In Pax Renaissance card bear different values / traits–some of these traits may be counted toward victory. I want to collate a report that would display who has how many points counting toward victory. Without loss of generality let’s assume there is just one such trait and let’s call it Z.
Cards will be placed in player window (called tableau). Player would purchase cards from the market, by right clicking on them, sending them to his tableau. Player could also discard a card from his tableau, moving it to discard pile. Again, this would be a new action in right-button menu. The tableau would be a free movement window–i.e. no grid, no resrtrictions on how card can be placed / moved. The placement of the cards in Pax Renaissance is liquid: the may be placed next to each other, or below, or can be rotated and placed one on the other–while it can be implemented into Vassal, the benefit is too little for the effort.
Each player has access to other players’ tableaus. It can open it and discard his / her cards–as one of the actions he can take during his turn.
I know how to calculate total Zs of all the cards in the player tableau. I know how to calculate total of Zs when a card is discarded. (There would be a number of Global Properties, one for each player, P1, P2, P3, P4, called PnZ, where n is the number of the player; I would updated the PnZ accordingly–that is fine).
How do I update the PnZ when the player MANUALLY moves the card from his tableau to the discard pile? Even if a discard pile would be a deck on the main map, and I would somehow capture all the cards ending the movement in the discard pile, a card can be moved first to the map and only then dragged to the discard pile.
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My approach would as follows: there would be a dynamic property called “owner” which would indicate owner of the card i.e. to which tableu it belongs currently (Pn). If empty, than there is no owner.
I would implement a set of triggers to cover following conditions (under the same key command):
- owner=="" && CurrentMap~Pn => set owner to Pn, increase PnZ (for each n);
- owner==“Pn” && CurrentMap==“Pa”, where a!=n => decrease PnZ, set owner to Pa, increase PaZ;
- owner==“Pn” && CurrentMap!=“P1” && CurrentMap!=“P2” && CurrentMap!=“P3” && CurrentMap!=“P4” => set owner to “”, decrease PnZ.
I think that would work. Your comments?