Ruins

[Zaphod Beeblebrox]

Re: Ruins

Originally posted by The Big Mc
Ruins leading to death
Well any more suggestions.

starting a dark-fantasy mod? you shouldn't have opened that door withj the obscure runes on it? we might need an additionial type of alienunderwaterruins to be placed in deep ocean

to be serious:
that all sounds great, other (though very tricky) options might be, that you actually might find really importat ruins (pompeji, troja, ...), a ti might be placed there, which will bring you a big amount of trade (all those tourists), all nations will hate you, if you destroy that ...

[The Big Mc]

Great a Q&A session just what the shrink ordered.

Starting a dark-fantasy mod? you shouldn't have opened that door with the obscure runes on it? We might need an additional type of alien under water ruins to be placed in Deep Ocean

Well if there is dammed it is possible to make underwater ruins and yes there can even be a third or fourth ruin type. Triggering the same code of the land ones in fact all that is need is to add the lines that the ruin can be made underwater.

to be serious:
that all sounds great, other (though very tricky) options might be, that you actually might find really importat ruins (pompeji, troja, ...), a ti might be placed there, which will bring you a big amount of trade (all those tourists), all nations will hate you, if you destroy that ...

well that is wonders ruins and that will be done in time ( you know wonders form a bygone age like Stonehenge the sphinx things that were made before the birth of the Egyptian civ "allegedly").

[The Big Mc]

Well back to the main business end of this thread the ruins now work and are “virtually” undetectable (only detectible because I have not messed around with the glstrings.slc file).

They have some events tied up to them and I am getting reedy to launch the beta test ones I have a few more events put on to it as I only have gold and death tested.

[The Big Mc]

Any way does any one now how to pass variables into a string to appear in am massage box

[Immortal Wombat]

make them global, then put "{variablename}" in the string file. The {}s are the important thing.

[The Big Mc]

Right it has to be global now that’s what I am doing wrong.

great one now I can say

You have x bits of gold.

I also had a good idea for a new bad ruin

Cursed items

Put simply you pick up a small amount of gold eg 2 gold. However at the same time your gold gets to you nearest city a unknown virus starts up there (using the bio infect order).

[The Big Mc]

Well I am a bit upset about this thread is started of with the comment any ideas and nobody has had one is everybody wanting the beta to come out before making there own ruin plug-in.

[SMIFFGIG]

Hey this is great
any chance of being able to use the un-used ctp2 ruins?

Also i love the idea of ruins

revealing Sarounding area

and

giving contact with another Civ

[Pedrunn]

I am interested in this indeed.

[The Big Mc]

giving contact with another Civ

good idea

[The Big Mc]

Well here is the full list of ruin events the x and y after the event stand for

X code generated ( not all strings are generated if code is)

Y strings generated


Unit dead x
Gold x
Attack y
Map x
Heal x
Goods x
Nothing y
Injury x
Dirty gold y
Pop or slave y
Ancient exhibit y
Advance y
Unit y

[The Big Mc]

Here are the strings for them if you have any recommendation fell free to give them.

mcr_unitdead "sir the group we sent in to cheek the ruins has not reported back it is the only logical conclusion we have left is that the group meet with a un-know fate."

mcr_gold "sir are group come back with gold plunder worth {gold}"

mcr_attack "sir the group have come into difficulty as they have disturbed robbers who were looting the ruins."

mcr_map "sir the group have come back carrying old Documents which reveal in detail the local area"

mcr_heal "sir the group reports that they meet with a group of friendly locals they gave the group supplies in exchange for directions to your nearest city"


mcr_goods "sir the group reports that they ruins were full of {thegood.namr}"


mcr_nothing "sir the group reports that the ruins have long since been plundered"

mcr_hurt "sir the group we sent into the ruins have been involved in an accident when unstable material fell on them damaging the overhaul combat efficiency of the unit in combat"

mcr_exsibit "sir searching the ancient ruins we find nothing except some decorative pieces these pieces could be made in to a exhibit to show are technological marvel."

mcr_dirtygold "sir searching the ancient ruins we find a small amount of gold in the form of. however also found in the ruins was a documant saying that the people who plunder the runs will suffer."

mcr_advace "sir searching the ancient ruins we notice this ruins dependency of {the advance} using information we now know {the advance}."

mcr_unit "sir searching the ancient ruins we find a small defensive group the group claims they salvaged the most up to date units from a small raiding party which came they pledge allegiance to you in exchange for the safe evacuation of there families to your nearest city."

mcr_pop "sir searching the ancient ruins we find a small village the people in this village are keen to join your empire but what do you want to do with them"

[The Big Mc]

The contact with other civs will have to go I can’t get the string right for it. However it will be replaced with the meeting with a traveller who gives you the civs map.

I also started work on giving a settler. Note that you won’t get a city because they are often badly placed.

Note I will add the unused ctp ruins to the start up routine for the beta.

[The Big Mc]

it s beta time

Well I know that the advance does not work and the exhibition but tell me what you thick of them.

to install just pile it all into your gamedata folder put the #include bit in the scenario file and then put the strings into an existing scen_str file then put the two ruins tile imps before the normal ruins entry.

well that’s how to install it let me know what you think.

[Pedrunn]

I will give a look in this