[Pcgen-trackers] [ pcgen-Plugin Bugs-1449193 ] Modifying Init in GMGen

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Plugin Bugs item #1449193, was opened at 2006-03-13 17:42
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Category: Initiative Module
Group: To be Fixed for 5.10
Status: Open
Resolution: Later
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Big J Money (bigjmoney)
Assigned to: Devon Jones (soulcatcher)
Summary: Modifying Init in GMGen

Initial Comment:
Manually inputing initiatives for combatants into 
combat/initiative tab does not alter their turn order 
in the round.  This is the case if you try to do it 
before the combat or during.  This causes two 
problems:

#1 For GMs who wish to allow their players to roll 
their own inits and them input them manually into the 
combat.

#2 When characters ready/delay and it changes their 
init during combat.

In either of these cases, every creature in the 
encounter has to have their turn order manually 
altered to continue in the correct sequence.  I'm 
assuming this is a bug and not a feature!

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>Comment By: Big J Money (bigjmoney)
Date: 2006-06-20 18:44

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Oh yeah, version 5.8.1 on Win XP...

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Comment By: Big J Money (bigjmoney)
Date: 2006-06-20 18:41

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I originally did a poor job of researching this bug, but 
have extensive information on it now.  I was mislabeling 
the symptoms.  There appears to be two problems 
contributing to this bug, and I have detailed them here.  
First, however, let me be clear about GMGen's 
functionality.  The values in the top right corner of the 
Initiative Tab are supposed to represent the round number 
and current initiative value, correct?  "1 (23)" stands 
for Round 1, Initiative 23, correct?  Here is where there 
is erroneous behavior.

Problem1:
First of all, let me declare the top right corner value to 
be i.  When "Start Combat" is pressed, the value of i 
is "0 (X)", where X is either the higest initiative value 
or 20, whichever is greater.  I am going to refer to this 
as "initial i", since its value determines future 
behavior. Note for Problem2 that if you manually enter an 
initiative, and it becomes the greatest value, initial i 
does not change accordingly.  Problem1 assumes you are NOT 
manually entering any initiatives, however, which could 
invalidate the test (so don't do it yet).

If the highest initiative is less than 20 when you 
click "Next Initiative", no problems occur, and i 
becomes "1 (X)", where X is the highest initiative less 
than 20.  If the highest initiative is greater than 19, 
then the combat will actually begin with the second 
participant, and X will equal the second highest 
initiative value.  In this case, when "Next Initiative" is 
clicked after the last participant, the first participant 
will finally be up, and i remains "1 (X)", where X equals 
their (highest) initiative.  Basically, this means the 
first person in the round ends up going last.  i does not 
become "2 (X)" until the second participant is up again.

Solution: Maybe have initial i equal "0 (X+1)", where X is 
the highest initiative.  That way, when i becomes "1 (X)", 
it will be correct.

Problem2:
When you manually enter initiative values, things get even 
worse.  It would be too extensive to explain it in 
deatail, but knowing that manually entering the initiative 
does not affect initial i should be enough to reproduce 
the second problem.  There is one specific note of 
importance, however.  Not only is manually editing an 
inititive before clicking "Next Initiative" for the first 
time a problem, but changing an initiaitive to be both 
greater than 19 and the new highest initiative causes 
things to go out of whack, as well.  It seems to have 
something to do with something GMGen does at the end of 
every round.  You can see it yourself by having no 
initiatives greater than 19 and completing one round of 
cmbat.  There will be a "Y (20)" at the _end_ of every 
round, rather than the beginning.

Solution: I can't even suggest, since I don't know what's 
going on.  Solving this problem would probably solve 
Problem1 automatically, though.

Any questions, please update this, since it sends it to my 
email.  Thanks.

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Comment By: Eddy Anthony (eddyanthony)
Date: 2006-06-19 23:40

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I can't reproduce this either, manually editing the init causes the order to change 
imedietly as it should.

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Comment By: Devon Jones (soulcatcher)
Date: 2006-06-18 12:57

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I can't reproduce this.  Is this on Mac? (Tested on 5.10.x)

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