of which you randomly pick a card. The chance to pick a card from mid/end game decks increases as a game takes longer. @bazola also got an alternative for that
@Phrancis as the game progressed, the odds would increase that you get a card from the medium or end game deck. at the start you would only draw from the early game deck
Speaking of the creature health... I was just thinking. How about each card taking damage as in Hearthstone, but each card automatically heals 1 health at either the beginning or end of your turn?
There was also an idea where if you attack a weaker creature like 2/2 with a 5/5, the remaining 3 damage would roll over to the player. But I don't know whether or not that would work out
> Client needs to be able to handle `InviteRequest` and `InviteResponse`.
Client A sends `StartGameRequest` with userId for Client B Server sends `InviteRequest` to Client B, with the information that it is Client A who wants to play Client B sends `InviteResponse` to the Server, with a boolean flag for if to accept or decline the invite.
Personally I'm not a big fan of HS as in you cast a really expensive card like Stormwind Champion (6/6/(+1/+1 all creatures)) and have a freaking Mage turn its health to 1, and next turn cast a 1/1 and kill it
@Phrancis lol, I know the feeling. It is annoying, but it's a part of that game. The good part about it is that then you know that the opponent has one such card less after he played it.
@Phrancis Also, instead of playing Stormwind Champion, you might want to play another card first so that you try to get your opponent to play that card on that minion instead of at Stormwind Champion
@Phrancis At the same time, you don't want that there is one "ultimate strategy" that always wins against all other strategies. In Hearthstone there are so many different strategies you can have.
@Phrancis Correct. But feel free to add effects to cards as you wish. Most things shouldn't be too hard to add, and it is something we want to support later anyway.
