== TODO ==

== POST PYWEEK ==

* Add invalid cursor sprite

* <confluence> We should have text images instead of buttons (in the various menus and toolbars).

* Persistent high scores 

* Better fox move logic
  - Tweak weighting of free chickens
  - Foxes should eat the chickens immediately when they move onto the
    occupied square - avoid the fox drawn on top of chicken thing.

* More game levels / progression of difficulty

* Improve performance when many foxes or chickens

* Improve Fullscreen mode (on the fly scaling)

* Investigate using infinity symbol instead of dash for unlimited mode

== ISSUES ==

23:26 <@Derakon> Jerith: http://paste.ubuntu.com/266865/
23:26 <@Derakon> That's with the OSX .dmg.

From the pastebin URL above: """
dyld: lazy symbol binding failed: Symbol not found: _pthread_cond_init$UNIX2003
  Referenced from: /Volumes/Operation Fox Assault/Operation Fox Assault.app/Contents/Frameworks/libpython2.5.dylib
  Expected in: /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib

dyld: Symbol not found: _pthread_cond_init$UNIX2003
  Referenced from: /Volumes/Operation Fox Assault/Operation Fox Assault.app/Contents/Frameworks/libpython2.5.dylib
  Expected in: /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib

Sep  7 14:25:21 Kleine crashdump[402]: Operation Fox Assault crashed
Sep  7 14:25:21 Kleine crashdump[402]: crash report written to: /Users/chriswei/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/Operation Fox Assault.crash.log
"""

pygame event queue full bug.
Sep 10 22:01: <eltigre> one IndexError and one pygame event overflow
...
Sep 10 23:15: <eltigre> Hodgestar, jerith : http://dpaste.com/91590/

From pastebin:
"""
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "run_game.py", line 4, in <module>
    main.main()
  File "/home/andi/projekte/pyweek/Rinkhals/foxassault-1.0.0/gamelib/main.py", line 38, in main
    engine.run(MainMenuState(engine), screen)
  File "/home/andi/projekte/pyweek/Rinkhals/foxassault-1.0.0/pgu/engine.py", line 104, in run
    self.loop()
  File "/home/andi/projekte/pyweek/Rinkhals/foxassault-1.0.0/pgu/engine.py", line 123, in loop
    if self.fnc('event',e): return
  File "/home/andi/projekte/pyweek/Rinkhals/foxassault-1.0.0/pgu/engine.py", line 79, in fnc
    if v != None: r = f(v)
  File "/home/andi/projekte/pyweek/Rinkhals/foxassault-1.0.0/gamelib/engine.py", line 229, in event
    return pygame.event.post(START_DAY)
pygame.error: Event queue full
"""
 - r370 disables timer events while processing the fox movements and
   chicken attacks. This should make this bug harder to trigger.


Leaking weakref objects bug (reported by tumbleweed):
 - this is probably http://pygame.motherhamster.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=30


== COMMENTS ==

Farmer's weekly (daily?) -- egg/chicken/fox report thing. (Yay Marc!)

23:41 <@Derakon> The instructions could also be more detailed, but the game's pretty intuitive once you realize that it's not realtime.
00:03 < Rhamphoryncus> hrm.  Instructions need work.. yup, that got said, heh

00:10 <@Derakon> An auto-repair fences command would be handy.
00:12 <@Derakon> Man, fence repair is nuking my budget.
00:13 <@AnnoDomini> Fences made of wood are overrated.
00:13 <@AnnoDomini> I make a fence of elite fighting fowl.
00:13  * Derakon nods.
00:15 <@Derakon> Suddenly the game gets much easier~

00:28 <@Derakon> I want a faster way to sell eggs. ._.
00:29 <@Derakon> Some way to say "Keep enough eggs to mature the maximum number of chickens as quickly as possible; sell the rest."
00:33 <@jerith> Derakon: Superfluous eggs autosell.
00:34 <@jerith> A chicken lays some number of eggs. On of those eggs will hatch, the rest will sell.
00:34 <@Derakon> Oooh.
00:34 <@Derakon> Okay, then I can stop bothering to click so much. Thanks.

00:38 <@AnnoDomini> Needs an 'evict all' button.

00:40 <@Derakon> And a way to drag-clear trees, drag-sell chickens (or auto-sell naked outdoor chickens).
00:42 <@Derakon> So...much...clicking... ;.;

00:50 <@AnnoDomini> http://i30.tinypic.com/sx15k1.jpg

01:19 < Rhamphoryncus> Do you know what watch towers are for?
01:20 <@Derakon> I think the watchtowers might make riflehens more effective somehow.
01:20 <@Derakon> Or maybe they're bunkers.

01:24 < Rhamphoryncus> And I have no idea what my income is from
01:24 <@Derakon> Killing foxes and selling stuff.
01:25 < Rhamphoryncus> I have spare room around my  henhouses, so autosell isn't happening.  It must be from killing foxes
01:27 <@AnnoDomini> Rhamphoryncus: I expect you get eggs sold. Hens lay eggs every turn, but incubate for two. So you get N*5 cash for each hen in a henhouse/hendominium per turn.

01:31 < Rhamphoryncus> It seems like, long term, you want to pack hendominiums in with no space around them
01:32 < Rhamphoryncus> As you fill a grid like that you'll still have exposed edges, producing tons of chickens
01:32 <@AnnoDomini> Aren't overflow chickens autokilled, rather the eggs never hatching and being sold?
01:33 <@Derakon> No idea.
01:33 <@AnnoDomini> That's what I read in the instructions.
01:33 < Rhamphoryncus> I thought they were autosold.  I may have been confusing with the egg autosell though
01:33 <@AnnoDomini> Eggs autosell if there's no room. Chickens die.

05:41 <@Derakon> 2x2 pods of knifehens are almost invincible.
05:57 <@Derakon> Oh, hey, the 2x2 pod of knifehens is not invulnerable. The foxes finally killed one after losing some 1500 of their own.

05:45  * Vornicus-Latens thinks this game needs less shouty graphics.

08:37 < Rhamphoryncus> jerith: feature request: automatically switch to an offset breeding schedule.  IOW, a henhouse should only do 3/day and a hendemonium should only do 6/day

08:50 < Rhamphoryncus> and if I go and sell an egg in a henhouse/hendominium, is it supposed to take multiple clicks?
[ed: He didn't know it was multiple eggs.]

09:12 < Reivthia> Jerith: UI improvement: *Please* let us click&drag.
09:12 < Reivthia> I want to be able to not have to click every single chicken/tree seperately when I have five thousand cash :P

09:12 < Rhamphoryncus> My huts get ignored
09:12 < Reivthia> Rham: I thought mine were too, until they got occasionally pounced.
09:12 < Reivthia> Very, very occasionally


And here's me rapid-fire rambling at #ctpug after finishing my first long game. (Unedited.)

20:34 < jerith> Nitwit: Had some ideas while playing just now.
20:34 <&Nitwit> ?
20:35 < jerith> I want a "sell all naked outdoor chickens" button.
20:35 < jerith> And a "sell all superfluous eggs" button.
20:35 < jerith> Also, chickens should hatch into squares at the corners of the henhouses.
20:36 <&Nitwit> We're either going to have to expand the game window, or somehow compress the other menu options
20:37 < superfly> Nitwit: use a smaller font?
20:37 -!- confluence [confluence@atrum-A04B64E5.telkomadsl.co.za] has joined #ctpug
20:37 -!- mode/#ctpug [+ao confluence confluence] by ChanServ
20:37 < jerith> I'd be happy with an "advanced" menu.
20:37 < jerith> Hey confluence.
20:37 <&Nitwit> I've been toying with the idea of unifying the buildings into a "buy building" button and "select building" dialog - that will free up a couple of 
                buttons & give us space to put building prices
20:37 <&confluence> Hello
20:37 < jerith> Also, we need to do a proper toolbar thing.
20:37 < jerith> That will save us space.
20:37 < jerith> Nitwit: That also works.
20:38 <&Nitwit> I don't want to do the same for equipment though, as I find I use those buttons much more often
20:38 < jerith> If possible, I'd like to make the "right click cancels current thing" global.
20:39 < jerith> Oh, there's a cursor display bug when moving chickens into and out of buildings.
20:39 < jerith> Also when deslecting a chicken to move.
20:40 < jerith> Then there are some nice-to-haves.
20:41 < jerith> Generating the gameboard instead of using a template.
20:41 < jerith> Being able to select groups of chickens to work with.
20:41 < jerith> Possibly even customisable ones.
20:41 < jerith> That makes no sense outside my head.
20:42 < jerith> Okay, two things.
20:42 <&Nitwit> I like the idea of being able to have pre-determined maps 
20:42 < jerith> Select a group of chickens and say "put these over there".
20:42 < jerith> Also, select a group of chickens and say "these are soldiers, re-equip them every turn if necessary".
20:43 < jerith> So chicken classes, in other words.
20:44 < jerith> If you sell a chicken with eggs, are you supposed to get paid out for the eggs too?
20:44 < jerith> I think I tried it and didn't.
20:44 < jerith> But I could be wrong.
20:45 < jerith> We need some settings -- sound on/off at the least.
20:45 < jerith> Why is resizing things in Windows a problem, by the way?
20:46 < jerith> I seem to be throwing stuff into this channel at an alarming rate. Remind me to look at the logs when I have a moment or three.
20:46 <&Nitwit> jerith: Not getting the money for the eggs probably a bug 
20:47 < jerith> Wishlist for buildings: opening a building opens a dialog you can move around with little chicken slots in it.
20:48 < jerith> That'll be hard in pgu, though.
20:49 < jerith> We need some harder foxes.
20:49 < jerith> Maybe foxes that hit harder and/or are tougher.
20:49 < jerith> We can have them triggered by the killed foxes count.
20:49 < jerith> Thus, you get harder baddies as you get better at killing baddies.
20:50 < jerith> Saving and loading games would be great, especially for the longer games.
20:51 < jerith> Also different game scenarios -- one where you start off with lots of money and only a week, but foxes come faster, for example.
20:51 < jerith> And alternate win conditions, as confluence mentioned.
20:52 < jerith> Maybe reachaing a certain cash level.
20:52 < jerith> Also bigger game boards once we can scroll, although that getts difficult in night mode.
20:52 < jerith> Forests should give foxes a stealth bonus.