Goal Verification

[glasnonck]

Lock the first door in Viewing Platform, and verify the player has completed the selected goals of the randomizer before unlocking it. If "Defeat Malak" is the only goal, the door remains unlocked.

Implementation of this feature would require extra testing to ensure the goals can be correctly identified as complete when using all of the glitches in Kotor (esp. hotshot).

[LaneDibello]

So the way I'm deciding to handle this, is whenever a goal is enabled, the door in the viewing platform will be plot-locked. And the on-click event will start a conversation. Inside this conversation will be nodes that do some logic testing for the different goals. How this logic will operate is a matter of on-going research. Once these goals are met, there will be a dialogue option selectable, that opens the door.

[LaneDibello]

I've started work constructing the dialogue trees and deciding on how to check these conditions.

The main issue I'm toying with is how to determine when the Pazaak Champion goal has been met. I have several different ideas for this, but unfortunately none of them are clean and self-isolated like party and star map.

• One solution would be to programmatically go through the modules to modify the pazaak player scripts to update an unused global variable (there are a couple of these in the game, we could look into what goes into adding new global variables if we want to be a bit safer about this). Unfortunately since these globals numbers are only 8bits in length, we would only be able to count the pazaak players visited, and not keep track of which pazaak players were visited (as there are 10 players to beat).
• Another solution could be to award some custom item or token to the player's inventory for each pazaak player they beat, and check for these at the door. (I kinda like this idea)
• I also think I might be capable of creating an entry in the quest log (I'm slightly unsure on this one). We would have to modify the global.jrl file in _newbif.bif. If we were able to figure this out, we could actually create quest for each of the goals.