Is this possible in ToT?

[Palaiologos2]

Can you script an event that the first time any of the (G, S,or F) civs captures any city of civ R there is a % of gaining a tech of civ R, but from a particular group?

In particular i'd like to have the Franks having a chance of getting techs from the colapsing western empire but only from the "Civilized I" tech group allowing them to eventually settle down.
Moreover if they capture specific "arms factory cities" they will have a chance to discover mail, scale, lamelar armours etc.

As my Pc is fried at the momment i can't test anything but if it is possible it will save me a lot of trouble.

P.S1 When will the scenario league site be operational again?
P.S2 When will the movement to Civfanatics be completed?

[AGRICOLA]

This is going to be a bit messy, but I think that it may be possible with events structured as follows:

@IF
CITYTAKEN
city=any of the target cities
.
.
@AND
RANDOMTURN
denominator= (1=100%, 2=50%, 3=33% etc probability of getting tech)
.
.
.
@THEN
GIVETECHNOLOGY
technology=any of the technologies you want given to the Franks.
.
.
@ENDIF



This is pretty simplistic - any tech can be received from any city - but may result in the Franks not getting some techs.

If you want to make sure that the Franks receive all the "Civilized I" techs you will need to arrange it so that taking cities A or B will produce only tech X, taking cities C or D will produce only tech Y etc..

Trying to keep track of which techs have been received and which ones have not is not a place I would want to go.


BTW, could you please post the number of target cities, the number of "Civilized I" techs and the number of special techs. Some cities may need 2 events, one for a "Civilized I" tech and one for a special tech.

I assume that this is not a multiple event file scen.

[Palaiologos2]

So it has to be done for each city specifically?
I can't have f.e;

@IF
CITYTAKEN
city=ANYCITY
OWNER=Romans


Moreover the formula you mentioned makes it so that the tech is given after a random number of turns, not that there is a random chance of getting a tech.Yes?

[AGRICOLA]

So it has to be done for each city specifically?
I can't have f.e;

@IF
CITYTAKEN
city=ANYCITY
OWNER=Romans

If you do it without being specific with both city/cities and techs, you may miss one or more techs.

Moreover the formula you mentioned makes it so that the tech is given after a random number of turns, not that there is a random chance of getting a tech.Yes?

No, I think you are thinking of DELAY.

However this approach will not work, I just tested it. I think you may have to use flags.

At start of each turn:

@IF
RANDOMTURN
.
@THEN
FLAG
flagx=on
.
@ENDIF


At the end of the turn, set flagx=off



Change what I wrote in my previous post to:

@IF
CITYTAKEN
city=any of the target cities
.
.
@AND
CHECKFLAG
flagx=on
.
.
@THEN
GIVETECHNOLOGY
technology=any of the technologies you want given to the Franks.
.
.
@ENDIF


P.S. If you need a crash course in events, check out Market Garden and El Aurens. Techumseh and Boco are experts.

[Palaiologos2]

Hmmm...
In any case thanks. I don't mind if the Franks loose a couple of techs-their absorption of the west is only meant to give them a boost.
Maybe using flags is the key-untill i understand how it works. Am too MGEish in my thinking i'm afraid.

On a final note what parameters can i set to the GIVETECHNOLOGY order? Can i specify groups? Or can i use it to only give techs allowed to be event given? Can i use technology=ANY?
I mean after all in vanilla every time you conquer a city you get a tech, right?