Castle Based Defense Scaling + BATTLE BUG tracking!

Lord Thane

With a few player reports of the bug still being around, did some more checking into it. There were multiple instances in the calc using the bug as it turns out, I only added my fix to one of those, so in certain types of battle the bug still existed. Battle calc updated to account for that, should take care of that.

Muh Dude

Lord Thane Hell yeah, congrats!

saadht

@TheKeeper @Lord Thane

I’d just like to take the time to appreciate you guys working so hard to make this game fun and work for everyone. Great job, that was a big bug.

TheKeeper

saadht Not everyone can understand the greatness and complexity of my bugs!

Lord Thane

TheKeeper

😘

Lord Thane

Another update on this bug. It has yet another relic that needs fixing in the attack controller. As it stands, battle reports are displaying the correct losses, but the controller appears to be setting an incorrect actual loss (seen in my details data view - returning generals).

This should be easily fixable tomorrow.

The exciting thing about this is, I think it's going to solve all our "zeroed out" battles once and for all. In my testing I sent a force of 3k units against a force of 500k units and only sustained around 2500 casualties - while inflicting around 1.5k of defender losses.

That's pretty exciting, it seems the casualty/survivor bug fix seems to also fix the common zero out conditions.

Sooooo, tomorrow I'll hit up the attack controller bug, and run some more lopsided battle tests to see if this really fixed it. If it does, then we get the unit weighted damage allocation in place, and boom we're gonna be all set for a smooth new test round next week with awesome balanced battles 💪

trupheus

Lord Thane

Could we get a locked dev post for what the changes are going to be/have been going into the new round? If a good thread pops up discussing a change, put a link to it in the dev post.

Or throw a clear marker in the change log of this is everything that happened in beta 1

bierlym

Thanks for all your hard work on the bugs and improving the game!

MithicYort

trupheus There's two locations right now that I know of for fixes. I'll link them below. Hopefully this is helpful! The first one has specific dates when each thing was fixed.

https://thardferr.com/changelog/

https://forum.thardferr.com/d/33-backlog

Mack10

RobinHood Did you attack the Dragon or the Man and did you attack in the niiiiiiight?

Lord Thane

Got the last few bugs fixed that I had seen in attack tests last night. It actually wasn't the "end zero out conditions" fixer that I was thinking it might be - I was just confused my test attacks on my phone last night because I hadn't figured in healed troops from medical centers lol

But 3 good bugs fixed anyways. One bug the medical centers weren't adding healed troops into the returning general army. Another bug caused the entire army to get removed instead of just the casualties, another bug was not pulling garrisoned troops out of the system correctly (was adding healed/survived troops to both the garrison and also the general returning).

I think these 3 bugs were probably offshoots from the big bug fix yesterday. That big bug fix spawned bugs that weren't present under the old bugged calc, it's because those systems were built to work specifically with the bugged code, so now that the fix is in place we're kind of having to work backwards updating things to work under the new/correct calc.

Crossing fingers this is the end of it... But I still have the unit weighted damage allocation to implement as the final touch, so maybe some more bugs from that lol

Lord Thane

Latest Bug Squash
This is a bug that came about from the castle based defense. Multi-part bug that spawned more bugs as I fixed previous bugs. The gist of it was, which initially caught players attention is that the rule for "defend with 70-80%" was inadvertently causing that 20-30% of troops that stayed behind in the castles to get deleted... So someone could attack you with 1 troop and you would essentially lose 20-30% of your garrisoned troops.

Once fixing that it spawned additional bugs causing the new logic for castle based defense to not work, requiring extensive rewriting to get it to work = a snapshot of the garrison taken before any battle calcs (at 20-30%) is taken and held on the side, we clone the full garrison and remove castle based scaling %, run that scaled clone through battle calc, add the survivors from the scaled clone battle to the garrison snapshot = original snapshot (your 20-30% garrison) has correct number of casualties removed from the battle.

Confident this is a good fix. Tests came out good, troops killed all match up, returning general troops match up, no doubling of attacker garrison or other weirdness.

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