HS-aholic free heroscape iOS app

[whitestuff]

Hey, CiananBrage, I was adding my collection tonight and I think you've missed the Obsidian Guards...

I had a great game with your app providing random armies. Just a couple of questions - How can you get the app to pick from just one general? I moved all the sliders down except the general I wanted, which was moved all the way up, and I got cards from other generals in there...

Also, for one of the players Army 5 was a list of all the figures in my collection. We had 550 point armies but he had the choice of a 21,000+ point army... not that he was allowed to pick it

Fantastic app by the way.

[Wanderer999]

Please remove the limiter that prevents iOS earlier than 4.2.1 to be unuseable... The program is pretty light on coding and should easily be no prob for early versions like my own 3+ As it is now, many users cannot benefit from your program even if they choose to buy simply because they are at lower versions (and prefer to stay that way)

[CiananBrage]

Originally Posted by whitestuff

Hey, CiananBrage, I was adding my collection tonight and I think you've missed the Obsidian Guards...

I had a great game with your app providing random armies. Just a couple of questions - How can you get the app to pick from just one general? I moved all the sliders down except the general I wanted, which was moved all the way up, and I got cards from other generals in there...

Also, for one of the players Army 5 was a list of all the figures in my collection. We had 550 point armies but he had the choice of a 21,000+ point army... not that he was allowed to pick it

Fantastic app by the way.

In version 1.0 the Obsidian Guards are under Ullar (Fixed in 1.1 but Apple hasn't reviewed it yet).

Interesting on the giant army. I'll have to see if I can track it down. Likely some rarely used code path causing it. Or maybe solar flares lol

[CiananBrage]

Originally Posted by Wanderer999

Please remove the limiter that prevents iOS earlier than 4.2.1 to be unuseable... The program is pretty light on coding and should easily be no prob for early versions like my own 3+ As it is now, many users cannot benefit from your program even if they choose to buy simply because they are at lower versions (and prefer to stay that way)

Actually there's a ton of stuff in memory, especially in some of the table views and when the generator is running. So the code isn't light per say, just not tightly looped like a game would be. It generally isn't killing the CPU, just memory. Although it is a bit sluggish on iPhoneG3, but it has been a slug ever since I installed 4.x on it so I understand your hesitation.

I can easily roll back to 4.0 without any changes afaik.

I'll look into adding compatibility for 3.x (likely 3.1.3) when I release v1.2. It does complicate things a bit since the SDK had a ton of changes. I've got an old iPod 1G I can test iOS 3.1.3 on though so I will see what I can do.
--Note: From the way my 3G behaves I'm pretty certain older devices like iPhone 1G & iPod 1G will likely be quite sluggish. I had to optimize things quite a bit just to keep my 3G from annoying me too much

I hope to get v1.2 completed within the next couple of weeks (plus review time before it can hit the store).

I'm also thinking of adding another feature that allows you to export/import collections, but I'm still trying to solve the details. This would allow you to separate your collection into different sets (casual, tourney, etc.) which I figured could be useful.

[CiananBrage]

Originally Posted by whitestuff

How can you get the app to pick from just one general? I moved all the sliders down except the general I wanted, which was moved all the way up, and I got cards from other generals in there..

The short answer (especially when the rules are active in v1.1) is 'No, not really'.

By putting a single bar all the way up and the others all the way down (they can actually go behind the bottom bar a bit) you are settings the odds of random addition very low which makes a single Valkyrie army quite likely. However, the rules can add units from other Valks as needed and when the points remaining get low the generator will resort to adding any unit that fits (like Otonashi).

If you lock a specific unit into the army that has bonding within its own valkyrie (like the elves) the rules tend to help create an army that is almost entirely that valkyire. I've had good results with the Human Champions, KoW, and MacDirks also.
-->Note: Rules don't work in v1.0.

You can always tweak the army after its been generated if there is a unit you really do not want to use. Or treat it like poker by locking most of the units from the first generated group and re-rolling a few from it. All depends on the rules you want to use for drafting that game.

[Wanderer999]

Thanks for the attempt, really appreciate it if u can actually manage to allow the earlier versions to be compatible. We really rather have a slow (and sluggish) heroscape program than NO program at all :0

On behalf of the older iOS dudes, I thank u~~

[whitestuff]

Thanks for the answers and the app CB.

[MacBryce]

Looks great, man. Nice work.

If it would ever come to Android, I'd happily donate or purchase it from the market.

[CiananBrage]

Originally Posted by MacBryce

Looks great, man. Nice work.

If it would ever come to Android, I'd happily donate or purchase it from the market.

lol, so 2 android guys accosting me so far Unfortunately I don't foresee being able to invest the time I'd need to learn the SDK and port the app any time soon. (I'm already pulling 60-100hrs on any given week )

It's really punishing for small devs to deal with multiple platforms since they are so decidedly proprietary, which is good for their business but really stifles porting efforts. Leaves small devs like me to simply hope a client feels like investing the learning or some generous & knowledgeable dev out there makes a conversion system that can do at least 80% of the legwork.

Of course there's also always hope that I finally get a release out that's a hit and I make enough to take time off and start by porting that app... or I win the lottery (Got a few releases planned for this year we'll see if any rock the box office )

[CiananBrage]

HS-aholic v1.1 just went live in the App store.
This includes the following updates:
-Obsidian Guards now correctly serve Utgar.
-Added Samuel Brown. (Note: He will kill any custom you made of the same name!)
-Corrected the Rule Activation issues in the Generator.

-Added the Support page for anyone feeling generous.
-Added the Total Figure Counts to the detailed collection info page.
-Added a Dice rolling menu.
-Added Map File Viewer menu (uses iTunes File sharing and supports any file type Safari can open).

I'm already hard at work on v1.2 which plans to add:
-Support for iOS 3.1.3
-Unit Bios and Full Ability text. (and the ability to add this text to your customs)

There are other features I'm working on also like exporting/importing collection data. Adding some extra Rule Options so you can tweak the overall strength of rules as a whole. And so on.

[Wanderer999]

Nooooooo.... My iOS compatible feature got pushed back to v1.2...

[Ott]

Amazing app. I left a 5 star review, got to get this app some love.