The Sceptre of Fire
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The Sceptre of Fire
This is the main development thread for the mainline campaign The Sceptre of Fire. The original first post for this thread follows.
turin wrote:Following the philosophy of "release early, release often", and my auxilliary to that, "don't give a **** about playtesting" ( ), I have released version 0.0.1 of my dwarvish campaign "the Sceptre of Fire" on the campaign server. There are four three scenarios and one fake scenario so far.
It is rather dialogue intensive (there are 256 lines of WML in the talking scenario), and it may be a bit too much. If you think so, I can cut it down.
Comments?
I played first scenario so far.
There is a bug with the caravans, only the first get loaded and when you return it to the castle you win.
Also the loaded caravan and empty ones remain in the recall list, I think it would be better to remove them since they are useless.
Wesnoth: 0.8.10
Difficulty: easy
There is a bug with the caravans, only the first get loaded and when you return it to the castle you win.
Also the loaded caravan and empty ones remain in the recall list, I think it would be better to remove them since they are useless.
Wesnoth: 0.8.10
Difficulty: easy
This is odd... I'll look at it.theCAS wrote:I played first scenario so far.
There is a bug with the caravans, only the first get loaded and when you return it to the castle you win.
Good idea.theCAS wrote:Also the loaded caravan and empty ones remain in the recall list, I think it would be better to remove them since they are useless.
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I would give the dwarves all the starting villages in the north half of the map, including the northwest part, which is right now wasted space. Jury is still out on balancing and turns.
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You'll have a hard time balancing until I upload new version. ;Dscott wrote:I would give the dwarves all the starting villages in the north half of the map, including the northwest part, which is right now wasted space. Jury is still out on balancing and turns.
Which I will soon.
I agree with giving dwarves those villages, but i forgot how. Next update (probably tonight) will have it done...
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I saw the single-caravan bug and I was just wondering how I would be able to shell out 80 gold for caravi and still have enough gold for any kind of fighting force. I did ok with my stagger strategy but I don't think I could have sustained it. I'm not down with no recruiting in scenario 2(3). You really can't fight with an army of thunderers (if you knew to recruit a lot in scenario 1) but fighters don't last long against ogres and trolls.
The dwarvish council map is nicely done, by the way.
The dwarvish council map is nicely done, by the way.
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This seems like a fun campaign with a great concept.
So, a couple of things
1. I don't there is too much talking yet, but as in other campaigns, the dialogue might wear thin after playing for the 10th time.
2. I won the first scenario, but not the way it stated it would be won. I only got the first caravan of gold to my keep, and I won. Which is just as well, because
a) it took me until turn 23 to return
and
b) It only let me fill up my first caravan with gold. The others reached Haldric II's keep and nothing happened.
3. The AI ally acted a bit funny on the first scenario. Is it programmed to retreat at night?
4. In the third scenario (second playable), I couldn't recruit, only recall. Was that the intention?
5. I love the caravan graphic! I like the caravan idea. There could be a lot of scenarios based around this unit.
6. The portrait of Konrad being used for the Haldric portrait: does that fit?
So, a couple of things
1. I don't there is too much talking yet, but as in other campaigns, the dialogue might wear thin after playing for the 10th time.
2. I won the first scenario, but not the way it stated it would be won. I only got the first caravan of gold to my keep, and I won. Which is just as well, because
a) it took me until turn 23 to return
and
b) It only let me fill up my first caravan with gold. The others reached Haldric II's keep and nothing happened.
3. The AI ally acted a bit funny on the first scenario. Is it programmed to retreat at night?
4. In the third scenario (second playable), I couldn't recruit, only recall. Was that the intention?
5. I love the caravan graphic! I like the caravan idea. There could be a lot of scenarios based around this unit.
6. The portrait of Konrad being used for the Haldric portrait: does that fit?
Hitting "Esc" bypasses dialogue.Glowing Fish wrote:This seems like a fun campaign with a great concept.
So, a couple of things
1. I don't there is too much talking yet, but as in other campaigns, the dialogue might wear thin after playing for the 10th time.
a) the turn limit will be increasedGlowing Fish wrote:2. I won the first scenario, but not the way it stated it would be won. I only got the first caravan of gold to my keep, and I won. Which is just as well, because
a) it took me until turn 23 to return
and
b) It only let me fill up my first caravan with gold. The others reached Haldric II's keep and nothing happened.
b) has been fixed
No, but since its lawful it would normally.Glowing Fish wrote:3. The AI ally acted a bit funny on the first scenario. Is it programmed to retreat at night?
No.Glowing Fish wrote:4. In the third scenario (second playable), I couldn't recruit, only recall. Was that the intention?
Graphic was taken from Flight to Freedom with minor modifications. Glad you liked the concept, though.Glowing Fish wrote:5. I love the caravan graphic! I like the caravan idea. There could be a lot of scenarios based around this unit.
No. The thing is I can't think of a unit that would work for him other than Lord or Noble Lord... both of which have portraits.Glowing Fish wrote:6. The portrait of Konrad being used for the Haldric portrait: does that fit?
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Why isn't template.cfg commented out?
Where is the Dwarvish Smith?
Searching for a Stone:
But, I do like the premise of this campaign.
Where is the Dwarvish Smith?
Searching for a Stone:
crying out for help
Why do use a map in Gathering Materials, which is supposed to use a random generator?Yes. How else would it possess such powers?
But, I do like the premise of this campaign.
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I thought I deleted it.MadMax wrote:Why isn't template.cfg commented out?
It doesn't exist yet. I still need graphics.MadMax wrote:Where is the Dwarvish Smith?
Will be fixed.MadMax wrote:Searching for a Stone:crying out for helpYes. How else would it possess such powers?
Because I based it on the Sceptre of Fire map, which does the same thing.MadMax wrote:Why do use a map in Gathering Materials, which is supposed to use a random generator?
If it's not necessary, I'll remove it.
Good.MadMax wrote:But, I do like the premise of this campaign.
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It is . It guarantees that player 1 comes from the southwest.turin wrote:If it's not necessary, I'll remove it.
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Because Duelist is not on the recruit list.Glowing Fish wrote:Another thing: in the first scenario, why does the AI ally only recruit Longbowman and Dragoons?
Swordsman would get chewed to pieces by the archers, but may Duelists would make sense?
Haldric is supposed to be being sort of... stupid.
Oh, and if the caravans aren't moving, it means you have Flight to Freedom installed. F2F does not use "#ifdef"s when including the units, which means everyone gets them, and my caravan uses the same ID as his.
The easiest way to fix it is to move the #ifdef if the Flight_Freedom.cfg file up about ten lines.
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