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Neuromancer
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Castle control

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Dark elves and humans are fighting over control of a city. In the city, there are several castles which can be controlled by each one of the belligerents. Each castle has its own recruit list, leader (these two variables change according to the ownership of the castle) and income. For example, one castle is controlled by elves. Elvish captain spawns at the keep, and each turn recruits some fighters and archers. Later the captain is killed. Human sergeant spawns at the keep and starts recruiting spearmen and archers.
Is there some way to achieve this besides of assigning different side to each of the castles?
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Re: Castle control

Post by Crendgrim »

You could disallow the leaders on the castles to recruit, and manually select a random unit which spawns on the castle hexes. Of course, this approach is quite complicated to implement, but it may work.
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Re: Castle control

Post by Xudo »

You can try to handle "attack end" event.
Check hp of leader, if it < 0, teleport him to the next castle, change unit type, heal and recruitment pattern.
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Re: Castle control

Post by Bonteaux »

Here's an idea:

1.) Give the leader units that spawn on the castles defined ids according to which castle they occupy, such as leader_castle_1, leader_castle_2 and so on
2.) Then make a "die" event (inside $unit is the one doing the dying, $second_unit is the killer):
- filter for id= leader_castle_1, leader_castle_2, ....
- store the $unit in a variable, then [kill] it , removing it from the game (and recall lists) so you can then
- spawn a leader [unit] from $second_unit.side and give it the $unit.id (it shouldn't give any id collusions, since the other unit with this id is already gone)

something like this (untested):

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[event]
    name=die
    first_time_only=no
    [filter]
        id=leader_castle_1,leader_castle_2
    [/filter]
    [store_unit]
        [filter]
            id=$unit.id
        [/filter]
        variable=prev_leader
    [/store_unit]
    [kill] # so it doesn't appear on the recall list
        [filter]
            id=$prev_leader.id
        [/filter]
    [/kill]
    [switch] # with a switch, you can easily extend this to more sides. Maybe the dwarves want the city as well later on :)
        # assumes side=1 => dark elves, side=2 => humans
        variable=prev_leader.side
        [case]
            value=2
            [unit]
                id=$prev_leader.id
                x,y=$prev_leader.x,$prev_leader.y
                type=Elvish Captain
                canrecruit=yes
                side=$second_unit.side
            [/unit]
        [/case]
        [case]
            value=1
            [unit]
                id=$prev_leader.id
                x,y=$prev_leader.x,$prev_leader.y
                type=Sergeant
                canrecruit=yes
                side=$second_unit.side
            [/unit]
        [/case]
    [/switch]
[/event]
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Re: Castle control

Post by Neuromancer »

It works, but right after creating new leader, the game ends: "You have been defeated", the newly created leader the only unit on the map. I killed the previous leader with both human and AI-controlled sides and nothing changes.
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Re: Castle control

Post by Bonteaux »

Hm, I think the problem is that [kill] doesn't need/understand [filter], so if you used the code as it was posted, the [kill] probably kills all everybody (ignoring the [filter]) and then the new leader is created, is of course the only unit that remains after the event, and thus wins the game. (I did write it was untested code though :) )

So, just get rid of the [filter] tags surrounding the id=$prev_leader.id in the [kill] tag, or I think you can get rid of the [kill] tag entirely and replace it with a kill=yes in the [store_unit].

OTOH, since this is the event where $prev_leader is dying, maybe you don't even need to kill it, since the whole point is just to keep it of the recall lists, where dead units usually don't end up anyway...
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Re: Castle control

Post by artisticdude »

The [kill] tagset takes a SUF, but you cannot use the [filter] tagset.

Also remember that in the [store_unit] block you can make use of the kill= key (which takes a boolean value) to automatically kill the stored unit without having to add the [kill] tagset in order to kill the unit that was previously stored. So instead of this:

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[store_unit]
        [filter]
            id=$unit.id
        [/filter]
        variable=prev_leader
    [/store_unit]
    [kill] # so it doesn't appear on the recall list
        [filter]
            id=$prev_leader.id
        [/filter]
    [/kill]
you would write this:

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[store_unit]
        [filter]
            id=$unit.id
        [/filter]
        variable=prev_leader
#just add this key to kill the stored unit
        kill=yes
    [/store_unit]
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Re: Castle control

Post by Neuromancer »

Thank you guys.
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