Quick event question.

[Arthedain]

In, for example, a unit killed event, what do I write as the owner if I want it to be a barbarian units. I want my unit to get killed by a barbaran unit, and that will trigger a new unit of mine to be born. I have named the barbarians outlaw. IIRC if the barbarians are the attacker I shouldput "trigger attacker" or something. Anyone knows?

[Mercator]

I think something like this should work:

@IF
UnitKilled
unit=AnyUnit
attacker=Outlaw
defender=AnyBody
@THEN
CreateUnit
owner=TriggerDefender
unit=New Unit of Mine
veteran=no
homecity=none
locations
0,0
1,1
endlocations
@ENDIF

Quote from Macro.txt: (shouldn't you have read this first? )

[q=macro.txt]TRIGGERATTACKER specifies the civilization that is the aggressor in a conflict trigger
(UNITKILLED or CITYTAKEN)
TRIGGERDEFENDER specifies the civilization that is the defender in a conflict trigger
(UNITKILLED or CITYTAKEN)
TRIGGERRECEIVER specifies the civilization that has the technology named in a
RECEIVEDTECHNOLOGY trigger[/q]

Though I believe they don't quite work properly? Or am I mixing things up? I can't remember.

[Arthedain]

Originally posted by Mercator
Quote from Macro.txt: (shouldn't you have read this first? )

Quote from Krusty the Clown "But I'm a lazy lazy man.."

Thanks for the info Merc. However, in my case I think it should be more like this:

@IF
UnitKilled
unit=barbarian trigger
attacker=Me
defender=Outlaw
@THEN
CreateUnit
owner=Me
unit=New Unit of Mine
veteran=no
homecity=none
locations
0,0
1,1
endlocations
@ENDIF

So should I put "Outlaw" or TriggerDefender" as defender?

I could put anybody as defender, but I want the defender to be the barbarians ONLY, as I use the same unit, with the evil force as a defender for a totally different event. I could make this a whole lot easy for me, since I have more unit slots, but if there's a specific thing to write for the barbarians, I want to learn.

[Mercator]

Um, as defender you can only use Outlaw. TriggerDefender is sometihng you'd put in the action, not in the trigger. Read the macro.txt. (not gonna quote it now )

[Arthedain]

Somehow it's not working with outlaw (or outlaws) there, so i guess I have to use my extra unit slots. No problem with that though.

[Catfish]

@Arthedain:

If you want to use a custom name for the Barbarians, you'll need to edit their entry in labels.txt. For MGE that'd be the last of these lines:

@LABELS
888
B.C.
A.D.
Civilization II Multiplayer Gold
Building Sprites
Map
Status
World
City
Building World
Moving Units
Viewing Pieces
Loc
Moves
Veteran
NONE
Barbarians

Originally posted by Arthedain
I have named the barbarians outlaw.

Or have you done that already?

Originally posted by Mercator
Though I believe they don't quite work properly? Or am I mixing things up? I can't remember.

The AnyBody bug will kick in for older versions of Civ2. It's fixed in ToT.

[Arthedain]

Yeah Catfish, I've already renamed them to Outlaws.

[Mercator]

Is that the only place you renamed them? What if you change it back to the original and use Barbarians in the rules? Does it still not work? Because then it would clearly be something else that's the problem.

[Catfish]

I'll have another bash at it then.

Originally posted by Arthedain
I want my unit to get killed by a barbaran unit, and that will trigger a new unit of mine to be born.

Originally posted by Arthedain
@IF
UnitKilled
unit=barbarian trigger
attacker=Me
defender=Outlaw
@THEN

OK, so who is meant to get killed, your unit or the barbarian? It sounds like you want the event triggered when your unit is killed by a specific type of barbarian unit. There is no provision in the events language to define the unit type of the attacker (the winner of the fight). In my WotR scenario, I get around this type of thing by limiting access to trigger units by way of map transport relationships (ToT only) and also via the 'attack air units in flight' flag, but that's probably not much use to you, is it?

[Arthedain]

Originally posted by Catfish
OK, so who is meant to get killed, your unit or the barbarian? It sounds like you want the event triggered when your unit is killed by a specific type of barbarian unit. There is no provision in the events language to define the unit type of the attacker (the winner of the fight). In my WotR scenario, I get around this type of thing by limiting access to trigger units by way of map transport relationships (ToT only) and also via the 'attack air units in flight' flag, but that's probably not much use to you, is it?

The barbarian unit is meant to be killed by my hero unit. It's the only unit that kan kill it. But I can't set the owner to anybody, since another hero unit is supposed to kill the same unit owned by the evil forces later on in the scenario. So this unit has to be owned by the barbarians (outlaws).

@ Mercator: I haven't had the time to actually change back the names yet. But I guess that's not the problem.

[Arthedain]

Actually, I just put Outlaws as the defender again and it all worked out great. Thanks for the help guys.

[Arthedain]

I know this question has been brought up before (couldn't find it bys earching though) but what do I do when the cheat menu is always activated when I load up a turn?

[Arthedain]

Please, don't make me start a new thread for anyone to see my new question.

[Mercator]

It happens to all games you're loading/starting, right? Not just one?

Deleting the Civ2.dat file fixes that, I believe.

[Arthedain]

Right, and now when you told me, I remembered. Thanks mate, you're a true civ2 hero.