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GameModes for challenge-maps #106

Open hajo4 opened 10 years ago

hajo4 commented 10 years ago

I don't see how to implement the GameModes (except for Urban/Suburban), i.e. day/rushhour, time/passengers etc. Maybe this is just an issue with the documentation...

Also, when/how would the passenger-mode end, if one of the trains does not deliver its passenger ? (E.g. a train stuck in a loop, or blocked in a traffic-jam)

Germanunkol commented 10 years ago

The passenger game mode would never end in this case, you're right. That's one of the reasons why the server runs a time limit game mode rather than a passenger limit.

As for how to set the game mode in challenge maps, I don't think there is a way, because the challenge map should, as opposed to a random map, specify the spawning passengers and the winning/loosing condition by itself. So if you want to make a challenge map which acts like "rush hour", you simply spawn more passengers, and if you want a passenger limit, I think you can simply let the user win after a certain amount of passengers...

hajo4 commented 10 years ago

Ok, for passenger-mode to end after x passengers delivered, we just have to spawn at least x+(maxAIs*maxTrains) passengers.

About the other game-modes: I was thinking about using challenge-maps for compete-mode, i.e. what changes would be required to use such a map instead of the random maps.

Germanunkol commented 10 years ago

That would require quite some work, I guess. Challenge maps are designed to be used with only one AI, and since locally, the only AIs you have are the ones you write, I think it wouldn't be worth the trouble to get challenges working with multiple AIs, because then you'd be playing against yourself only...

Or isn't that what you mean?

hajo4 commented 10 years ago

I want "Compete", with custom maps instead of / in addition to random maps. (*) I can run locally all the AIs downloaded from the server, plus the old+new versions of my own AIs. Comparing them on the same map --> controlled, repeatable conditions would be very much worth the trouble.

(*) BTW: some of the random maps look nice, and I would like to have a button "save that map". Cut+paste from the console is not a very elegant solution for this...