Game Coding Q&A

[Sevs]

How does it send information when you play PvP?

[Xenocidius]

What's the AI's priority for discarding cards?

Basically, it goes through all the cards in its hand and assigns them a score based on this formula:

Score = (cost of card)/10 + suspicious

In general, suspicious is 1 if that creature was Nightmared last turn.

However, if the card is Ghost of the Past:

Score = 0

For each card, if its score > (random number between 0 and 1), it will discard it.

If once it has run through all its cards it has not found one to discard, it discards a random card.

Are the order of the cards in the deck predetermined at the beginning of the match, or decided randomly based on which cards are left at the time it is drawn?

Predetermined.

Slightly off topic, but I didn't want to create a new topic for this.
I was about to go to sleep, and suddenly became curious about the [deck] code. I've recently studied all these different types of codes, but haven't really done much application with it, in places like forums.

It seems pretty obvious that they were made by you people, but how? (if you don't mind, and if its not too long..) Can it be used in other forums if wished? Is it a long process of saving each card in the database, giving it a code name, and making sure that they come out as they would in-game?

Nope. Basically, the images are stored as (card code).png in the same directory. A program written by Planplan accesses them and creates an image when the [deck] tag is used. The image is then stored on the server. The tag itself is merely a simple combination of the [img] and [code] tags.

Also, this is for game coding questions, not forum coding questions.

How does it send information when you play PvP?

Through a server. I'll try to find some more information later.

[BluePriest]

What is the "99" skill?
 (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,33085.0/topicseen.html)

[Xenocidius]

What is the "99" skill?
 (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,33085.0/topicseen.html)

That link is broken. In any case, I have no idea.

[furballdn]

What decides your oracle pet? Which ones are more likely to be your pet? What is the % that you get no pet?

[Xenocidius]

What decides your oracle pet? Which ones are more likely to be your pet? What is the % that you get no pet?

Each element has a default pet.

Other: -

Schrodinger's Cat
Virus
-
Gnome Rider
Rustler
Ash Eater
Chrysaora
Photon
Dragonfly
Deja Vu
Parasite
Spark

It then has a 25% chance to pick a different, random pet. Immortal, Devonian Dragon and Fate Egg cannot be gotten as pets. If it does this the pet will be shown as '???'.

So the chance of getting no pet is around 8-9%, and can only happen if you get a Gravity or Other card.

[furballdn]

What determines how much money you get from PVP?

[Xenocidius]

What determines how much money you get from PVP?

Good question is good.

First we must consider a variable called uberfactor, where:

uberfactor = ((your score) - (your opponent's score)) / ((absolute value of your score) + (absolute value of your opponent's score))

If you play in PvP1:

Electrum gained = 90 + floor((1 - uberfactor)*35)

If you play in PvP2:

Electrum gained = 150 + floor((1 - uberfactor)*35)

If you get an Elemental Mastery in PvP1 you gain an extra 20 electrum. If you get an Elemental Mastery in PvP2 you gain an extra 30 electrum.

For example, let's say I have 100000 score and you have -100000, and you beat me in PvP2.

uberfactor = (-100000 - 100000) / (100000 + 100000) = -1.

So you gain 150 + floor((1-(-1))*35) = 220 electrum.

If you got an EM you would gain 250 instead.

[Rutarete]

What determines how much money you get from PVP?

Good question is good.

First we must consider a variable called uberfactor, where:

uberfactor = ((your score) - (your opponent's score)) / ((absolute value of your score) + (absolute value of your opponent's score))

If you play in PvP1:

Electrum gained = 90 + floor((1 - uberfactor)*35)

If you play in PvP2:

Electrum gained = 150 + floor((1 - uberfactor)*35)

If you get an Elemental Mastery in PvP1 you gain an extra 20 electrum. If you get an Elemental Mastery in PvP2 you gain an extra 30 electrum.

For example, let's say I have 100000 score and you have -100000, and you beat me in PvP2.

uberfactor = (100000 - (-100000)) / (100000 + 100000) = 1.

So you gain 150 + floor((1-1)*35) = 150 electrum.

If you got an EM you would gain 180 instead.

What is the floor? A method?

[Xenocidius]

Oh, sorry.

Floor simply means round down. (0.7 -> 0, 1.999999 -> 1), etc.

[BluePriest]

http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,33084.0.html
Thats a new link. Perhaps the link will make it easier to understand.

[Wolfunit]

I am not sure if this was asked already but my question is, How are cards picked for the bonus spin? Is it just like regular spins where it picks X amount of cards or is it from all the rares in-game except of cource nymphs/marks. Also from which pool are the cards picked  for the slot change (Where you can change a slot up to 3 times).