Drop The Flag Help

Adventurer
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I cant finish Drop the Flag and i am going to quit playing because i am not moving forward in the game.

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Post some code and ask for guidance. This game is about learning. Not trying on your own then giving up because it’s too hard. There’s a lot of very smart folks here willing to help you.

Explain what is happening and why you think it’s not working the way you want it, etc

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loop:
    flag = self.findFlag()
    if flag:
        # How do we get fx and fy from the flag's pos?
        # (Look below at how to get x and y from items.)
        self.pickUpFlag(flag)
    else:
        item = self.findNearestItem()
        if item:
            itemPos = item.pos
            itemX = itemPos.x
            itemY = itemPos.y
            self.moveXY(itemX, itemY)
            self.buildXY('fire-trap', 30, 31)
            self.moveXY(18, 33)
            self.buildXY('fire-trap', 30, 45)
            self.moveXY(18, 33)
            self.buildXY('fire-trap', 30, 16)
            self.moveXY(18, 33)

This is my code so far.

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I guess its just that the character is not fast enough to place down the fire trap and get everywhere.

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and once I did defeat all the ogres, but i didn’t have enough time to collect the coins.

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It isn’t that you aren’t fast enough. What you are supposed to do conceptually on this level is to use the flags to tell your hero when/where to build a fire trap. Right now it looks like you aren’t really using the flag and are just building a fire trap on each x after each coin.

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Yaur is correct. The intention of the level is to use your flags to plant fire traps, and your character (between the times you’ve manually had it plant a fire trap with a flag) will be automatically collecting coins.

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And all levels are made to be able to be solved by warriors which are the usually the slowest so it is always possible to pase

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The problem is that you aren’t really doing anything with the flags. You just pick up a flag if it is placed, otherwise you move to the nearest item, then build traps in each spot.

Instead, when you find a flag, go place a firetrap there.

loop:
    flag = self.findFlag()
    if flag:
        # How do we get fx and fy from the flag's pos?
        # (Look below at how to get x and y from items.)
        flagpos = flag.pos
        flagX = flagpos.x
        flagY = flagpos.y
        self.buildXY('fire-trap',flagX,flagY)
        self.pickUpFlag(flag)
    else:
        item = self.findNearestItem()
        if item:
            itemPos = item.pos
            itemX = itemPos.x
            itemY = itemPos.y
            self.moveXY(itemX, itemY)

That will do better. Just only place a flag when you are wanting to place a fire trap there.

Also, notice how I formatted your last message to display code properly. (If you edit the post you can see that I added three ` marks before and after the code so that it would look pretty)

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Okay thank you for the help I appreciate it. =)

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// You need nothing, but some variables and stuff.
loop{
var flag = this.findFlag();
var item = this.findNearestEnemy();
if(flag) {
var fx = flag.pos.x;
var fy = flag.pos.y;
// How do we get the fx fy from the flag's pos?
this.buildXY("fire-trap" flag.pos.x, flag.pos.y);
this.pickUpFlag(flag);
}
else if(item) {
var itemPos = item.pos;
var itemX = item.pos.x;
var itemY = item.pos.y;
this.moveXY(itemX, itemY);
}
}
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You must place the flag where you want to build traps. If theres not a flag, pick up the coins if there are coins. Don’t just use static code.

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I think after over 1 month of inactivity you can expect a topic to be finished. You do not have to resurrect it from the dead.

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I still have this issue: my code is:

loop{
var flag = this.findFlag();
var item = this.findNearestItem();
if(flag) {
this.buildXY(“fire-trap”, flag.pos.x, flag.pos.y); // This line Error, expected an identifier
this.pickUpFlag(flag);
}
else if(item) {
var itemPos = item.pos;
var itemX = item.pos.x;
var itemY = item.pos.y;
this.moveXY(itemX, itemY);
}
}

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Please read the FAQ on how to properly format your code

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3 posts were split to a new topic: “Item is null” despite if(item)