Change 2956

Originally Posted : Wed Mar 08 18:46:35 2006
Posted by : Razan
Title : MAJOR Magewar Changes

MAJOR Magewar Changes!
For those of you unfamiliar with Magewar, I suggest you do a
'help magewar' and/or join the magewar channel to talk to people
about this great game designed by Fingolfin and implemented by
me, Razan. :) Magewar's been around for a while now but up until
now it was 'tied' to a single character. So all of your characters
had their own cards and couldn't combine them. So, now for the
changes!

Magewar now REQUIRES that you participate in the account system.
This is going to be mandatory in the near future anyway, so get
used to it. See 'mychars help' to ead about it.

Once you login after this change your Magewar album will be
converted to (version 2.0) :). This version is a linked album
between all the characters associated with your account (through
mychars). It will automatically convert all your cards, magewar
bank, and magewar decks over into this combined version. Your
decks will be renamed charactername_deckname. In this way, if
you had two characters Foo and Bar and both had decks name
'awesome' it will name them foo_awesome and bar_awesome. Feel
free to rename them, delete them, etc afterwards - just do
'album dlist' to look at your decks and edit them.

Some of the commands for Magewar will be slower based on the way
I implemented it. However, some will be faster and it WILL
use a lot less disk space - not to mention now being combined
with all your characters!

If you have NOT set up your 'mychars' account yet, then the
deck will self destruct telling you this is the roblem. Your
old cards will not disappear, don't worry - just set up an
account and then on login it will be fine. This also means
you will no longer get NEW cards from killing monsters until you
set up an account and have a valid album. I have backed up all
cards prior to this change in case someone major goes wrong.

The top card list will be invalid for a few days until I fix it
so please just ignore it.

I've changed the tradeshop so there is no minimum cost of putting
up ANY card (well, it's 1 coin) so we should see a true auction
house develop. People who have cards up for the previously
really high prices feel free to take them down and put them up
for more reasonable prices.

Don't forget you can 'give' cards now too - so you can do your
own trading.

There may be bugs so I need players to report them to my
attention. This was a complicated change so let's try and find
what's broken and get it fixed.

Enjoy.<br
- Razan.