Powerup Curiosity

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Heya,

So I am running some tests,

I see the following under the Domain / Enums / Powerups:
namespace Sproutopia.Enums
{
public enum PowerUpType
{
NONE = 0,
TerritoryImmunity = 1,
Unprunable = 2,
Freeze = 3,
}

public enum SuperPowerUpType
{
    NONE = 0,
    TrailProtection = 4,
    SuperFertilizer = 5,
}

}

But under the botState.powerUpLocations I get example:
Power Locations:[{“location”:{“x”:14,“y”:24},“type”:14}]

Where is this Mapping found? And what am I missing that forces the type to equal 14?

Excuse the late response on this, only really looking at the power ups in Depth now…

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Morning @WillieTheron, my apologies for taking so long to respond to this. This value of 14 is definitely incorrect. The PowerUpType and SuperPowerUpType enums have deliberately been defined with non-overlapping values so that they can be combined in a single structure, such as the powerUpLocations on BotState. But when we map the GameState to a BotStateDTO (line 239 of GameState.cs), for some reason we add 10 to the value. I can only guess that we must have done on the incorrect assumption that the enums would overlap.

We will fix this in the next release.

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It did just add 10 so I mapped 14 and 15,

Thank you,

I also saw some really weird behavior of the Super Fertilizer itself.

But I would not change anything that isnt gamebreaking at this stage.

Id even say we could leave the values as 14 and 15 and just update the documentation.
**Sort of have a code freeze in place.

Just now like me someone did map to 14 and 15 and this change throws their training off.
*Id only need to change two values myself.

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I agree with @WillieTheron - I think a breaking change at this stage is too late in the game (no pun intended). It might be better to just update the docs to reflect the game engine’s actual behaviour.

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