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Viliam - o A video driver's capabilities is a measure of how many card features it supports. Direct rendering (DRI) is a very important feature because it gives any game a huge (if not the most) speedup possible. Video cards DRI are covered by Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDA) which prevent Free/Open ...

David wrote:Thoughts on this idea? Is it the right way to go?

Yes, definitely. I trust your instincts and the reasons you give are serious enough to make a pre 1.0 branch. List 3 features you'd add right now and ask others to do the same

tigrezno - If I read your idea correctly, it is far more expansive than mine. I was looking at the unbalanced map syndrome, you're looking at a whole new way to multiplay.

More and more, players have asked for factions to be 'pure'. To have an all-Elvish faction, an all-Dwarvish faction, and so forth. IMHO, moves toward this kill the fun of multiplayer. It makes multiplayer all about who is fighting in more favorable terrain. If you are Elves, and you get a map with ...

a rule is a rule!!! :D false, and one of the most problematic false beliefs to have ever insulted the wesnoth community. A rule is whatever Dave says it is. if he says there is no problem, there is no problem. :P We develop as we want. We are guided by principles. We are not governed by rules. The ...

Blackbeard, I do think that it might be a good idea to revisit the idea of letting different versions have limited interaction through the server. However the main issue here I think is a UI one: how to convey to users the concept of version and that they cannot play with certain people due to inco...

joshbosh321 - yes, I agree small xp to level does make a difference.
Dacyn - I rarely manage to kill lvl 4 units with lvl 2, but others may do it regularly.

I don't know whether the total wasted xp is high enough to consider changing the system.

Dave - There is no way around incompatible versions playing together. If the rulesets were in WML they could be transferred. If the display was decoupled from the game, the host could do the grunt work and update the other players as 'dumb terminals'. This is not the way Wesnoth has been designed. P...

Maybe you could summarize what the issues you are talking about are? i was wondering if that in the near/far future that when you tried to log onto server and you don't have the most resent vershion that it would automatically start downloading the latest patch. that way you could get on with any v...

I don't know why he said it, but I think thats what he meant. Let;s say a level 1 unit needs 8xp to level and makes a kill worth 16xp. At level 2, the unit needs 200xp to reach level 3. Adding the 8xp reduces the xp to 192. The difficulty in getting 192xp is about the same as 200. At higher levels,...

i was wondering if it would be possible to make it so that the left over XP counts towards the next level so that instead of wasting 8 XP the unit would start with 8/? XP. It is possible, but only if the extra xp made a difference in gaining the next level, which it doesn't. A total xp gained count...

Blackbeard: (1) ..The segregation decision is purely a social decision, not a technical one. Perhaps this should be revisited, I agree with segregating players, but disagree where it occurs. Having a single server will end all the issues a version linked server causes and cleanly decouple the serve...

The problem with this is that Wesnoth is available for multiple platforms: Windows, GNU/Linux, MacOSX, BeOS, FreeBSD, etc. There are numerous different binaries, and it'd be very difficult to co-ordinate. David Yes, that is a problem, but that isn't the real issue. The network system must achieve t...

Here are three strategy examples that avoid both hacking the AI interface and littering the code with if ( nteams ) checks. The examples require changes to the do_xxx() members (not cited as a problem in this thread), but the existing code remains substantially the same. The strategies only focus on...

Invisible Philosopher: You're right, it is a poor example, it tried to show how the AI could become more strategically aware, without affecting other parts of the program. My point was to solve the two objections raised: 1) Test for player count; 2) Code littered all over the program. An algorithm t...