Re: Second tutorial map

[Jens Granseuer <jensgr@xxxxxxx>]

On 06.02.2005 23:36, The Fox wrote:

First off, in the exported mission the action for the research event
is 41 (and thus invalid) while it should have been 1. Probably caused
by a little bug I'm about to commit a fix for.

> With the new Research event complete (I noticed that it's in the CVS 
> just today) I completed the second map. Please play it and post any 
> suggestions. The messages are not done yet so my intentions can be 
> not-that-clear. Comments welcome.

The map is currently broken if you lose one of the tanks in the first
battle. I haven't actually checked, but what happens if you lose the
infantry and don't have the resources to build a new one?

Also, I'm not sure how a newbie would feel with the flood of tanks
coming out of the enemy shop. Maybe you should reduce the rate a bit
and only have a new unit each other turn or stop after five or so.
Would be nice to have a newbie actually play it and tell us what he
thinks, though...

Overall, the mission feels pretty short to me, but I don't have any
great ideas how to change that without adding a completely different
topic.

Then, you seem to using quite a lot of unnecessary dependencies.
Several of the events use identical triggers, and additionally depend
on each other. The same trigger means that if event A is triggered,
event B is triggered as well. The dependency always duplicates the
result of the original trigger. Now, this doesn't really do any harm,
but checking depndencies is always quite a bit more expensive than
only checking one trigger, so if there's no good reason for
dependencies it's usually better to take them out. If you want to
keep them for the sake of documentation that's okay, but you should
probably comment them out in the final version. (For a small scenario
like this, the effect of dependency or no dependency is probably not
noticeable at all, but we don't want to give bad examples, right? ;-))


On another note, I'm about to commit yet another incompatible change
that'll cause crashes with previous CVS levels and saved games. You
know the drill.

I'd also like to start preparations for 0.4.7 soon. Would be nice
if we could get the second tutorial map in.

Jens