Show trade AP item, goal completion message + release/collect, and hint commands in-game

[jacobmix]

What feature would you like to see?

Edit: This was originally just for release & collect, and possible hint commands being added but have evolved to expand item info for players in general.

• Trades could just show you the item name in trade text so you won't need to waste location hints one them.
  Being an option would be cool for people who don't wan know what they're spending their money on before it's too late.
  If this get's added it might be good to also change the text for number of Power Cells for 'progression-gates' as well.
  Could add "Scouting" too. So after first NPC interaction that has a trade you get hints for the trade items automatically.
  At the moment you need to add this to your player yaml to start with hints for all trades:

  start_location_hints:
    # Start with these locations and their item prefilled into the ``!hint`` command.
    ['SV: Bring 90 Orbs To The Mayor', 'SV: Bring 90 Orbs to Your Uncle', 'SV: Bring 120 Orbs To The Oracle (1)', 'SV: Bring 120 Orbs To The Oracle (2)', 'RV: Bring 90 Orbs To The Gambler', 'RV: Bring 90 Orbs To The Geologist', 'RV: Bring 90 Orbs To The Warrior', 'RV: Bring 120 Orbs To The Oracle (1)', 'RV: Bring 120 Orbs To The Oracle (2)', 'VC: Bring 90 Orbs To The Miners (1)', 'VC: Bring 90 Orbs To The Miners (2)', 'VC: Bring 90 Orbs To The Miners (3)', 'VC: Bring 90 Orbs To The Miners (4)', 'VC: Bring 120 Orbs To The Oracle (1)', 'VC: Bring 120 Orbs To The Oracle (2)']

• Also more groups to make it easy to location hint through all trades, and get one for example or set trades easier with advanced yaml options.

• A button or pop-up in-game for !release and !collect after beating your goal would for manual goal release games.
  Probably just another option inside Archipelago Options in the pause menu.

• A way to use an empty “hint” command to be useable in-game in some way, and tell you hint points/cost.
  To: “Lists all hints relevant to your world, the number of points you have for hints, and how much a hint costs.”

• A way to use hints for at the most important checks in-game like:
  "Power Cell" "Uppercut", "Fisherman's Boat", "Location_RV: Bring 90 Orbs To The Gambler", ect.
  Probably just a sub menu in the Archipelago Options menu with more sub menus for each type.
  Making it show on screen might be hard but sending the hint to other players is enough in most cases.

Here's the page for Archipelago commands: https://archipelago.gg/tutorial/Archipelago/commands/en
No task for decoupling Power Cell "known" from game state as it's a real challenge, and volatile for current goal of playability.

Discord: 1.

[jacobmix]

With version v0.0.8 #19 has now been added, and so has #22
Edit: Might also be related to #10 now.
Be great to get text showing you've completed your goal. Tho if you have manual release/collect on you still have to use the client.
Great work so far, and feels pretty complete. Can't wait to see it officially on the archipelago.gg site, and included in the launcher 👍

[massimilianodelliubaldini]

This is an old one but let me talk about how one would best implement this.

OpenGOAL is no stranger to additional user input fields, even freeform text input is already available. One could use this to, oh I don't know...

• Enter the Archipelago server URL and port number.
• Enter a slot name and password.
• Enter commands like !hint, !send, !release, and more.

OpenGOAL is also built on C++, and there is at least one C++ Archipelago library. Connecting the dots, you would think the entire Archipelago client could be built right into the game itself! How cool would that be?

Problem is, I already tried using Black Silver's apclientpp library back in April to implement exactly that. However, I could never get it and its dependencies to play nice with OpenGOAL's suite of existing libraries and its own dependencies. Couple that with my inexperience working in C++'s ecosystem, and I was fighting every single tool to make it work - cmake, clang, OpenSSL, Visual Studio, Windows, it never seemed to end.

I spent the entire month of April trying to make it work before giving up and using the Python reference client instead.

Adding the things in the OP as part of the game's controller-interactable menu system would be wildly inefficient, not user-friendly, and not particularly accessible, at least compared to what could be accomplished with OpenGOAL's existing debug menu capabilities. Of course, even if you could implement an in-game client, you'd then have to port all of the location-checking and item-receiving logic, the data package logic to handle orb trades, and whatever else was already built into the Python client.

I'm not closing this issue just because I can't hack it, but I will probably put some kind of tag on it to say "a more experienced developer (or one already familiar with OpenGOAL) would have to tackle this in the future."