AoD - v 1.4.6

[GameCharmer]

Age of Dragons 1.4.6 has been released!


Increased the cost of everything in the market. The new formula is
BASE COST + Number of Purchases

This slows down the insane over-usage of refill stamina. A person can refill stamina and generate enough coins (if not more) to refill stamina again, over and over and over, gaining an infinite number of levels and refills. This is a major flaw in the game engine.

Quests now progress in difficulty as well. This is currently only accessible via the database. The ACP portion, user submit portion, and all proper language keys are coming in the next release.


Added in the ability to kill off units (starting with villager on up) to balance incoming food vs. units.

Yes, units now starve to death!!! Bwa ha ha ha ha!!!

Also, if you are hand upgrading, make sure to set any negative food values to 0 before the first cron runs or you will probably blow your server up.

[gylippus]

Ok, I installed 1.4.5 and I thought everything was working ok but I had a few issues.

1. I don't seem to be gaining villagers per tic. I gain stamina and other units but no villagers. When you look at the kingdom report it has no number by villagers for the total number of villagers that I have even though I have 10 if you look at the barracks page. There is also no number next to soldiers on the kingdom report but at the bottom of the page it shows my advanced units. If I go to the barracks page it shows I have soldiers. I know for a fact the cron is working so I am not sure what is going on.

2. Could you explain how to gain researchers?

3. On the quest page there are the new options to set number of units for certain quests. How does the .csv file work and where should it go?

4. The guide link is broken and does not go to a page.

5. What program are you using to generate pictures for quests? I like the way your farm looks and the treasure room pictures.

6. That is it for now, thanks for all of the hard work.

7. Btw, any news on the adr front? I wish to heck someone would make a mod for phpbb3 to make an entire rpg. That is my dream.

8. OH, I still need to upload that install file for 1.4.5 that I fixed.

[GameCharmer]

1. I don't seem to be gaining villagers per tic. I gain stamina and other units but no villagers. When you look at the kingdom report it has no number by villagers for the total number of villagers that I have even though I have 10 if you look at the barracks page. There is also no number next to soldiers on the kingdom report but at the bottom of the page it shows my advanced units. If I go to the barracks page it shows I have soldiers. I know for a fact the cron is working so I am not sure what is going on.

The kingdoms page does not display Villagers / Soldiers / Researchers, as those are basic units. I suppose I could add those values in though if you want them.
If you are not gaining villagers, you need to build more houses. The number of houses you have caps the number of total units you can have. Also, you can research House Capacity and increase the capacity of each house by 5. So, if you had 100 houses and you researched House Capacity level 1, you would gain an increase of 500 to your max population.


2. Could you explain how to gain researchers?

You train them just like soldiers. Go to barracks, and right next to the box with Soldier Bootcamp on it is a box with Researcher Training on it. If you have been training troops, I donno how you could have missed it.


3. On the quest page there are the new options to set number of units for certain quests. How does the .csv file work and where should it go?

You do not use a CSV file at all. It doesn't say to use a file, just to enter stuff in CSV (Comma Seperated Values)
The drop down menus list all units/buildings/technologies and their corresponding IDs. You enter the IDs on the first line, the minimum quantity on the second line, and the maximum quantity on the third line.

For example, say I wanted to require 500-5000 villagers, but only 10-100 Soldiers for a quest.
REQUIRED UNIT ID: 1,2
REQUIRED UNIT MIN: 500,10
REQUIRED UNIT MAX: 50000,100

Just like that.

4. The guide link is broken and does not go to a page.

??? It works fine for me. Just click Age of Dragons at the top of this page, then Guide. It works fine. If it's not working for you, you can remove the

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!defined statement
{
exit;
}

near the top of the guide file and away you go!


5. What program are you using to generate pictures for quests? I like the way your farm looks and the treasure room pictures.
I'm not using any program for anything. The farm pic I stole off another site and need to replace, and I don't know what you mean by treasure room...

6. That is it for now, thanks for all of the hard work.
Thanks!

7. Btw, any news on the adr front? I wish to heck someone would make a mod for phpbb3 to make an entire rpg. That is my dream.
Standalone ADR is about pointless. I still can't get sessions, registration, user manipulation to work at all.

8. OH, I still need to upload that install file for 1.4.5 that I fixed.
The install file for 1.4.6 should be fine.

[gylippus]

Well, it seems I had an issue with refreshing the templates and purging the cache. I did purge the cache and refresh templates when I installed but it didn't seem to refresh everything. Now I can see the actual pages. I am still having an issue with the guide but I will figure it out eventually. Thanks.

[GameCharmer]

So, other than the guide, is everything else working?