Let the gold rain down!

[malthaussen]

I want to give Side 2 a one-time infusion of 100 gold on Turn 20. Not finding any simple syntax to accomplish this, and everything I search just takes me farther down a rabbit hole.

Any ideas?

-- Mal

[white_haired_uncle]

I assume you're familiar with the various turn events, like new_turn or side_2_turn:

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                   [gold]
                        side=2
                        amount=100
                    [/gold]
 

[malthaussen]

@uncle: actually not a safe assumption, as I have only been fooling with this game for about three days. But maybe I worked it out, the scenario doesn't warn me anything is wrong:

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	[event]
		name=side_2_turn_20
			[gold]
				side=2
				amount=100
			[/gold]
	[/event]

-- Mal

[white_haired_uncle]

https://wiki.wesnoth.org/EventWML

[malthaussen]

Yeah, I saw that. It doesn't give an example of the code, though.

-- Mal

[white_haired_uncle]

I just search the mainline campaigns, for example:

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grep -r name=side /export/share/build/spartan/wesnoth-git/data/campaigns/

[lhybrideur]

@uncle: actually not a safe assumption, as I have only been fooling with this game for about three days. But maybe I worked it out, the scenario doesn't warn me anything is wrong:

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	[event]
		name=side_2_turn_20
			[gold]
				side=2
				amount=100
			[/gold]
	[/event]

-- Mal

The name= is wrong

https://wiki.wesnoth.org/EventWML#side_X_turn_Y

[Ravana]

Looks correct name.

[Spannerbag]

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	[event]
		name=side_2_turn_20
			[gold]
				side=2
				amount=100
			[/gold]
	[/event]

-- Mal

Try replacing name=side_2_turn_20 with name=side 2 turn 20 (i.e. lose the underscores).
https://wiki.wesnoth.org/EventWML#side_X_turn_Y

[off_topic]
Note that [gold] does what it says on the tin; so if gold before is -101 and you have amount=100, gold after is -1.

Fwiw, with the help of many others cleverer than me (they did all the hard work) I created a lua snippet that creates a custom tag [gold_min].
This works like [gold] but also accepts a minimum value for the side's gold after the gold is added, regardless of a side's current gold.
You can do this in other more conventional ways of course but I use this logic a lot so created a custom tag.
So in the example above if you add 100 gold using [gold_min] to a side with -101 gold, then the side will have 100 gold afterwards (unless you specify an alternative minimum; the minimum defaults to the amount being added).
[/off_topic]

Anyway, good luck.

Cheers!
-- Spannerbag

[Ravana]

Spaces in event names can be interchanged with underscores (for example, name=new turn and name=new_turn are equivalent).

[Spannerbag]

Spaces in event names can be interchanged with underscores (for example, name=new turn and name=new_turn are equivalent).

So that's true everywhere?
Oops...
Ah well, I've learned something!

Cheers!
-- Spannerbag

[malthaussen]

@Ravana: That explains why I see both methods in the .cfgs I've been reviewing.

-- Mal

[malthaussen]

@ lhybrideur: I've tested it, and it is working. Have to agree with Ravana here.

-- Mal

[lhybrideur]

Same as Spannerbag, I learned something today.

BTW, if you want to counter the -101+100 problem, you can do

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		[modify_side]
			side=2 
			gold=100
		[/modify_side]