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Forum question: Admin History

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:55:16 +0000

Is the "Admin History" meant to be shown to everyone?

Download URL verification

Sun, 06 Feb 2011 06:37:11 +0000

Just a quick question, when the BYOND hub checks if a link is valid ornot, does it look for the extension .zip?

The reason is for my XMLQuest demo. In the website I use, I renamed the extension to .piz (zip backwards) so that the file can be hosted. Last I checked, DS had no problem extracting the source from the renamed extension.

I tried the link and it was still working so I wanted to make sure that the reason why the site says that the file URL is invalid due to the extension being .piz not .zip

Debating to release source

Wed, 02 Feb 2011 13:27:09 +0000

EDIT:
I have decided to formally discontinue the game and not release the source code. Nintendo has launched their official Pokemon TCG Online (PTCGO), currently in beta.
http://www.pokemontcg.com/tc

With school and life, I just don't seem to have much time, let alone working on my PTCG gsmr. I'm debating on whether releasing the source code so people can continue programming PTCG (which I love) or wait for someone to make their own to surpass what I made (which is not hard). Decisions, decisions :S

Reason why I did not program for a while

Thu, 09 Dec 2010 13:35:44 +0000

Maybe after my finals (ends next Friday) I will have time to go through PTCG and fix many of the bugs and introduce a special surprise...maybe

Pokemon TCG - Version 1.2

Mon, 06 Sep 2010 20:56:56 +0000

Hi everyone,
As you may see, I released a beta version for PTCG v. 1.2

This has many bug fixes from previous version, and unfortunately, some new ones.

I would like it if you can report any bugs, problems or suggestions on this post ^_^ Who knows, you may even get rewarded for being so helpful :O!

One bug I have discovered thus far is when the game shuffles your deck, your hand is shuffled in to it as well! This has been rectified for the next version.

Thank you very much for your help ^_^

If you are wondering what PP are, their Pokepoints. They will be like how it is in YuGiOh, you need to earn points to buy decks and boosters. This is not implemented in this beta version but it will be in the next one.

Why is it important to earn PP when you can have almost any card in the Freemode deck? Well, I'll be implementing the RP decks!

Unfortunately, with school and work, the final plan I have for the game will take quite a while to achieve... but this will make things interesting :o

Introducing LIMITED cards

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 03:27:20 +0000

The following Pokemon cards are LIMITED, which means that it can only be used if you have that card - even freemode decks won't allow you to add more than what you have!

___'s Spinarak is obtainable to those who have the Helper Medal (which another opportunity to get it will come by soon *hint hint*). No plan of how to put in ___'s Ariados... for now. I may make it as a part of a tournament prize.

As you can tell, I started working somewhat on my Pokemon TCG game. I fixed up some problems from the previous version and right now, trying to finish off the Gym Challenge series, put in PokePoints (think credits to buy booster packs/themes in the game), a tutorial NPC, a Free-mode NPC challenger (with an upgraded AI system than the current, more simple minded, AI) and a RP-mode NPC challenger.

I am more likely to release a beta version after the Challenge series is put in and the PokePoints implemented though.

Anyways, on to the limited cards:

___'s Spinarak
LIMITED|HOLO card
hp = 60
ele = GRASS
weak = FIRE
retreat = 0
Pokemon power = "Swarm" (If P is <= 2/3 (which is 20 here)), attack damage is doubled.)

Poison Sting (10 dmg)
1 Grass Energy (1G)
Flip a coin. If heads, the Defending Pokémon is now Poisoned.

Leech Life (20 dmg)
1G, 1C (C = colourless aka any)
If the Defending Pokémon is damaged, recover your HP byhalf of the damage caused.

___'s Ariados
LIMITED|HOLO card
hp = 90
ele = GRASS
weak = FIRE
retreat = 2
Pokemon power = "Swarm"

Toxic Jab (30 dmg)
3G
Flip a coin. If heads, the Defending Pokémon is now Severly Poisoned, it now takes 20 Poison damage instead of 10. If tails, the Defending Pokemon is now Poisoned, taking 10 Poison damage.

Toxic Bite (20 dmg)
5G
The Defending Pokémon is now Severly Poisoned, it now takes 20 Poison damage instead of 10. Flip a coin. If heads, the Defending Pokemon is now Paralyzed. If tails, the Defending Pokemon is now Confused.

Edit: If you want to try the buggy version with what I have right now, let me know - but do not expect a helper medal out of it (that would be given out for helping me debug the beta version) .

Clearing a single medal

Sun, 18 Jul 2010 13:32:07 +0000

Thus far, with no procedure in BYOND to directly clear, how can you clear a single medal? Well, two ways.
1) Delete the medal and put it back up (well, I haven;t tried this but it should work in theory)

2) Parse through the medal page to get the list of players who earned the medal and clear it.

Obviously, this is the second method. This is essentially a plug-and-play type of script, the only thing that needs to be changed is the URL to the medal, which the information (particularly the medal #) can be obtained through view source on the medal page.

client/New()
    var
        medal_url_page = "http://www.byond.com/games/[Hub key]/[hub name]?command=view_medals_ajax&medal=[medal #]&full=1"   //  You can get the medal # by looking through the page source on the medal section
        medal_name
        http
        i = 1
    src << "Starting erasing"
    for()//     Infinite loop, like while(1)
        http = world.Export(medal_url_page)     //      Gets the HTML from the medal page
        if(!http)
            CRASH("Is your internet working?")
            return  
        http = file2text(http["CONTENT"])       //      Getting the text of the html
        
        if(findtext(http,"no players have earned this medal"))  //  If this cannot be found, that means all of the medals for that has been gone
            break
        if(!medal_name)     //      Making sure you want to delete the medal
            alert(http)
            //  Parsing for the medal name
            var/n = findtext(http,"title=")+7
            n = copytext(http,n,findtext(http,"\"",n))
            if(alert(src,"Are you sure you want to delete the medal \"[n]\"?","Erase Medal: [n]","?_?","No","Yes") != "Yes")
                break

            medal_name = n
        for()
            //  Clearing the people listed on the medal page
            var/Xkey=findtext(http, "http://www.byond.com/members/")
            if(!Xkey) //  If no more members for that page remains, we break out of the loop to get other people
                break
            Xkey+=29
            var/End = findtext(http, "\"", Xkey)
            Xkey = copytext(http, Xkey, End)
            //  src << "world.ClearMedal([medal_name],[Xkey])"
            if(world.ClearMedal(medal_name,Xkey))
                src << "Erased [Xkey] (#[i++])"
            http = copytext(http, End)
    src << "Ending erasing!"
    return

Clearing the hub scores

Sat, 15 May 2010 15:31:01 +0000

Here you go, three different versions (Personally, version 1 is all you really needed *shrugs*). Not even sure if this is the correct section either...

Version 1: Clearing the game's hub (assuming that world.hub and world.hub_password is already defined):

mob/verb/Clear_Scores()
    if(src.ckey != "key") return  //  Safety
        // The following gets the keys listed and converts it to a list
    var/list/L =  params2list(world.GetScores())
        //  Looping through the keys obtained and nulling the scores
    for(var/K in L)
        world.SetScores(K,"")

Version 2: Defining the HUB + HUB_PASS (Good for accessing other hubs)

    
mob/verb/Clear_Scores()
    if(src.ckey != "key") return  //  Safety
    var/HUB = world.hub
    var/HUB_PASS = world.hub_password
    var/list/L =  params2list(world.GetScores(,,HUB, HUB_PASS))
    for(var/K in L)
        world.SetScores(K,"", HUB, HUB_PASS)

Version 3: Having an input ask you for the hub + hub_password.

mob/verb/Clear_Scores()
    //  In case you want to access another hub then the one you are running, simply redefine
    //  If you want to run for the game itself, you can get rid of the two vars and make it simply var/list/L =  params2list(world.GetScores())
    if(src.ckey != "key") return  //  Safety
    var/HUB = input(src, "What hub address do you wish to clear?", "Clear hub scores", world.hub) as text|null
    if(!HUB) return
    var/HUB_PASS = input(src, "What is the hub's password?", "Clear hub scores") as text|null
    if(!HUB_PASS) return
    
    // The following gets the keys listed and converts it to a list
    var/list/L =  params2list(world.GetScores(,,HUB, HUB_PASS))
    
    // Going through the list of keys and deleting all their scores 
    for(var/K in L)
        world.SetScores(K,"", HUB, HUB_PASS)

Code Rage!

Mon, 12 Apr 2010 02:26:47 +0000

Anyone got any other funny programming links?

Code Rage

Sun, 11 Apr 2010 22:04:16 +0000