MOVEUNIT Event

[battosai]

Hey folks,

Can anyone decifer this type of event? I want to make use of it but never saw any example for it. The one below doesn't work (although no error msg pops up).

@IF
TURN
turn=-1
@THEN
MOVEUNIT
unit=ANYUNIT
owner=Babylonier
maprect
112,44,118,44,118,50,112,50
moveto
120,50
numbertomove=ALL
@ENDIF

The four coordinates in line 6 are the edges of some kind of map rectange. Is there a sequence of edges to be followed? I went from lower left to lower right.

[Harry Tuttle]

In the cheat menu in Civ2, under the event editor there is a help menu for the event. Follow that order.

[Harry Tuttle]

@IF
TURN
turn=-1
@THEN
MOVEUNIT
unit=ANYUNIT
owner=Tribal Barbarians
maprect
14,18,36,18,36,30,14,30
moveto
10,32
numbertomove=ALL
@ENDIF

The problem might be with the moveto coordinate. Try changing it to another point farther out of the rectangle.

[Cyrion]

What is your problem? Does the event file crash or does simply the units not obey the command?

In the later case, my experience taught me that the moveunits works fine only with units created by events on the same turn (and just before, or in the same event) than the moveunits event! And it stops working as soon as a enemy (or maybe even simply foreign?) unit is encountered.

Hope this helps...

[battosai]

Your're right Cyrion. The hint from Harry did not fix my problem, the test units weren't moved. I don't know about the conditions with event spawned units but this possibilty would not serve my intentions anyways.

I planned to withdraw troops of Civ A from an occupied territory, so that event created units from Civ B could enter the empty cities (revolt).

[Cyrion]

I guessed so...

It would be good to be able to do something like that, but sadly it's not working well...

[techumseh]

Captain Nemo wrote a tip on using the 'MoveUnit' event. It's available on the Cradle of Civ site, here: http://coc.apolyton.net/guides/index.shtml

I use a double event to keep units moving. You want to have triggers that repeat automatically and very frequently, so as to 'remind' the units to keep moving. Lots of things can cancel the moveunit order, such as running into a unit from another civ, so repeating the order many times in each turn is vital.

The first event below triggers the command at the start of each turn, just to get things rolling. The second repeats the command, anytime a unit is killed, anywhere and regardless of who it belongs to, so it's repeated constantly.


@IF
TURN
turn=Every
@THEN
MOVEUNIT
unit=AnyUnit
owner=Austrians
maprect
10,18,46,18,46,54,10,54
moveto
38,18
numbertomove=all
@ENDIF

@IF
UNITKILLED
Unit=AnyUnit
Attacker=Anybody
Defender=Anybody
@THEN
MOVEUNIT
unit=AnyUnit
owner=Austrians
maprect
10,18,46,18,46,54,10,54
moveto
38,18
numbertomove=all
@ENDIF

Try to put your destination square outside the 'box' of coordinates, and right next to it. That ensures there is no confusion in the orders to the unit and that it doesn't end a turn somewhere where it isn't getting any orders.


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