Are we allowed to summon units in Cloudrip Treasure?

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Whenever I try to summon a soldier in Cloudrip Treasure, my hero acts as if I told her to summon a unit when she didn’t have enough gold, even though I specifically put if self.gold >= 20. Is this intentional, a bug, or my code?

My Code 
def summonSoldier():
    if self.gold >= 20:
        self.summon("soldier")
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Well, really you should be using “costOf”.

But I haven’t played that level yet. so I’m not sure about the general summon question.

[edit:]
OK, I just ran the level, and used “self.say(self.gold)” which you should have done… :smile:

@Catsync the level doesn’t wipe the hero’s gold . . . it said “60” which is correct for Boss Star III and not zero . . . so “I” see 60 gold and therefore try to summon but “coco” sees less gold and so no soldier appears. I submitted a patch that also wipes the hero’s gold so they don’t think they have gold they don’t have.
[edit-edit] Patch only worked for me, after it saved then it didn’t even work for me … Still working on it. for now work around would be to self.wait(0.00000000001) or make sure you take some other action is taken before you summon.

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Was talking to Vlevo about this earlier, the fix doesn’t fix all cases - it’s weird.

I think the easiest workaround for now is to stick something like: self.wait(0.001) at the top of your code, until we figure out something better :confounded:

4

Shouldn’t all boss stars be banned for the treasure levels

5

Just a quick feedback on CloudRip treasure. I ran the code on my wife’s account that didn’t have Twilight glasses and the findItems() or findByType(“coin”) can’t see through mountains. Took me a while to understand why my peasants were not behaving as I expeted them to.

I think players should be warned or the twilight glasses should be a requiered equipment for the level.

I didn’t try

peasant.findItems()

because it doesn’t fit my coding style. Maybe that works though. I eventually bought the damn glasses :smile:

@Feinty : the idea in CloudRip treasure is to command peasants to loot coins. Can’t do that without bossStars.

Another little feedback : decoy don’t bounce on the walls in this level. I don’t use decoys very often, but the several times I did, they bounced on the wall. Here they get stuck in corners, which decreases their value because their aggro range isn’t infinite. Also, intended or not, Decoys collect coins.

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Yes, this is a case where the peasants should be doing the looking for themselves, they know how to:
findNearest, distanceTo, findItems, and findNearestItem (other things to, but those don’t matter here).

8

Interesting. I was totally stuck because the peasants were responding strangely and ended up all in a clump running into each other. I was using:

var coin = friend.findNearest(friend.findItems());

When @Vlevo mentioned available methods, I tried:

var coin = friend.findNearestItem();

And it works perfectly. Aren’t these statements supposed to be the same thing? Why didn’t the first one work? IS there a bug? Or are they supposed to work differently?