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A method to automatically locate and battle monsters #131

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Back in CAAP there was the monster finder which was most useful for finding and 
fighting specific monsers. Something like that would be a nice feature to bring 
into golem.

There are a number of possible methods to achieve this:
1 - Use the monster feeds provided by CA
Pros
  - Monsters can be easily founds
Cons
  - Entries are very limited and become stale very quickly

2 - Use the FB live feeds
Pros
  - Wider selection of monsters to fight
  - Fresher monsters to choose from
Cons
  - FB live feeds are a pain to filter since all the changes they made to them
  - FB may completey change the live feed again with no warning

3 - Walk through each of your army member's monster pages and periodically 
build a "catalogue" of available monsters.
Pros
  - Huge selection of monsters to fight
  - An up to date catalogue can be built in a relatively short time
  - Monster pages unlikely to be changed too much in the near future
  - With a catalogue built in this way it would be possible to fine tune the criteria for monster selection and still have a reasonable chance of finding the required monster (i.e. search for monsters with a specific amount of life left, or a monster with a minimum/maximum time remaining, etc)
Cons
  - Abuse potential is high as gate crashing someones monsters is possible (possibly only join the fight if a CTA, the thumbs up, has been raised already)

Obviously I've missed some pros and cons for each of the above options, and 
possible even some other options themselves, but this was simply intended to 
start a dialogue so feel free to add your own pros/cons/other options

Original issue reported on code.google.com by MrLoq...@googlemail.com on 17 Jul 2010 at 7:49

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
1. They need to fix the internal feed again, as this has been a to-do for ages.

2. As you've said, they're a pain - they're also on a different domain (www 
instead of apps) so no sharing data with them (without doing custom code for 
every browser it's used on).

3. Easy way to not hit a "private" monster - just don't attack it unless it's 
already got someone with a CTA on it ;-)

I want a monster finder, but don't have the time to do anything for it yet - 
some extra bits though -

Using Army to remember who has monsters, means we can also remember who's been 
good for monsters in the past (so check them first, like the favourites for 
other things).

Able to choose any specific type of monster - or even just "time to live" on 
monsters, so you can get some hits in before it dies ;-)

Couple of other bits that would be useful - but the biggest thing is trying to 
work out if yuo're on your own monster page or someone elses as there's nothing 
differentiating them...

Original comment by RycochetTM on 19 Jul 2010 at 1:44

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
On the CAAP forums the suggestion to use the official forums (in particular 
this section: http://www.castleageforums.com/cforum/forumdisplay.php?f=15) was 
raised. This could be quite a powerful way of locating the selected type of 
monster to battle.

Pros
  - Monsters are individually categorised
  - Lists are constantly being added to
  - Monsters listed are more likely to be joined and completed rather than abandoned
  - Not controlled by facebook

Cons
  - CA could shut down the forums at any time (at the risk of greatly annoying their users)
  - Monsters might be put into the wrong section of the forums (the links could be checked before commiting to a monster though)
  - Unscrupulous users could make their links cause the clicker to automatically join the fight (Golem should be able to detect these types of link and fix them before clicking)

As before I may have missed some pros and cons but we need a starting point for 
the discussions

Original comment by MrLoq...@googlemail.com on 1 Aug 2010 at 9:59

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Another thought, the forum could be open on a second tab and updated 
periodically to constantly be ready for newly added monsters. As it's something 
than 'Normal players' can easily do I can't see them being able to call this 
cheating either

Original comment by MrLoq...@googlemail.com on 1 Aug 2010 at 10:11

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Issue 257 has been merged into this issue.

Original comment by RycochetTM on 1 Jun 2011 at 3:57