Topic: [ANN][HUC] Huntercoin - Worlds First Decentralized Game/World on the Blockchain - page 57. (Read 879551 times)

wiggi,

whats your preferred donation address ?

Design of the zombies vs lemures arena, normal obstacle map will be used.



It's almost finished. With 20 critters alive on testnet, it looks rather empty. (and given how stupid they are, interactions are rare)
I guess 50-75 would be a good balance for this small section of the map.

The critters will compete with hunters for the old gem spawn (0.86 gems per day) and they will compete among themselves for the new gew spawn (4.8 gems per day)

A new creature is always spawned if an address in the adventurers.txt list receives >3000 coins. These coins can be immediately recycled to spawn more creatures.
Amount must end with the magic number "5501" but other than that, any amount would result in a valid critter. (offspring and random mutations ahoy!)

this list has also some stats for the critters

Setting the eight numbers in the "order" column is all you can do for a creature. This is the point (to demonstrate how to kill all botting and farming with fire)

The hunters here can be long dead. And for the start on mainnet at block 1400000 I can set up any address so that it's ready to go, and no interaction with hunters in the normal Huntercoin game is needed.
Just send me PM with an address.

I'll also come up with a technical description of what all the numbers actually do

Hi sir, do you need a portuguese translation to your thread?

I hit you a pm.

CYA

A technically accurat description of 90% of the current rules is in domob's GameLogicChanges.txt.

No, it's not a picture book for beginners.

What "news" are you referring to?

I wouldn't say you can "plug and play" it yet, no. Mithril's client currently has that advantage, as well, except for the blockchain syncing time

sounds like a lot basic work to do

I've actually been recommending his client to beginner players because of the tutorial inside. The core client has instructions at this link, but they're out of date, now. Mainly, generals are no longer a thing--they're all called Hunters--and destruct doesn't kill you, but instead drains surrounding hunters' life

Is it possible to have game rules documentation readable within the classic client? Actually I don't know where to find the uptodate play instructions. I heard that third party client like MM client have something like this. that's sweet!

Again where to find the documentation regarding rules in the game?😂

Was meant literally. Huntercoin has done it already 4 time and changing game rules (as opposed to the basics of the coin itself) regularly is better than leave it in an unfinished state.

When you play a round of the game what are the 5 most simple things that would improve it the most? Everyone must be either perfectly happy with the current state or have such a wish list. I have one...


I always thought it was a darth something but it's not

Lets see how news will change price))

That creature looks like a pumpkin head. Or is that a melon? WTF

It was pretty easy to set up the skeleton of a game that will run on the Huntercoin blockchain alongside the normal game. It will look like this and I think will be playable at block 1400000.


While the creatures are named after hunters, these hunters can be long dead. (theoretically they could also be anons)

Things to choose when making a new critter: fireball range for the lemures but at exponentially increasing mana cost (they have a lifetime limit),
tendency of the zombies to teleport away (but this will also bring them away from the gems), and randomness of movement.

Basically the game is about guessing the population dynamics several hundred blocks in the future.

Once sent into battle there will be no way to control the creatures and they'll live out their lives (on the blockchain)


Compared to "Allow Standard Names in Huntercoin" (http://forum.huntercoin.org/index.php/topic,22249.0.html)
this is the pirate version. Doable right now and, of course, no 1000 Huc fee per name  

The client only interprets the (blockchain chat) messages, and some regular "send coins" transactions. When I need "markers" then the method of choice is to have the client's open source code initialize gamestate variables at certain block heights. (to avoid preloading the gamestate with "secret" data)

Compared to the normal processing of tx's and game moves, there is no noticable performance impact.
(but betterQt client need an extra minute to start because the gamestate is pruned, would be 300MB to download if not)


I don't see any bot on the map, just human farmers (they probably use the stock version of Mithrilman's client)


Yes, this is very necessary.

I can't do rule changes. Only Snailbrain can do rule changes.

So, things like gems, chronoDollar or the AI market maker just using the existing framework, which is rather flexible (but not enough).

Current game rules reward being relentless in such an extreme way that the economic metagame (plus some other things) has choked normal
gameplay. (If someone don't believe this, just go out and play for several hours, win most fights with a kill to death ratio of 2:1, then look at your bottom line, and then guess your opponents bottom line!)

Thats why the game rules need to change asap, pruning is nice but by itself won't change a thing.


If you had the power to change 5 rules (in a simple way), what would it be?

If there is no one to play the game, then what is the meaning of changing the rules? As long as the blockchain can hold the capacity of players, the rules should aim to encourage people to play. Besides changing the game rules, pruning, bug fixing, etc. kind of job indeed very necessary and dev should get many credits because of it. They have been working all these for free after all.

That's awesome, then, but where on the blockchain? Are you just inserting little markers for your client to interpret? My initial worry would be that this would bloat the system if you had AIs of greater complexity. I assumed the bots which plague our map currently live off-chain, given the number of responses and behaviors they must be programmed with.

Even so, however, we can always update protocol later once Huntercore is sorted out. I think these will be the types of features we'll be focused on. We are going to need to get your client an easy-to-install GUI for everyone, though. No plain text files allowed, sorry

Yes, it lives on the blockchain, or rather, all its data is saved there. If you start with an empty gamestate and replay the entire blockchain, then the marketmaker will be in exactly the same state as before. (for any given block height) There's also no server or similar for it, all calculations are done by the Huntercoin node.

I played well when in early 2014 and hundreds of people enjoying the game. Really disappointed to see no one playing in the game after 2 years' "DEVELOPMENT".

This brings me to another question I've been meaning to ask, which is: where does the AI live? I feel that for us to consider it a truly autonomous entity, it must live on the blockchain, with its code in the messages or something like that (or another decentralized structure). I think it's good that we can use AI bots to make NPC characters to flesh out the Huntercoin world with, and that it's OK to have them on someone's computer/server until we can upgrade the core protocol further, but long-term we should want the world to be as decentralized as possible.