Creature Hunt II (0.1.7)

[Todge]

Dec 30, 2016 6:12:06 GMT -8 Boy_Wonder said:

Todge - not important but is there any way to make the code so that if one creature is killed there's a chance of a second creature spawning?

I could possibly do it with an add-on code, but all I could really do is reset the thread key, so you'd get the same creature all over again.

[Boy_Wonder]

Bah, I was looking for a way that'd let members have a variety of different monsters to fend off in one thread

[mikemcd]

I'm having no luck manually setting my members HP. I set it from 0 to their max of 300 on their profile, hit save when it came up, and hit save account info that is always on the profiles. Their HP remained 0.

I'm just trying to get this enemy dead before I install the new version.

[Todge]

Dec 30, 2016 9:22:06 GMT -8 Boy_Wonder said:

Bah, I was looking for a way that'd let members have a variety of different monsters to fend off in one thread

That can't be done without re-writing that part of the code, and would also mean the key would have to hold different information, making it incompatible with previous versions, so I'd prefer not to go down that route.

Sorry.

[Todge]

Dec 30, 2016 10:39:04 GMT -8 mikemcd said:

I'm having no luck manually setting my members HP. I set it from 0 to their max of 300 on their profile, hit save when it came up, and hit save account info that is always on the profiles. Their HP remained 0.

I'm just trying to get this enemy dead before I install the new version.

There's no need to save the profile as you would normally, clicking the 'Save' button that appears should be enough.

When you edit the numbers, and you click the 'save' button, does it disappear?

[mikemcd]

Yes, Todge it does disappear when I save.

[Todge]

Sorry, that was my stupid error, I forgot to tell the plugin which key to write yo, so everytime you tried to update a users' HP, it was being saved to your own HP.

Please try this version...

[mikemcd]

Trying it out now Todge.

[ColtonGirl]

Hi. I've downloaded the latest version of the plugin, and everything seems to be running smoothly... until the Attack/Retreat buttons pop up. When I click them, they do nothing. I have basically copied the generic answers into the input fields and pasted the code into the profile summary area, so I'm not quite sure what I've done wrong.

If you could take a look, I would really appreciate it. I created a test board and posted threads with a few creatures (one with a swarm, one with a singular creature). I'm not sure if you can post a reply as a guest, but let me know if you need me to open the forum registration. It's restricted at the moment.

This is the test board: scribbles.boards.net/board/76/test-board

It also seems that unless a user's profile is edited in the staff options, the user's creature hunt stats don't show up at all, which I guess has happened to people on this thread as well.

Thanks in advance for any help you can give me!

[Todge]

Jan 2, 2017 9:00:50 GMT -8 ColtonGirl said:

Hi. I've downloaded the latest version of the plugin, and everything seems to be running smoothly... until the Attack/Retreat buttons pop up. When I click them, they do nothing. I have basically copied the generic answers into the input fields and pasted the code into the profile summary area, so I'm not quite sure what I've done wrong.

If you could take a look, I would really appreciate it. I created a test board and posted threads with a few creatures (one with a swarm, one with a singular creature). I'm not sure if you can post a reply as a guest, but let me know if you need me to open the forum registration. It's restricted at the moment.

This is the test board: scribbles.boards.net/board/76/test-board

It also seems that unless a user's profile is edited in the staff options, the user's creature hunt stats don't show up at all, which I guess has happened to people on this thread as well.

Thanks in advance for any help you can give me!

Very strange indeed... Neither of the issues you have stated have been mentioned before, so I assume it is clashing with another plugin on your forum.

Can you start by moving the plugin to the very bottom of the plugins list and see if it then works, and if it doesn't, try it at the very top and see if that fixes the issue.

[ColtonGirl]

Jan 2, 2017 14:22:26 GMT -8 Todge said:

Very strange indeed... Neither of the issues you have stated have been mentioned before, so I assume it is clashing with another plugin on your forum.

Can you start by moving the plugin to the very bottom of the plugins list and see if it then works, and if it doesn't, try it at the very top and see if that fixes the issue.

Okay, so I put it at the bottom and then at the top of my plugins, but that didn't seem to do it. So since you said it may have been clashing with one particular plugin, I went through and disabled the plugins one by one, and the conflict was with the external link confirmation plugin. Everything works perfectly now. Thanks so much!

[Todge]

Jan 2, 2017 20:09:58 GMT -8 ColtonGirl said:

Jan 2, 2017 14:22:26 GMT -8 Todge said:

Very strange indeed... Neither of the issues you have stated have been mentioned before, so I assume it is clashing with another plugin on your forum.

Can you start by moving the plugin to the very bottom of the plugins list and see if it then works, and if it doesn't, try it at the very top and see if that fixes the issue.

Okay, so I put it at the bottom and then at the top of my plugins, but that didn't seem to do it. So since you said it may have been clashing with one particular plugin, I went through and disabled the plugins one by one, and the conflict was with the external link confirmation plugin. Everything works perfectly now. Thanks so much!

Good catch....

I'll take a look to see if I can fathom a work around, but the fix MAY need to be done with that plugin instead.

[mikemcd]

Getting hard to hit. 4 misses in a row at the moment.

Edit: Yeah, Todge swarms with high HP are unkillable due to that miss rate not capping out. 

[Todge]

Jan 4, 2017 16:12:39 GMT -8 mikemcd said:

Getting hard to hit. 4 misses in a row at the moment.

Edit: Yeah, Todge swarms with high HP are unkillable due to that miss rate not capping out. 

The hit rate currently on your swarm is 29%.. A little under 1 in 3. So 4 misses in a row does not seem unreasonable. And to be honest, even if it was at 50% it is still not that unreasonable to see 4 misses in a row.

You can always put your swarms in a separate group, but not have them marked as swarms.. That way the hits will be treated as if it was a single creature, but you could add notifications that are more in line with it being a swarm.

The only other thing I can think of is to not reduce the hit rate until a swarm reaches a size of say, 100 creatures. So you'd have a high success rate until the swarm is significantly thinned out.

[mikemcd]

It's currently missing at least 10 in a row. I'm never using a swarm again.