Tile setup and exploring

[TaylorBoyd]

Couple of thoughts, I was going to work on this specifically this weekend but looks like you got a bit of a head start!

• I think we should make game setup require 2 players minimum, and the rest can be optional
• Maybe this can be added later, but as part of the game or player setup we should have each player pick a color. The color MUST be unique because I was planning on using the color to track population cubes and influence discs on the tiles.
• Can we move explore_tile function to PlayerHelper or GamestateHelper? Not really necessary but that doesn't seem like a setup type command and its more of an actual player action.
• Each faction has an "explore_apt" number which is how many explore actions per turn they get. Planta is currently the only one with 2 but we could make a small loop during Explore to account for the Planta actions. This way it's not special logic just for Planta and could accommodate future custom factions that might also have more explore actions.

[Fingon00]

Gonna be busy today (playing IRL TI4) so can't respond thoroughly, but I concur with these thoughts.

1. Agreed
2. Give them a default color based off faction, and a change color slash command that can be used/built up later. Color choice is a luxury I think can be safely put off until we've got a lot of the essentials down.
3. This push was rather sloppy in terms of proper placement. I agree it needs to be moved out of setup and in general cleaned up.
4. I plan on doing something similar to the buttons for TI actions (tactical/component/strategy/etc) when it comes to actually implementing player turns, and the explore logic can be explicitly handled there. This explore command RN can form a future basis for that, but I expect it to change quite a bit between now and final release. This rn was more a proof of concept of how to do actions based off button presses with python, and how to manipulate the game state generally. Next major step I think is handling adding and removing units to tiles.

[TaylorBoyd]

Yeah color makes sense to me.

My thought for adding population cubes and influence discs is to just fill the empty list slots with the player color in the tile dictionary on the board.

science_pop = ["blue", "empty"] influence_disc = ["blue]

Something like that. Easy to match it to the player and then its a quick check for which color cube and influence disc needs to be rendered in the picture. Curious what you think.

Otherwise this is awesome! Board picture looks great.

[Fingon00]

I figure we'll need to sorta build a json for each specific tile, which contains such info as what defenders it has, what planets (in planet could be contained x,y cord, type, whether its currently occupied), what wormholes it has, etc. which we can load into the games tile dictionary when the tile is initially placed.

[TaylorBoyd]

Looks like Pat has that completed already in his sectors JSON file. When the tile is actually picked and placed then it can open the sectors JSON file and load that into the gamestate board.

[Fingon00]

Ah cool I just found that sector json file (looks like it may need some comma's lol though). Yeah that's what I was envisioning. I'll see if I can make my methods load those into the game map, and I'll see if I can add an /add /remove population command