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Here is a update of what I am working on...
The buttons are small like that because they don't have bitmaps assigned to them yet. Also these are just quick prototype controls, we can change them around.
The next thing to test is abstracting these into a sub class that can be instantiated from C++.
If it seems like the basic concept is workable I am going to proceed with implementing the C++ backend for this, this also might require having to rearrange some of the class organization in wxluxgui which I will know more about once I get into it.
I will update the status ASAP.

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HcHeniy Ccunty fair is Aug. 2-6! See the special fair section en pgs. 7-9! SERVING THE PEOPLE OF HUNTLEY SINCE 1960 tlTJie Puntltp jfarmsiitit USPS 580-360 THURSDAY, JULY 27,1995 - VOLUME 35, NUMBER 17 - HUNTLEY, ILLINOIS TWENTY-FIVE CENTS Huntley Chamber forms referral benefit By Cathy DeQuaker Huntley Chamber of Commerce The Huntley Area Chamber of Commerce and Industry would like to announce the formation ofa new member benefit. The Network Marketing Referral Group was formed at the end of June. To date, there are 20 registered members. The purpose ofthe group is to providequalified referrals for members, share effective business ideas and suggestions, and help promote the spirit ofbusiness ethics. The board for the group consists of Joanne Prondzinski of Classic Forms, president; Bemice Bakley ofHuntiey Travel, vice-president; and Jim Henry of American Family Insurance, secretary/treasurer. The Chamber would like to thank Bemice, Jim and Joanne for their commitment in starting the group. Those interested in finding out more about the NMRG can call the Chamber at 708/669-0166. Huntley artist donates Log Cabin painting Local artist. Marge Tures, recently presented Chuck Yerke, president of the board of commissioners of the Huntley Park District, and Bob Tures, vice-president, with a watercolor painting of the log cabin located in Deicke Park. The cabin was refurbished by the Huntley Lions Club and volunteers last summer. Marge is a participant in the park district's watercolor class. Her husband, Jack Tures, sen'ed on the board of commissioners for 16 years. Bob is a second-generation commissioner. Those interested in participating in the watercolor class can call the parkdistrict office at 669-3180 for more information. The class is for all stages of artists. Instractor Theresa Darby teaches on an individual basis for each participant. Parkside Volleyball: Exciting Huntley pastime By Jill Wenzloff Editor For the better part ofthe summer, Parkside Tap has hosted a sand volleyball league of local teams. Teams play under the lights on Mon., Tues., and Wed. nights, competingagainst teams made up of local businesses and groups of friends. "It's just something that's really fim for the adults in Huntley to do," said Cindy McDonald, owner (with husband Mark) ofthe Parkside Tap. This season, 11 teams participated in the league, including teams sponsored by Huntley Travel, H.S. Crocker, Clasens, Parkside, PR. Parrot's, Custom Graphics, Gary Weiss Landscaping, and Woodstock Sanitary. Other independent teams include the "Fruitcakes," "Road Dogs," and "Caped Crasaders." Spectators watching the games quickly get the feeling that many team members are not playing to win - they're just having a good time. "We really enjoy playing here," said Sharon Andersonof theH. S. Crocker team, who affectionately call themselves "Half-Crocked," due to their infrequent wins. "We're the better-looking, less competitive team," she said. Team captain "Wild Wayne" came up with a politically-correct description of his team ~ "We're 'wiimingly-challenged!'" he said. Anyone can watch the games, which take place behind Parkside Tap, located on Main St. across from the square. Teams begin play around 6:30 and end at 9:30. For interested volleyball players, Parkside is sponsoring a 4- Man Slam voleyball tournament on Saturday, Aug. 12, for men and women. The team fee is $50, with cash-back prizes and a free pitcher ofbeer. Teams can call 669-84% to pre-register. View judges, antiques at McHenry County Fair Changes and additions to the Aug. 2, in building D, continuing research. Assisting Dahlberg on Antique Competition, combined with the return of Grace and GeneWesteiberg who judged in 1989, will highlight the 1995 McHenry County Fair Antique Show. Open into the late afternoon. This is a wonderfiil learning experience for those inierestcd in antiques. Grace Carolyn Dahlberg- Westerberg has over 35 years in Aug. 2 will be her husband, Gene Westerberg, high school teacher and collector of old tools, toys, cast iron banks, Worid's Fair memorabilia and silver items. judging begins at 9am Wednesday, antique study, evaluation and
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Title | The Huntley Farmside |
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The boys are back in town! Well boys and girls and other weird folk to be honest! What are we talking about? Headphonies of course, those fantastic little speaker characters with the massive sound are finally back in stock! Can you imagine that these mini speakers that look like little guys have that amazing volume and sound? Yeah, we had them as a Soupe a couple month ago, and they went BOOOOM – all gone. Literally, all gone. Eran didn't have any anymore, Dov didn't, they were gone. Well, guess what, they are back and they are back with a vengeance! Not just did he design new styles - no, there's better innards as well: - Improved packaging and plastic fitting Created by Eran Weinberg, the little Headphonies are lovely toy shaped portable mini speakers that work with any iPod you might own. Even if you don't own an iPod, they will work with other MP3 and CD players, as well as computers and even certain cell phones. The speakers – if that's what you agree on calling them - stand at only 3" (8 cm) tall, and the sound quality will really surprise you, we were beautifully blown away! Each Headphonie comes in its own packaging which includes a headphone cable for connecting your music listening device (read iPod) to the Headphonie, as well as a charging cable for the unit, which doesn't requires batteries to use, and can achieve a full charge in about a hour which will give users about four hours worth of play time. |


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Branchname policy (preliminary)
(Please note that this policy is new so many branches that currently exist don't adhere to this policy)
Where to branch from
- Private branches should be cut from the trunk where the ongoing development takes place. Branching from other branches, especially the RELEASE branches, is not advised.
How branch names should look like
- Private branch names should be lower case. Use '_' to replace a '.' in version numbers, otherwise use '-' as separator. If you have to create a branch from anything besides HEAD, prepend the name of that branch. Upper case branch names are reserved for official branches and are usually only created by release managers.
What should be done when creating a new branch
Before creating a branch you should create a base tag with the tag name <your_branch_name>-base on the branch you want create a new branch on. If you don't have this branch checked out already:
cvs -d:ext:freedesktop.org:/cvs/xorg checkout -r <base_branch> xc
Note: If base_branch is HEAD, you may omit the -r <base_branch>. Then do:
cd xc cvs tag <your_branch_name>-base
- Then create your branch:
cvs tag -b <your_branch_name>
- Don't forget to update to your newly created branch.
cvs update -r <your_branch_name>
Merging in new versions from the mother branch
- When you want to merge in changes from the base branch you need to create a temporary merge tag on the base branch:
cvs tag -r <base_branch> <your_branch_name>-merge-1
- then do the merge:
cvs update -j <prev_merge> -j <your_branch_name>-merge-1
<prev_merge> is the tag from your previous merge (see below). If you haven't merged yet it would be: <your_branch_name>-base, otherwise it would be <your_branch_name>-merge. Now you have to delete your old merge tag, if it exists:
cvs tag -d <your_branch_name>-merge
- move it to the new merge point:
cvs tag -r <your_branch_name>-merge-1 <your_branch_name>-merge
- and delete the temporary tag:
cvs tag -d <your_branch_name>-merge
Merging things back
- Before merging a branch back into HEAD you must merge HEAD into your branch and test it. Please perform the steps described under 4. Once you are ready, do:
cvs checkout -j <your_branch_name>-merge -j <your_branch_name>
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cvs checkout -A -j <your_branch_name>-merge -j <your_branch_name>
- This will only work if your branch has been created from HEAD. After committing your changes you need to move the merge tag on the HEAD branch to the committed version:
cvs rtag -d <your_branch_name>-merge cvs tag <your_branch_name>-merge
- Please note: Access to HEAD is restricted. If you have not been given access to HEAD please check back before merging code back into HEAD.
Closing a branch
- When you have merged changes from you branch to another branch you may want to close your branch. To do so please add a 'close' tag to the final version:
cvs tag <your_branch_name>-close
- If you want to continue working on your branch you should tag the version you have just merged. Append the name of the branch you have merged to to the name of your branch:
cvs tag <your_branch_name>-HEAD
Branch list
After creating a new branch you should add an entry to the branch list on the Wiki. It should contain:
- Branch Name:
- Purpose: Briefly describe the purpose of your branch. If you have a description of your project elsewhere please also add a link.
- Owner: Your name and possibly others.
- Status: Open, Closed
- Base: Base branch (should be head).
- Tags: List of tags on the branch with description
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Howard begins 2nd season of 'It's Academic'
Friday - 10/5/2012, 7:18pm  ET
WASHINGTON - WTOP anchor Hillary Howard will be hosting her second season of Washington D.C. game show "It's Academic."
The season begins Saturday, Oct. 6 at 11 a.m. on channel 4.
"It's Academic" first aired in October, 1961, making it the longest-running television quiz show in the world. High school students compete to answer questions on a variety of topics.
"It's Academic" is produced in Washington D.C., Baltimore and Charlottesville, Va.
Howard became host of the District's edition of "It's Academic" in September, 2011 after long-time quizmaster Mac McGarry retired.
"I still try to channel Mac McGarry on the podium," Howard says. "He will always be the quizmaster!"
Howard says she is inspired by the students who compete on the show, and they often impress her by reciting jokes, limericks and even the number Pi.
"I love that they understand knowledge makes life richer," she says.
See the list of participating schools this season here.
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These quizzes will test your knowledge about how today's portions compare to the portions available 20 years ago and the amount of physical activity required to burn off those extra calories.
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As some of you know, I've never written tactical battle AI before. Galactic Civilizations and Stardock's other games didn't have tactical battles. War of Magic had tactical battles but I wasn't involved in that portion of the game.
This series of journals will take you through the journey of how to write AI for tactical battles. In my experience, games have tended to have pretty crummy AI when it comes to tactical battles (War of Magic no exception).
So for starters, I've got help. Seasoned developer Charles Lentz, who has been at Stardock for some years now, is assisting me on this project. The first thing I asked him to do is make it easy for me to do mock battles. When I was working on War of Magic v1.4, which was the first build I even got to look at how tactical battles were done, I noticed that there was no way for me to conduct mock battles. I'd have to "get lucky" and find an AI player who could cast spells to see if it even worked which was time consuming.
So for Fallen Enchantress, I asked Charles to set up a cheat key that would create opposing armies and that it would read from an XML file that I could mod to decide what powers those units would have. That way, I could test out all kinds of combinations.
Since I come from the modding world, I prefer to have my games let me, the player, mod as much as possible. My AIs have not been very moddable in the past because, frankly, the coding necessary was far outside my area of expertise (i.e. making it read variables and data from external XML files rather than just hard coding it in C++). But with Fallen Enchantress, Charles is going to take care of that for me.
So one of the things I intend to do is stuff as much data as I can in XML files. I want to be able to have the AI gather as much data as it can about who it opposes and then look at the XML data to help it decide what to do.
That means I want to make it so that every spell, ability, weapon, etc. in the game has in its XML AI data that I (or others) can mod with good things to go against it.
Does the enemy side have a spell that rains down a fire storm on me? Then I want that spell to include in its XML what spells are good counters to it. Then, the player comes in with his fire mage and the enemy casts a frost shield on her first turn.
Moreover, this gives me the excuse to request the UI team to let both sides see what spells/abilities each other have easily because a good tactical battle, in my opinion, should be a real battle of wits making use of terrain, spells, counter-spells, and maneuver. And the more data the player gets to see, the more data I can let the AI see without "cheating".
I tried to analyze other tactical battles that I remember having fun playing to see what was interesting in these systems. One thing for sure, the MOM tactical system is pretty boring and replicating this system will not make it better. I tried to select games that was close to a fantasy medieval setting. So I excluded games like master of orion and PTO.
A simple square map move and attack tactical battle system. Both side had exactly the same unit, except for the 5th one, but in different numerical value. The AI was pretty dumb and the only good strategic element in this game is that you try to flank your enemy because the side from which you attack from will influence the amount of damage you make. So attacking from the rear or the sides will make more damage than the front.
Romance of the 3 kingdoms
The screen shots above are for r3K 2. What was interesting in this system is the various strategies you could use. You could switch enemy units, setup fires, charge through enemy units, surround and make simultaneous attack. Move ennemy units into fire (that was fun), etc. Surprisingly, they seem to have made some sort of Iphone version of R3K2.
In R3K 3 they setup the battles closer around the city. In the screen shot above, we do not see much the city, but you had to attack gates to open them. Or taunt the ennemy to open it for you. You could also setup pits which was pretty fun to see enemy fall into them. R3K 3 also had horses and cross bow equipment that you can see in the screen shots above. It added more strategies because now units were no all the same.
In R3K 11, they powered up even more the idea of tactical manuvers to add more strategies to their tactical battles. Here is an extract of the rule book I posted some times ago.
So all the systems above had actually good reasons to manage tactical battles. There was something interesting to manage. In MOM, the only thing worth managing is for abusing the game. LIke regenerating werewolf that you move around the map. For life stealing creatures that you want to attack with multiple units at the same time, else they are all going to die, etc. Else, there is not really any interest to manuver your units on the battle ground since there is no flanking, simultaneous attacks, traps, tricks (ex: fire) and maneuvers.
So unless you want to implement some of the feature above, you might want to have a simplified the combat system to remove the burden of moving each unit individually for no good reason.
I think i have posted before about making AI for JollyGrim, which is a grid-based strategy game.
My approach was to write an AI that was very generalizable, considering that we plan to add new mechanics to the game regularly and we don't want to update the AI all the time.
It will be interesting to compare to your approach, which seems very different.
Are you also going to put in "synergy" information as well as counter information?
For example, cast -50% enemy fire resistance before doing a spell that does fire damage, but only if the combat is going to last long enough to do lots of fire damage (because these spells usually take multiple spells to pay off in damage over time).
Also check if the enemy doesn't have a strong ranged/caster army, because in that case you want to kill them as fast as possible, you don't have time to set up combos, unless mana conservation is a serious issue.
I am interested to see how you handle the more complex interactions like what I just brought up.
A tagging system doesn't work well with this kind of spell system unless you get so specific that it's just confusing. The difficulty is that as soon as you have more then one counter... what are you countering? Does it counter the damage? Leaves the damage but counters a debuff part of the spell? Counters as in negates the spell before its cast? Once the spells get complicated it's hard to do right. The upside is that you can add new spells and they'll more or less just work.
That said, the problems with an XML list are obvious: if you add a new defensive spell the AI will have no idea whatsoever of how to use it. You'll have to go through all the other spells figuring out where to list it as a potential counter. There's no discovery going on by the AI.
I've always preferred another style of caster combat. I see an army being lead by a guy with level 4 fire magic (or whatever)? Probably want to cast ice shield immediately. He starts casting ignite? I start casting extinguish flames. His spell still goes off, but when my spell finishes I simply put the ignited units out.
He starts casting Hellfire? If I'm a strong enough caster, I start casting Counterspell to negate it entirely. If not, I start casting an AoE heal to bring anything that survives back up health wise.
He casts Flaming Weapons? Disjunction.
Summon Phoenix? Banish. (Or maybe Summon Kraken, and we'll just let them go at it!)
The difference there is that aside from a true Counterspell (which would have to be expensive due to its control power) I can't actually see what he's casting and negate it before he finishes by starting another spell after he does. I can react to it, but his spells still get to land. If I want defenses up before he blasts me, I need to be the one taking the casting initiative.
In D&D I you have the option to attempt an interruption of a spell caster's concentration by attacking him before he could cast the spell. If he was hit he could cast the spell with a successful concentration check. If he failed the check the spell was not cast or mis-fired.
Reminds me of when I had to kill Janusk 10^78 times to test new spell fx... But back on topic:
And a lot of the goodness of the AI comes down to the architecture. For instance, in WOM, the units were pre-defined at the start of the battle, would set a target and continue their strategy until they accomplished their goal.By contrast, this AI looks at what a given unit should be doing every initiative activation (i.e. every time it gets a chance).So a sovereign might start out the battle as an TACTICAL_SUPPORT unit where it casts some buffs on its army or on a particular unit. Then later it might become a TACTICAL_MELEE unit, whacking away at units with its sword or with a short-range magical spell and then it might turn around and cast a heal spell. The point being is that you can't set a role for a unit at the start of the battle, it needs to be able to make a change whenever possible. Who it attacks, who is helps, who is runs from, etc. should be done during each initiative and making that "fast" includes being able to call from XML what the appropriate counter-move is.
Is there a higher strategy level as well? I mean like... how does the AI decide when to turn from TACTICAL_SUPPORT to TACTICAL_MELEE? Does each sov have its own combat style, like defense, ranged magic, full attack etc?
I have said it before, and I will say it again. Why not copy from the best:
KINGS BOUNTY has the best tactical battles there is. If it would be anywhere near that level we would be ecstatic
Wait wait wait. Brad. Seriously? You don't know how to implement an XML parser in C++? What?!
You be trollin bro. Either that, or there's some kind of thread safety issue you don't want to deal with. Speaking of which, is FE even multithreaded?Anyway, I simply refuse to believe that a veteran programmer can't figure out how to implement and use XML parsing over a weekend. Even stoned out of your mind, it's not a particularly complex task*; I find it harder to operate the damn microwave myself. Especially when there are literally dozens of libraries that will (mostly) do it for you.
There's just no way it's too complicated for you. The way I see it, you have decided to :effort this off to a minion, you are trolling, or you have "selective amnesia" about XML because you find it boring. Which I understand completely!
*don't recommend it, because you end up with variables that have truly absurd names. Such as hahahahFingers or momomomoeu.
WOM was multithreaded, so FE should be also.
I vote for Deep Blue level of AI skill in Tech battles
D&D also let you make a spellcraft check to figure out what spell they were casting and then if you had an approporiate spell, counterspell it (or attempt to use Dispel Magic as a general counterspell).
It was a good system for this stuff.
Obviously Elemental is filled with XML parsing already.
But it makes as much sense for me to set up new parsing abilities as it does for me to code new file handling code. Do you want me writing AI code or writing file reading code?
I want you to write me a love poem...
Flanking, LOS, terrain, etc, are all interesting concepts.
But there's also some meat and potatoes here that are easy to overlook because we take them for granted.
How about the AI just freaking healing a hurt unit? Or slowing down a charging unit?
If you want to talk about the design of tactical battles, that's Derek's thing. I can say, IMO, that I am not keen on tactical battles being the deciding factor in whether someone wins or loses a given game. If a tactical battle with say 8 units takes more than 5 minutes then that's very very bad.
I understand that, this is mostly a STRATEGY game, and not a TACTICS game. But yea, I guess I did take those ideas for granted. I would guess that a "Healing spell" is in fact a counter to my "Mace to your Face" spell.
It will be interesting to see what XML guidelines the AI uses to have the sovereign act as a magic caster or a melee unit.
Well, everyone has their own tastes I guess. Weighing all the options in a tactical situation and coming out on top is a very engaging experience for me. I'd love a complex, fully featured tactical battle system like the one in 4e DnD (for example). Hopefully, we'll see someone create something similar in a 4X game some day. Ultimately, I want the best of both worlds (strategic and tactical).
Heroes could have several specific roles. For example, in 4e, there are defenders (sticky tank guys), controllers (lock down guys), strikers (damage guys) and leaders (buffers/enablers/healer guys). Various classes would offer a slightly different flavor and unique way of fulfilling their role. Normal units would be tuned down heroes with a limited number of abilities (1-4). There is line of sight, opportunity attacks, flanking, terrain, full and partial cover, various movement types, etc.
Probably a nightmare in terms of sheer amount of content, balancing and AI coding. Hopefully, some one will be crazy enough to do it one day.
DISCLAIMER: I realize this post is in no way realistic.
arguing to make visible what an enemy can do:
I'd like to see two things with this.
1st: I'd like to see the abilities my enemies most frequently use.
This is a GREAT place to make espionage viable in a real way that only espionage could be.
NO intel would only let you see how frequently the enemy uses the abilities he uses against you.
Low levels of intel could allow you to see what an opponent tends to use overall vs other opponents.
Moderate Intel could allow you to see more rare abillities that your opponents use.
High intel could let you know every trick your opponent has available to him. And warn you of the potentially dangerous ones he could currently bring to bear against you.
If you searched back through the forums you would laugh as hard as I do when I see someone mention espionage.
too true.. I remember playing MoM and thinking tactical battles were very cool to start with.. until i just wanted to skip them in the late game because of the repetitive nature of the battles and how long they would possibly take.. this is the same for other games like Total War etc..
I'm a strategist mainly and tactical battles interest me little unless they are warhammer style, but that is a game unto itself.. ingame tactical battles should be quick and fun as not to detract from the main game..
From my perspective, the key is to make tactical battles less repetitive - to have your opponent continually surprise you - that's not easy to do if all the opponent's have access to the same AI routine and are alike.
I read in other posts that more attention was being paid to making each fraction unique. If so, then the tactical battles could have a chance to play out differently based on which fraction you are facing.
If the Wraith fraction focused on Death Magic while the Trogs are focused on Melee Combat each of these fractions would present a dramatically different combat experience to the player.
I've never actually programmed A.I. of any real calibre, however to me the best way would be a combination of [tag] controls and data-driven A.I. Again, I've never programmed anything resembling a complicated A.I., so this is merely where my limited programming knowledge takes me.So, for example, the A.I.s army composition would generate some basic attribute numbers for it to use in response calculations - so it can say to itself 'I have a [small number] of [high HP] units with [good] [spell defense]'.If I begin casting a spell - lets say a [Damage][AOE] - which, by the principles of balanced game design, would deal a smaller amount of damage to a larger area of units - the A.I. could look at what I was casting and say 'The [Damage][AOE][Spell] is [bad] against my [small number] of [high HP] units with [good] [spell defense]'. From there, it would use its allocated thread and do what good chess A.I. does; perform a series of background calculations on possible retaliation moves and plan as many steps as possible ahead from there, building a logic based plan. It could arrive at the conclusvie that, in order to do the most amount of damage, it needs to slow my troops down.It's still exploitable, however its [Tag] and [attribute] information works more organically, and so the A.I.'s decisions shouldn't be as predictable, while still retaining a decent level of intelligence. This way, its not casting [Spell B] whenever I cast [Spell A], and it's not casting [AOE][Heal] when I cast [AOE][Damage]; its saying "His [Spell] is [good] against my [Army]; I need to cast [Spell] to minimise its impact" due to the outcome of its simulated turns.Ignore me if this is illogical to any experienced programmer; I'm a n00b, just sharing my n00b thoughts.
Anyway, I don't mind if the tactical battle's mechanics are repetitive; as far as I'm concerned, not every battle should be a tactical one.For me, the tactical battles are when I'm saying "Ok, this battle needs my human element" and step in in place of the Auto-resolve.In WoM, this basically meant that I was exploiting the fairly weak A.I., and because it was so consistantly exploitable I was kind of forced to play the tactical battles more often than I'd have liked to ensure that I had as many victories as possible.If the A.I./Auto-resolve was better, you'd need to play less tactical battles as the component A.I. would misimise the effect of the "human element"; going tactical would have less of an impact, and so less incentive to play it as often. 5 minute tactical battles aren't bad if you're playing them every half hour. If I'm doing them every 5 minutes, however, it becomes bad. Hell, 15 minute tactical battles aren't bad if the space of time between them is large enough.My 2 cents.P.S) We should have a '2 Cent piece' emoticon.
Exactly what I was getting at before. The WoM system is not bad, it is just bad because the AI can't play it and there wasn't much depth. I would PREFER a system with flanking, LOS, etc. Failing that, I PREFER the WoM system with a competent AI. If you can successfully fix the AI while Derek adds in depth with abilities, more balanced equipment, etc, I will be very happy. Assuming that the strategic AI works too! Bottom line, better to have a moderately complex system that the AI can play, and is fun, than a complex system that the AI can't play.
As the series develops, these things can always be explored in later games.
As for the importance of tactical battles, it shouldn't be THE deciding factor, but it should be A deciding factor. So if two empires have developed fairly evenly, victory in battle could and should be one way for one to gain the upper hand. If the results of tactical combat can't be decisive, there is no point in having it. It just should be one of many viable paths, and that seems to be what you guys are doing.
Using a tag system makes things 95% less troublesome for modders - thereby simpler. Though I guess it is true that the modders will have to wrap their minds around the notion that they can work with tags AND names.
I think you've not read all my posts on the tag system. Regarding your "Spread Disease", it specifies [disease], [resistance] and [immunity]. As I explained before, these are categorized, so [disease] is part of the "damage"-category, and [resistance], [immunity] are both part of the "protection"-category. A valid counter spell must match at least one tag from every specified category. So a spell like "Poison Immunity" [poison], [immunity] would qualify, but "Mass Fire Shield" [fire], [resistance], [aoe] does not.
Note also that tags have parent-child relations; for example [disease] is a child of [all-damage]. Parent tags qualify; so a spell like "Immortal" [all-damage], [immunity] is a valid counter spell for "Spread Disease" even though "Immortal" does not specify [disease].
Refer to this post.
Gotcha. Okay, that is a much improved version. However it needs to be VERY well thought out to support more complex spells and to wield the right results. As you said, you probably need unique spell counter descriptions in that case.
It is however more difficult to keep track of what is considered a good spell and what isn't. For example the AI might never use spell X to counter spell Y and you might never know the reason why. Even if you do, it might be impossible to make the AI use that specific counter no matter how hard you try, unless you nerf the other counters by hand. Of course, you could overrule the tags to get the desired behavior (which I would assume most modders would to in order to cut corners), and that would result in a VERY disorganized database.
The point I'm trying to make with all this rambling is that while I now agree that the tag system is more powerful, it is also much harder to understand, to analyze and to adjust to give out the desired output. In this sense, I think it would be a disadvantageous to modders. Also, the learning curve for it would be much higher so modders with little programming background might have some trouble using it properly.
There are pros and cons to both sides, I admit. I just think the more rigid and simpler system is better.
8x8 battles already take more than 5mins, but for other reasons (slow animations). But yes I agree it should be fast like MOM.
Also the tag system is cool but not a holy grail solution:
eg: slowing an opponent's unit tagged as a charger is a poor choice if there are other units that are much closer to my vulnerable units. What the AI needs to do is asess the situation each turn (after all there are only 16 or 20) units and assign multiple values like (melee threat, ranged threat, weakness, strategic importance (killing a spouse, or a hero that gives a specific bonus), and so on. Thease weight should be computed by taking distance, HP/HP left, armor, damage type, spellcasting abilities, and terrain into consideration.


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At a cursory look, the pipe shop location appears to be "feasible, desirable and cost effective," according to Nancy Kirkpatrick, director of the North Vancouver Museum and Archives. "For an investment of approximately $9 million, we can develop a fantastic museum at this location that makes use of this wonderful heritage building," she said. "It won't be a traditional, old-style — dare I say, boring — museum. We're really looking at making this a much more active, contemporary, interactive place that will be more relevant to peoples' lives."
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The concept design and the idea of placing the museum on the waterfront won unanimous support from council, but some members had significant concerns.
"I think this $75,000 will be money well spent in terms of getting a lot more information, but there's a long way to go," said Coun. Craig Keating. "I don't want to falsely raise expectations."
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Patricia Sweeney loves contests. She loves them almost as much as she loves books, shelves of books, rows of inviting titles.
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"I specialized in Victorian fiction. Victorian fiction tends to be lengthy," said the Empress of Understatement.
It never occurred to her that people, most people, could resist the 500-page charms of George Meredith, Samuel Butler or William Makepeace Thackeray. Instead of teaching long books to impatient students, she married into academia. Harold E. Sweeney Jr. made his career as a political science professor.
"I was a Jill of many trades. A teacher, a writer, a professional editor, retail manager, nanny, secretary, etc.," she said.
Where contests were concerned, she is an artist. She heard a theory once that life is water sloshing around, and art is the ice cube tray that gives it shape. "That's why I like contests," she said. "OK, these are the boundaries."
She's entered National Public Radio's three-minute fiction and The Peanut Shack limerick competitions. She's played the poetic emphasis of the newspaper puzzle Double Dactyls and admires John Updike's way with sonnets applied to ordinary objects, especially bugs.
"He just made himself up a contest," she said of the poems' constraints. "He was the only contestant."
On an Alaskan cruise, she took a photo of the ship's pool and the glacier toward which they were steaming. "I saw a contest that wanted a photo that exemplified civilization, and I said 'Aha! My swimming pool picture!' I won a digital camera," she said.
In the spring of 2011, the Sweeneys moved from Boise to Tacoma Lutheran Home to be close, but not too close, to their daughter in Seattle.
"I'm so impressed with Tacoma," Sweeney said. "There's a sense of its history, and that we're all in this together."
There was, when they first visited Tacoma Lutheran Home, a sense of destiny.
They stepped into the apartment where librarian Sally Craig lived until her death at 100. The hall was lined with bookshelves.
"We said, 'We'll take it!' the rest of the unit yet unseen," Sweeney said. "Because of the built-ins, we were able to dispose of three bookshelves before we moved from Boise. We also, to our regret, got rid of several hundred books, but before we left Pennsylvania in 2003, we had given away 4,500 books. How I wish I had some of those old titles to make more book-spine poems. But I did the best I could with our rump collection; political science adds piquancy to literature, religion, and children's books."
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With Kennedy
Housing the Urban Poor
Pilgrims in Their Own Land
A People Adrift
Reaching for Glory
A Little at a Time
Inventing America."
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The purpose of the Healthy Kids Act is to establish physical activity requirements for students in kindergarten through 12th grade and to establish nutritional content standards for food and beverages sold on or provided on school grounds during the school day (first bell to last bell).
Full Text of the Healthy Kids Act
The following brochure summarizes the history of the Healthy Kids Act and its components, offers detailed information about the nutritional content standards, and provides suggestions for ways school staff, parents, and students can help support the legislation. An editable document and .pdf file are included for you to use and distribute as you wish.
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Proposed USDA Nutrition Standards
As a part of the Healthy Hunger Free Kids Act of 2010 it is required that nutrition standards be set for all foods and beverages sold to students on campus during the school day outside of meals served as a part of the School Breakfast and National School Lunch Programs. Please note that the National standards are proposed and open for comment until April 9th. They will not be implemented until a final rule is released after reviewing the comments. Iowa has nutrition standards in effect for foods sold outside of meal programs since July 1, 2010, established as a part of the Healthy Kids Act of 2008. For your reference, the link to the chart below highlights the differences in the proposed USDA rule and Iowa's Healthy Kids Act Standards.
Iowa Healthy Kids Act and Proposed USDA Rule Comparison Summary
Healthy Kids FAQ
One purpose of the Healthy Kids Act is to establish nutritional content standards for food and beverages sold or provided on school grounds during the school day.
The Iowa Department of Education's Bureau of Nutrition and Health Services received a Wellmark Foundation grant titled Building on the Healthy Kids Act Opportunity. This grant allowed the Department of Education to support schools with the implementation of the Healthy Kids Act nutritional content standards at the local level; guide schools in re-examining their school district wellness policy; and engage parents and the greater school community in recognizing the impact they have as role models.
Nutrition Calculator - This calculator will determine whether a food product meets the Healthy Kids Act Nutritional Content Standards for a la carte, vending, and regulated fundraising items sold to students during the school day.
Healthy Kids Act Toolkit - This toolkit was created through a Wellmark Foundation Grant, Building on the Healthy Kids Act Opportunity. It was designed to assist schools in the implementation of the Healthy Kids Act Nutritional Content Standards for a la carte, vending, and regulated fundraising. Resources are divided up by their target audience and can be distributed in hard-copy format or electronically.
This presentation was developed through the Wellmark Foundation Grant, Building on the Healthy Kids Act Opportunity, and was utilized in the Healthy Kids Act Regional Trainings held across the state of Iowa. Please utilize this tool as you prepare your staff, students, and parents for implementation of the Healthy Kids Act Nutritional Content Standards.
Healthy Kids Act Training Presentation
Physical Activity
Sample Physical Activity Contract
Role Modeling
Included below are several resources that emphasize the need for adults in the school community to serve as healthy role models for students. The PowerPoint presentation, Role Modeling for Healthy Kids, can be used in staff meetings, in-services, and community settings to reinforce the importance of adults setting positive examples for youth - and their peers - in the area of nutrition and physical activity. Administrators and school staff are invited to view the recorded Taking School Wellness to the Next Level webinar to learn how to build support for school wellness and listen in on an interactive worksite wellness forum. Results from the forum are also included. Additional handouts are provided to further support healthy school environments.
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Taking School Wellness to the Next Level - Webinar Results
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School Wellness Policy Support Materials and Resource Guide
Healthy Kids Act Legislative Report 2009
Legislative Briefs Healthy Kids Act UPDATED
HKA Approved Carbonated 100% Fruit/Vegetable Juice
Implementing Strong Nutrition Standards for Schools: Financial Implications
Making Worksite Wellness Work at Your School
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Anhesuer-Busch InBev could be forced to sell its 30% stake in its largest distributor in Chicago, as a long-running legal battle enters a new chapter next week.
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I thought the train was hilarious. It didn't slow me down or seem too obnoxious. People staying in one place demanding hugs: that stunk! A group of people forming a congo line? UH... Not so bad?
Oh, people have been saying that since the pre-tent days. Unfortunately, there's simply no place in the Portland area available for us to move to at the current time. ...so let's not even go down that road.
I haven't even cleared the land for that road. I'm not complaining cause I love the Wyndam and I think they like us as well.
I'm only 5'9", but I never have problems getting through the halls. If you don't have size going for you, you can be polite (but demanding) and it works quite well.
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Apparently Carbon Motors has been around for a little while now, trying to sell their tactical E7 police cruisers to law enforcement agencies across the country—especially since Ford announced they are stopping production on the Crown Vic, labeled "America's Police Car." Now Carbon Motors has struck a partnership with BMW to provide diesel engines for the E7. The new engines purport to cut CO2 emissions by 40%, go from 0 to 60 in 6.5 seconds, and get about 30 miles to the gallon.
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Grand Finals 23 May 2013
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