🔒 Homework Help #2 - Noob coder tries to code and fucking dies part 2 | Python | Page 1

polar bobcat Apr 18, 2026, 4:42 PM

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help

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polar bobcat help

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@polar bobcat

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plush peak Apr 18, 2026, 4:43 PM

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polar bobcat Apr 18, 2026, 4:43 PM

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Background information:

The battle system is already coded and is a pretty simple "just do this/that according to the instructions, don't touch anything else"

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So right now I'm coding this archmage character which is directly based off the mage

so the class of Archmage [ignore spelling] is based off mage

What I need it to do is that if everyone on the team is dead except it, then it will deal 2 x [self.intelligence] damage to every character on the enemy team

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I presume what is wrong here is this code, but I cannot understand for the love of my life why.

For one, I don't know how to target all enemies in this, whether it's using an for i in x loop or something. [rn it's set to target a random enemy, but it's there to ensure the code even runs in the first place]

plush peak Apr 18, 2026, 4:46 PM

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please use embeds or pastebin

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!code

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polar bobcat Apr 18, 2026, 4:46 PM

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If you need me to send the other files, by all means ask me, since this is the most complex assignment thus far

I just wanna do the hard one first so I can learn, cuz the easier one is just a simpler "sorting" one

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Oh

plush peak Apr 18, 2026, 4:46 PM

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!paste

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polar bobcat Apr 18, 2026, 4:46 PM

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Fuck my life

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I forgot

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`class ArchMage(Mage):
def init(self):
super().init()
self.name = 'ArchMage'
self.cost = 600

def cast_special(self, my_team, enemy):
    if all_dead(my_team) == True:
        self.mana -= mana_cost
        target = rand_alive(enemy)
        dprint(f'Cast KABOOOOOOM! (Damage {self.int*2}) to every enemy!')
        enemy[target].got_hurt(self.int*2)`

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i'm ACTUALLY a chud larper [ignore me saying actual brainrot, i apologise, this is just how i am at times, i do not mean this]

plush peak Apr 18, 2026, 4:47 PM

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also, it's not clear what the functions and arguments you're using actually are just from that block

polar bobcat Apr 18, 2026, 4:48 PM

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does that i mean i have to send like the whole thing

plush peak Apr 18, 2026, 4:48 PM

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look at the embeded example, it's 3 backticks followed by py

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at the very least you should provide an attempt and the resulting error

polar bobcat Apr 18, 2026, 4:49 PM

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https://paste.pythondiscord.com/QBTA

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I suppose it's this

plush peak Apr 18, 2026, 4:50 PM

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class ArchMage(Mage):
    def __init__(self):
        super().__init__()
        self.name = 'ArchMage'
        self.cost = 600

    def cast_special(self, my_team, enemy):
        if all_dead(my_team) == True:
            self.mana -= mana_cost
            target = rand_alive(enemy)
            dprint(f'Cast KABOOOOOOM! (Damage {self.int*2}) to every enemy!')
            enemy[target].got_hurt(self.int*2)

you can actually just copy the embedded example and replace the hello world line until you get the hang of it

polar bobcat Apr 18, 2026, 4:50 PM

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right

plush peak Apr 18, 2026, 4:50 PM

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anywho, are you getting an error?

polar bobcat Apr 18, 2026, 4:51 PM

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Team A:
Members:   |   ArchMage
Hitpoints: |        800
Strength:  |           
Max. Mana: |         50
Current M: |         50

Team B:
Members:   |    Fighter|    Fighter|       Mage|    Fighter|    Fighter
Hitpoints: |       1200|       1200|        800|       1200|       1200
Strength:  |        100|        100|           |        100|        100
Max. Mana: |           |           |         50|           |           
Current M: |           |           |         50|           |           

Team A member 0 ArchMage acts
Strike enemy 4 with spell
Fighter hurt with remaining hp 800.

Team A:
Members:   |   ArchMage
Hitpoints: |        800
Strength:  |           
Max. Mana: |         50
Current M: |         30

Team B:
Members:   |    Fighter|    Fighter|       Mage|    Fighter|    Fighter
Hitpoints: |       1200|       1200|        800|       1200|        800
Strength:  |        100|        100|           |        100|        100
Max. Mana: |           |           |         50|           |           
Current M: |           |           |         50|           |           

Team B member 3 Fighter acts
Hurt enemy 0 by damage 100.
ArchMage hurt with remaining hp 700.```

example output. usually at this point the archmage will start using its cast_special, but it isn't

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The thing is that I consider two kinds of errors:

One is an actual error where the whole thing just doesn't run. Here it's running, it's just that it's not doing what I want exactly

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The cast_special() is supposed to be designed so that when there is only one person left on the team [that being the archmage themselves] they will cast their special attack

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The only thing I am really supposed to edit heavily is the second file, which is characters.py

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team.py is just some helper functions which I'm not to edit

battle.py is just minor edits that I can just follow myself

plush peak Apr 18, 2026, 4:55 PM

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so your hero is inhereting cast from the base mage class right?

polar bobcat Apr 18, 2026, 4:55 PM

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pretty much

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they will have the default action cast, and then a special cast for when there is one more

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I kind of realise it now

I think I didn't put a condition for that cast, so the code firsthand reads it and assumes to just keep casting normally

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And it ignores the special cast function i wrote

plush peak Apr 18, 2026, 4:57 PM

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yep, the cast that it's inheriting doesn't evaluate any criteria

polar bobcat Apr 18, 2026, 4:57 PM

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right, do i need to redefine cast then?

plush peak Apr 18, 2026, 4:58 PM

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Do all subclasses of mage have special casts?

polar bobcat Apr 18, 2026, 4:58 PM

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Yes

Normal mage is just that
Archmage is mage + special kaboom cast only activates if all but them are dead
Necromancer is mage + revive if a member is dead [i'll deal with this later]

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I imagine what I need to do is redefine cast so that it's conditional

plush peak Apr 18, 2026, 4:59 PM

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you can do it on in the parent or the child (forgive my vocab, I write very little OOP)

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but yes, that was the direction I was going in

polar bobcat Apr 18, 2026, 5:01 PM

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I'm gonna rewrite the child, would I just literally redefine the entire cast function, aka copypaste it and then add the condition, as such

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   if all_dead(my_team) == False:
        self.mana -= mana_cost
        target = rand_alive(enemy)
        dprint(f'Strike enemy {target} with spell')
        enemy[target].got_hurt(self.int)
  else:
        self.mana -= mana_cost
        target = rand_alive(enemy)
        dprint(f'Cast KABOOOOOOM! (Damage {self.int*2}) to every enemy!')
        enemy[target].got_hurt(self.int*2)```

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After this, I would need to figure out how I have it deal damage to every enemy

plush peak Apr 18, 2026, 5:05 PM

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iterating is the simplest, nothing else comes to mind for walking through a list

polar bobcat Apr 18, 2026, 5:06 PM

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right...

so just a for i in enemy_team whatever kinda shit

plush peak Apr 18, 2026, 5:06 PM

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yep

polar bobcat Apr 18, 2026, 5:06 PM

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Ugh

This is due in 24 hours and I'm gonna grind to get this shit done

I am so bad at coding it hurts I'm sorry

plush peak Apr 18, 2026, 5:06 PM

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seems fine to me

polar bobcat Apr 18, 2026, 5:10 PM

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AttributeError: type object 'super' has no attribute 'act'

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class ArchMage(Mage):
    def __init__(self):
        super().__init__()
        self.name = 'ArchMage'
        self.cost = 600

    def cast(self, my_team, enemy):
        if all_dead(my_team) == True:
            self.mana -= mana_cost
            for i in enemy:
                target = enemy[i]
                enemy[target].got_hurt(self.int*2)
            dprint(f'Cast KABOOOOOOM! (Damage {self.int*2}) to every enemy!')
        super.act(self, my_team, enemy)```

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oh im dumb that's what the py does

plush peak Apr 18, 2026, 5:12 PM

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so it's telling you that mage.act() isn't defined

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hmm or maybe not?

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I'm seeing that it is, as I said my OOP is weak

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perhaps, self.act?

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or just act()

polar bobcat Apr 18, 2026, 5:14 PM

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act is not defined

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hmmm

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you may be right about the self

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Sensational fucking coder

plush peak Apr 18, 2026, 5:17 PM

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I'm working on a project and don't want to derail you by giving bad advice where I'm not 100% myself. I'll keep an eye on the thread and help where I can though.

polar bobcat Apr 18, 2026, 5:17 PM

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ok thanks, no worries

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