Exxcentric

ok i have tested absorption rewrite (import) and it seems to be working fine now.

Rook problem was not tested but i turned off its ability to target untargetable bones (like rook shoulder TOL)

As for seeing through fog of war, i am not sure what has done that? i didnt get that far into the replay, but you sure you didnt have a tower up there that was alive? 

new installer uploaded.

Not a chance to check this out... been swamped most of the day.

Love you and your mod exxcentric.

I can understand how frustrating it must be to not get feedback as often as you would like but coming from a person that loves your mod I thank you for all of your time and effort into giving the community this piece of art work. This mod really shows what a supported DG game could have been.

You should include the enchanced AI mod, but modify it to use the new favor items.

It's not hard... just copy paste the enchanced AI into your mod and modify the various AIblueprint lua files.

In each skill; build, Look for
FavorItems = {'AchievementHealth'},

Also, I wouldn't be afraid to make an exclusive version of the mod. Just the other day It took Pacov and crew 5+ games just to get the basic enhanced AI mod to work in a game.

If you do that (make an exclusive version) you should also include the EnhancedUI packaged Pacov assembled.

Really, people are lazy, and invalid gamestates are a pain to sort out when trying to play online... one mod to enable that provides everything you need will make life so much more easy for everyone.

No, actually, don't do this.  You can just hook the AIBlueprint files in your mod, insure that it has a higher UID, and its AI blueprints will take precedence.  You can even modify AIBlueprints completely non-destructively with little or no effort.

This is horribly naive, and assumes that one mod author is responsible for every single mod released.  Since this is obviously not the case, if one mod author updates their mod (e.g. something important like the UberFix) and you have a crappy, outdated, hacked copy of that in your mod, it's completely incompatible with the updated mod.   Everyone who wants to use the 'combination mod' then has to wait for that 'author' (I use that term loosely) to figure out what was changed in the updated mod, and steal those changes.

Just because you played Homeworld or some other game where this was the only way to use mods doesn't mean it's the best way to handle this in a very flexible game like Demigod.  Pacov's combined installer is an excellent compromise anyway, as it means that if a mod in the package gets updated, and the installer isn't immediately changed to reflect this, that they can still separately download and use the updated mod along with the un-updated ones in the combined installer just fine.

This also ignores the fact that invalid gamestates due to mod version conflicts are the result of poor modding practices, such as not updating UIDs when you release a new version, and are one of the simplest issues to avoid.

Nevermind that there really isn't anyone with the time, energy, and expertise in the Demigod modding community to maintain such a combined mod.  It's a stupid, outdated concept that people keep pushing because they don't fully understand the moho engine's capabilities.

NT- this forum engine sucks

You missed the point, you shouldn't have to download the enhanced AI mod separately, it should be included in favor mod.

Also

This is not due to the mods themselves. As far as i can tell (i believe i have had this discussion before somewhere else and infact i might have created a thread on it) this is due to a corruption of the mods during installing.

To get into the game you *MUST* all have the same mods installed/enabled. Unless there is a UID repetition (which i try very hard to avoid) getting into a game without the same version (a cause of invalid game state (IGS)) is not possible. On every occasion that his has occured to my knowledge it has been because someone has overwritten the old mod with a new version.

This seems to corrupt files (my sneaking suspicion is that ppl are not using an admin account on the PC and so the files are installed as READONLY -- winrar and most other zip programs save unzipped files as readonly on these accounts. As such overwriting is prevented when unzipping/reinstalling a new version over an old one) and DELETING the folder and re-installing has always worked.  

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Moving back to the original thread:

Any ideas for next version or new bugs that have cropped up?

I know i need to fix vampire gloves buff from being removed on death. 

Other items i am thinking about adding are:

2 new magic resist items (to make guardian platemail more effective)

Ability Damage % item with Max mana (as requested by Darkliath a while back)

An invisiblity item (when struck by a tower you gain 2 seconds of invisibly, 5 sec cooldown)

Another invisibility item - Invisiblity ward - all demigods entering area (11) will be invisible. Ward will last 2 minutes but will be able to be killed by demigod minions (same as oak ward)

Gold Ward - wand - very long cooldown: all units killed in area of ward will have their bounty and XP increased by 25%. (works for both allies and enemies).

Consumble: kill all minions of enemy unit.

GoldTower: Consumable - Max 1 - create a goldmine which creates 1 gps. (was added in earlier iteration but was take out for balance. It will be rebalanced.

Others will be posted as suggested/thought of i

ty for your feedback macten (+1)

umm venom stone has been an issue of contention for a while. I am considering putting a damage hardcap on the item so it limits the total amount of damage that can be caused by it.

Again TY.

Thanks again for all of the work you've put into this, exx. 

Anyone around want to get a few games of this going tonight?  I'll be on vent later, so reply here or hit me up. 

Just a heads up, the new UberFix release might break a few things in the latest version of FavorMod, or vice versa.  Namely the BuffAffects.lua changes.  I added a new hookable function for the Health buffaffect, that allows mods to make non-destructive dynamic changes to Health buffs without overriding the original function, but I assume you're probably overriding others as well.

If you're actually interested, I can expand this into a more comprehensive system that covers all of the others as well.  At the very least, that would mean you wouldn't need to re-copy the UberFix BuffAffect functions every time it updates.

This would still work even if you don't want to require the UberFix (although it would make it easier, and you probably should!) by doing a check for an UberFix-specific global in BuffAffects.lua, and if not present, then overriding BuffAffects functions.

idea - an item or creature that drains mana via aura.  Or perhaps freezes mana regen on hit for X seconds.  I like the aura idea...

Might be really fun if it slowly drains allied mana via aura and maybe drains enemy mana at 3x that rate.

edit - any chance its easy to make nightmare not fire if no enemies around?

editedit - magic mirror's nerf was a bit too much.  I'd like to be able to cast an ability IMMEDIATELY after I use... instead there is like a second or .5 second delay before I can do anything.