Re: [Enigma-devel] Level "Crossfire in the making"

[Ronald Lamprecht]

Hi,

Johannes HXXsing wrote:
> [...]
> > > To guarantee fair distributions and levels that are solvable the
> > > author can declare minimum and maximum conditions and groups of
> > > oxyds like:
> > >
> > > wo:shuffleOxyd({grp1, max=0}, {grp1, grp2, min=2}, 
> > >    {grp1, grp3, min=1, max=1})
> > >
> > > As a shortcut groups of oxyds can be declared to be positioned either
> > > circular or linear. This declaration expands to all rules necessary to
> > > avoid any neighbour oxyd pairs.
> > >
> > > wo:shuffleOxyd({grp(ox1, ox2, ox3, ox4, ox5, ox6), circular=true},
> > >    {grp2, linear=true})
>
> This is your internal spec and you know what circular and 
> linear shuffling means, right? To make its way into user
> documentation this section may need some clarification.
> If you like, I can give you a hand with that.

It is very short, but it is not an internal spec. I did publish the 
complete draft on this list:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/enigma-devel/2007-10/msg00000.html

The short excerpt has just been a minor update out of version 0.6.

In the last two month I wrote about 2500 lines reference manual for the 
new API. Of course it is available in the source code repository at 
Berlios. For convenience of level authors I will upload a Windows 
compilation of the current development trunk - stay tuned.

Yes I would be happy about everyone who gives me a helping hand :-) 
Reading, verifying and finishing the reference manual and testing the 
new API, reporting remaining bugs and finally rewriting some levels.

> On a side note, I am not opposed to shuffling patterns leading
> to different degrees of complications. I sometimes like to be
> surprised if a known level is rather recreational or rather
> demanding. The solving times are meaningless to me anyway.

Even though I agree with you, that solving is more important than the 
time itself, I nearly missed the clue of your level. Besides that I know 
from the last years experience that if a level has even a slight chance 
of a shortcut due to the oxyd distribution more than 10% of the players 
will restart it hundred times to benefit and the other players will 
complain about this.

Greets,

Ronald