Looping Battles

[Epiales]

Okay, since I decided to make my arena battles a place for player muggings I have to rewrite the entire battle scenario for the new arena ranking/battle system.

What I want to do is loop the battle until one or the other runs out of their guards, and then put the actual player into the battle using their hitpoints. So like their guards will be there protecting their main character, but when the guards are gone, they have to enter the fight with their hitpoints. And loop this scenario until they are out of guards AND out of hitpoints. One or the other anyway. If the attack runs out first, or if the defender runs out first.

Sounds sooooo complicated, but is there a way? Right now I have it single attacked based. Code below:

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<?php
if($attack_effect < $defense_effect){        
            
            $gun_lost = rand(3,8) + $enemy_stats['level'];
            $guard_lost = rand(3,8) + $enemy_stats['level'];
            $turnsused = rand(1,5);
            $currentturns = $stats['turns'];
            $newturns = $currentturns - $turnsused;
            echo "<font color='red'>You have lost the battle</font>"; ?><br /><br />
            
            <?php echo "You<font color='red'> lost</font> <font color='lime'>$gun_lost gunmen</font> and <font color='lime'>$guard_lost guards!</font>  You used " . $turnsused . " turns this round." ?>
            <br />
            <?php echo "You have $unit[guards] guards remaining before you enter the arena!"; ?>
            <br /><br />
            <?php
            
            $guard_lost = rand(1,2) + $stats['level'];
            $gun_lost = rand(1,2) + $stats['level'];
            echo "$u_name[username] <font color='red'>lost</font> <font color='lime'> " . $guard_lost . " guards</font> and <font color='lime'>$gun_lost gunmen!</font>"; ?>
            <br />
            <?php echo "$u_name[username] has $e_guards[guards] guards remaining before they enter the arena!";            
            

            }else{

But I really don't want people to have to click, click, click, click, click. So making a loop until their guards and hitpoints are depleted would be the best scenario if possible. Thanks!

[Epiales]

OMG I'm tired of searching LOL... I'll jump back on this later. I'll go ahead and just do it turn based for now.

[MikuzA]

ok..

So Instead of doing it turn based, you want it to loop through it one go?

Example, this?
Enter battle (Loop):

Loop until someone is dead {
battle-calc(player1 vs player2)
}


If so,

add a while loop using a pre-defined variable, which is altered to break the loop until someone is dead.

But doing this has a huge possibility of something going unexpectedly and causing the massive loop to loop on to forever.
Add a precaution by estimating a maxlimit on loops, let's set 100.
Like

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$someonegotkilled = 0;
$maxloop = 100;

while ( $someonegotkilled = 0 ) {
//insert your awesome calculations here..

if ( $player1 == DEAD OR $player2 == DEAD ) { // doesn't work like this but as an example ;)
    $someonegotkilled = 1;
}

$maxloop--;
IF($maxloop < 1) { print "Max Loops achieved, halting"; break; }

}
 

Could this help?

[Epiales]

ok..

So Instead of doing it turn based, you want it to loop through it one go?

Example, this?
Enter battle (Loop):

Loop until someone is dead {
battle-calc(player1 vs player2)
}


If so,

add a while loop using a pre-defined variable, which is altered to break the loop until someone is dead.

But doing this has a huge possibility of something going unexpectedly and causing the massive loop to loop on to forever.
Add a precaution by estimating a maxlimit on loops, let's set 100.
Like

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$someonegotkilled = 0;
$maxloop = 100;

while ( $someonegotkilled = 0 ) {
//insert your awesome calculations here..

if ( $player1 == DEAD OR $player2 == DEAD ) { // doesn't work like this but as an example ;)
    $someonegotkilled = 1;
}

$maxloop--;
IF($maxloop < 1) { print "Max Loops achieved, halting"; break; }

}

Could this help?

Not sure yet I need sleep lol... I will look more closely later today and see if I can't figure something out. Thank you! At least I have some sort of a start now YAY! Codes a bit confusing, as I'm not familiar with looping or any of that yet. So I'll tamper with it a bit.

[MikuzA]

This sentence used in PHP.net explains while so that you might remember it next time you loop,

The meaning of a while statement is simple. It tells PHP to execute the nested statement(s) repeatedly, as long as the while expression evaluates to TRUE.

[Epiales]

Told ya I didn't know much about it. Am I even close?

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        $user_check = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM `stats` WHERE `id`='".$id."'") or die(mysql_error());
        $enemy_name = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM `user` WHERE `id`='".$id."'") or die(mysql_error());
            $u_name = mysql_fetch_assoc($enemy_name);
        $enemy_guards = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM `unit` WHERE `id`='".$id."'") or die(mysql_error());
            $e_guards = mysql_fetch_assoc($enemy_guards);
        $enemy_defense = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM `stats` WHERE `id`='".$id."'") or die(mysql_error());
            $e_defense = mysql_fetch_assoc($enemy_defense);    
        $enemy_attack = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM `stats` WHERE `id`='".$id."'") or die(mysql_error());
            $e_attack = mysql_fetch_assoc($enemy_attack);
        $enemy_hpoints = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM `stats` WHERE `id`='".$id."'") or die(mysql_error());
            $e_hpoints = mysql_fetch_assoc($enemy_hpoints);            
        
         $enemy_stats = mysql_fetch_assoc($user_check);

$attack_effect = rand(1,5) * $stats['attack'];
            $defense_effect = rand(1,5) * $e_defense['defense'];
             echo "You send your gunmen into battle!<br><br>";
            echo "Your gunmen dealt " . number_format($attack_effect) . " damage!<br>"; //How much damage they did to enemy
            echo "$u_name[username] blocks for " . number_format($defense_effect) . " points!<br><br>";    
           
        $attacker = $user['username'];
        $defender = $u_name['username'];
        $a_attack = $stats['attack'];
        $a_defense = $stats['defense'];        
        $d_attack = $e_attack['attack'];
        $d_defense = $e_defense['defense'];
        $a_hitpoints = $stats['hpoints'];
        $d_hitpoints = $e_hpoints['hpoints'];
        $a_guards = $unit['guards'];
        $d_guards = $e_guards['guards'];
        $attack_effect = rand(1,5) * $a_attack;
        $defense_effect = rand(1,5) * $d_defense;        
        $a = $a_hitpoints;
        $d = $d_hitpoints;

        $someonegotkilled = 0;
        $maxloop = 100;

        while ( $someonegotkilled = 0 ) {
        if($attack_effect < $defense_effect){        
            
        $new_d_hitpoints = $d - $defense_effect;
        $new_a_hitpoints = $a - $defense_effect;

        if ( $new_a_hitpoints == 0 OR $new_d_hitpoints == 0 ) {
        $someonegotkilled = 1;
        $updateplayer="update stats set hpoints='$new_a_hitpoints' WHERE id='$id'";
        mysql_query($updateplayer) or die ("Could not update player");    
}
        $maxloop--;
        if($maxloop < 1) { echo "<font color='red'>You have lost the battle</font>";  <br /><br />

Nothing happens, so I guess not

[Epiales]

I changed while ( $someonegotkilled = 1 and then attack. It loops for about 30 seconds and then:

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Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in C:\xampp\htdocs\flash\mafiaboss2.php on line 162

[Epiales]

Okay, I got a LOOP YAY... But the loop goes on forever lol... It just repeats the sending gunmen into battle and how much the defense and attack was

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 $someonegotkilled = 0;
        $maxloop = 10;

        while ( $someonegotkilled = 1 ) {
        
        
        $attack_effect = rand(1,5) * $stats['attack'];
            $defense_effect = rand(1,5) * $e_defense['defense'];
             echo "You send your gunmen into battle!<br><br>";
            echo "Your gunmen dealt " . number_format($attack_effect) . " damage!<br>"; //How much damage they did to enemy
            echo "$u_name[username] blocks for " . number_format($defense_effect) . " points!<br><br>";    

        if($attack_effect < $defense_effect){        
            
        $new_d_hitpoints = $d - $defense_effect;
        $new_a_hitpoints = $a - $defense_effect;
         $updateattacker="update stats set hpoints='$new_a_hitpoints' WHERE id='$_SESSION[uid]'";
        mysql_query($updateattacker) or die ("Could not update player"); 
        $updatedefender="update stats set hpoints='$new_d_hitpoints' WHERE id='$id'";
        mysql_query($updatedefender) or die ("Could not update player"); 
        
        
           
        if ( $new_a_hitpoints == 0 OR $new_d_hitpoints == 0 ) {
        $someonegotkilled = 0;
       
}
        $maxloop--;
        if($maxloop < 1) { echo "<font color='red'>You have lost the battle</font>";   <br /><br />} 

[Epiales]

Okay, I"m closer YAY. I still loops for the 30 seconds and gives the exceeded 30 second thingy message But at least now the numbers in the database for the hitpoints is changing... but going into negative numbers lol. New code:

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        $someonegotkilled = 0;
        $maxloop = 10;

        while ( $someonegotkilled = 1 ) {
        
        
        $attack_effect = rand(1,5) * $stats['attack'];
            $defense_effect = rand(1,5) * $e_defense['defense'];
            
        $new_d_hitpoints = $d - $defense_effect;
        $new_a_hitpoints = $a - $defense_effect;            
        $updateattacker="update stats set hpoints='$new_a_hitpoints' WHERE id='$_SESSION[uid]'";
        mysql_query($updateattacker) or die ("Could not update player"); 
        $updatedefender="update stats set hpoints='$new_d_hitpoints' WHERE id='$id'";
        mysql_query($updatedefender) or die ("Could not update player");            
        if($attack_effect < $defense_effect){        
        
        
           
        if ( $a == 0 OR $d == 0 ) {
        $someonegotkilled = 0;
       
}
        $maxloop--;
        if($maxloop < 1) { echo "<font color='red'>You have lost the battle</font>";   <br /><br />}
 

[Epiales]

Okay, done messing with it for now. Brain is twitterpated again