This additional content explores the aftermath of an event in The Ensign. A large dungeon, The Executioner, reveals the fate of one of the Wanderers’ most powerful weapons though multiple wings, each ending with a unique boss encounter. The fabricator allows the player to craft powerful items out of alien alloy, introducing new combat mechanics.
Limited subset of commits:
* unified function for healing (Events.doHeal);
* unified function for attacks (Events.damage);
* check if health is max, and disable healing buttons (Events.setHeal and related calls)
* grouping buttons (attackButtons, healButtons and exitButtons for weapon attacks, meat & meds, continue/leave)
As some of them are related to each other, this commit involves a lot of updates.
* Autopause on blur. This is an idea I took from Gridland (!), if window loses focus the fight pauses (timed check courtesy of the enemy), and it restarts when the window has focus again (if the pause button is clicked, then the player must click again in order to resume).
* Delayed start for fights. This will allow players to read the description without the player attacking them. No way to cheat, buttons are not enabled. I used Events._LEAVE_COOLDOWN as cooldown time, not for laziness, but because I guess the two durations have the same purpose: to allow (force) the player to read stuff.
* Take everything and leave just by name. If the player can just take something, the text is "take all you can", if they can take everything but there are several options it's "take everything", if the option is only one the text is "take everything and X", where X is the verb of the only possible option (note: in the latter case, the button cools down together with the option itself).
* success/failure mechanics no longer relies upon try/catch, but on a simple mechanism: a variable taking a bool value, set to true when one of the end conditions happens. The precedence goes to the enemy (if the player kills and dies the fight is lost).
Events.setHeal() enables/disables eatMeat and useMeds buttons depending on player's HP.
The check is done in 4 cases:
* when a fight starts
* after an attack
* after healing
* in the loot screen
Events.damage method now groups all common lines for Events.animateRanged and Events.animateMelee.
Balance between success and failure is now determined by Events.lost. It is set to "true" when the player is killed and prevents Events.winFight() altogether.
Events.endFight() groups the 2 consistent actions in winFight and loseFight, i.e., pause unsetting and stopping the enemy.
Completely renewed trap method: instead of relying on a separate counter, enemy.data('stunned') now returns the number of remaining seconds of stunning. Enemy's timed attack decreases this value by the attack delay time (the enemy fights for its freedom).
This commit adds a pause button during the fight. It relies upon the new
Events.paused property: when set to true, no buttons will work except
the pause button itself, and cooldown on attack/healing buttons is
interrupted.
This commit also groups event buttons in different groups (attack,
healing, scene), so that the position of "eat meat" and "use meds" does
not depend on how many scene buttons are present (sometimes 1, other
times 2)
The change is somehow linguistic, rather than anything else.
"Take everything and leave" changes name and becomes "Take everything and X", where X is the verb of the command it impersonates.
This way after completing mines e.g. it is "Take everything and continue", acting like "continue" button.
It now also cools down if it impersonates a "leave" button (leave buttons cool down. IDK why).
Kept the distinction between "argument" time and script time. I called the latter "time" instead of "milliseconds" because, well, it's just tenth of seconds.
Residual timeout is always stored in "nominal" time, not adjusted by hyper. I.e. if a button has a nominal timeout of 60 seconds and half cooldown had expired on reload, residual is stored as 300. In cooldown, Engine.setInterval makes the time flow with double speed
Export dialog replaces selection dialog, rather than overlapping it.
Closing it exits the panel and returns to current game.
Aborting Import dialog returns the player to the selection screen, so that s/he can save before trying to load.
An event could produce different notifications or rewards according to different outcomes of the event itself (e.g. a negative event impacting on buildings and/or villagers, or a wanderer leaving items of some specific kind), but the notification is generated before the onLoad() call.
I'd say that this is the best action order:
1. event action
2. event notification
3. event reward (and possible additional notifications due to that)
Noticed when buying the compass.
I found it weird that *first* the compass points and *then* it appears in good condition.
Now event notification precedes event reward, and it should be corrected.
Cleans up global variable that was introduced in favor of a variable in
Events. Removes type checking from conditionals and instead sets
BLINK_INTERVAL variable to false when stopped.
Adding this cooldown prevents users from accidently clicking leave or
continue before they have a chance to eat or collect loot. This was
originally brought up in and resolves#8. May be of interest to #122 as
well
Michael Townsend