Feature requests for TripleA

welcome,

i was going to avoid that request, because I absolutely hate it when during live games someone forgets to click an “Ok” box, thereby holding up the entire game (until they remember, or get back from bathroom, etc).

i figured people would either forget to click it, or be busy reading it for a while, thereby holding up the next player

but figuring out a way to not have a non-returning (void) message dialog not hold up a game is on my todo list,

so I broke down and figured out how to do it.  Originally by having a thread that ran another thread, that showed the dialog.

Then after completing it, I found that all message dialogs would now popup at the same time, and hide each other.  So then I had to figure out a way to have no more than 1 message dialog open at a time, while keeping the others in a queue.  My first try of interlocking blocking threads created a mess of deadlocks.  The solution ended up being having all simple void message dialogs go through a Thread Pool with only a single thread in it, then also forcing all other message dialogs and UI popups to wait on completion of the thread pool.

the plus side is that political notifications, kamikaze notifications, and these new end turn notifications, will no longer hold up the game for other players in a live game

a simple request, is rarely simple

but happy to make it anyway

And you can now change some font size and color options, (accessible from the “view” menu)

The defaults are of course the same as always were: 12 size font, black names, white unit count, and black damage count.  (my example is only an example)

And a new edit ability to change political relationships:

(in below screenshot example, I have changed the relationships so that it is germany/russia/italy vs the rest of the world)

I have always wanted to have the battle calculator show more information.
In particular, I found that (especially in dice games), the results of a battle were never close to what the “average” in the battle calculator was.  While the battle calc says that “defense have average of 2 units left”, the defense would normally end up with 6+ units left, as an example.
This is because due to the nature of A&A combat, when one side wins they win big, and when one side loses, they lose big.  This is simply the nature of dice + the rules of combat + the compounding/exponential nature of having multiple combat rounds.
So I decided to make 2 new statistics:

1. Average # of units left for Attacker when Attacker wins the battle
2. Average # of units left for Defender when Defender wins the battle

and while I was making these changes, pug and hepster suggested to add statistics for the number of units each side has, and Average # of combat rounds, and also allow you to choose when a player retreats in order to simulate a strafe.

It took some rewriting of the battle class, but the calc can now retreat successfully when the option presents itself.  The default is still to “never retreat, never surrender!”

Lastly, in order to not skew the results (for Revised games), the battle calculator will automatically submerge when it is just subs against aircraft.  (it already did this for aa50 games, but not for revised games)

so, behold the new battle calculator…

thx,
veqryn

For now the best ways are:

1. start triplea and click “play online”.  triplea will then confirm with the lobby server if your triplea is the latest version and will let you in if it is (and tell you to update/upgrade if it is not the latest version)

2. or check the main website to see what the “current stable version” is:  http://triplea.sourceforge.net/

In the future however, triplea will automatically check for updates too.  However, you won’t see that feature until the release after the next release.  (also, it will only check for “stable” updates, not “beta test” updates)

Currently i am working TripleA 1.7, and I will probably work on it until the majority of new features from the 1914 game are included too (probably several months after 1914 release).  It will be released as a “beta test” version, and will likely undergo several revisions until all the 1914 game rules are included and bug free, at which point it will be released as a stable version to everyone.

I’ll add them to the engine if you give them to me.

All sounds must be “.wav” files,
and usually between 1 second and 10 seconds long

upload them here:
http://tripleadev.1671093.n2.nabble.com/Request-we-need-Sounds-tp7391633.html

(i am totally depending on you guys and the community to find new sounds for me)