Wonderful Reality

[Martin Gühmann]

Originally posted by Immortal Wombat
Would triggering a STOP on the CreateImprovement event also stop the event which is supposed to create the wonder?

Yes without further modifications. But you could use a global variable if it is set to 0 then the tile improvement can't be build, if it is set to 1 it can be build. So in the event that should build the wonder improvement it will be set to 1 and afterwards to 0 again. But actual I think giving and removing the enabling advance is the way to, because the AI will try only to build the wonder improvments instead of the real ones, so in the end it wouldn't build anything.

-Martin

[Immortal Wombat]

If I gave it an insanely high PW cost, would the AI save up for it, or build cheaper ones?

[Martin Gühmann]

Originally posted by Immortal Wombat
If I gave it an insanely high PW cost, would the AI save up for it, or build cheaper ones?

You could try it but I think the AI will save up for the best tile improvements that are available. I never saw an AI building roads when it was able to build railroads, the same is true for all the other tileimprovements.

-Martin

[Immortal Wombat]

Yeah, good point. It'll have to be the advances then

[Locutus]

Uhm, why don't you just give all the TileImps an advance as prerequisite that's impossible to research (i.e. has itself as prerequisite or is disabled with the mod_* SLIC function)?

[Immortal Wombat]

Extra text file. Not a major problem, but annoying.

Unless I use Subneural Ads as that advance. Which is basically what I was going to do anyway.

[Locutus]

So? What's 20k on a 6MB download?

[Immortal Wombat]

6Mb??

[Pedrunn]

Originally posted by Locutus
Uhm, why don't you just give all the TileImps an advance as prerequisite that's impossible to research (i.e. has itself as prerequisite or is disabled with the mod_* SLIC function)?

what are the variables for the mod_CanPlayerHaveAdvance function?
(int_t, ) ???

[Immortal Wombat]

int_t [player], int_t [advanceDB index]

[Martin Gühmann]

Originally posted by Pedrunn
what are the variables for the mod_CanPlayerHaveAdvance function?
(int_t, ) ???

Just take a look into the WW_mod.slc and you will find this:

// Players can not research any new technologies
int_f mod_CanPlayerHaveAdvance (int_t thePlayer, int_t theAdvance)
{
	if (theAdvance == AdvanceDB(ADVANCE_ADV_NAVAL_TACTICS) ||
		theAdvance == AdvanceDB(ADVANCE_VERTICAL_FLIGHT_AIRCRAFT) ||
		theAdvance == AdvanceDB(ADVANCE_SUPERSONIC_FLIGHT) ||
		theAdvance == AdvanceDB(ADVANCE_MASS_TRANSIT) ||
		theAdvance == AdvanceDB(ADVANCE_COMPUTER) ||
		theAdvance == AdvanceDB(ADVANCE_GLOBAL_ECONOMICS) ||
		theAdvance == AdvanceDB(ADVANCE_CORPORATE_REPUBLIC)) {
		return 0;
	} else {
		return 1;
	}
}

So the first argument is the player index in the game in integer form.

And the second argument is the advance represented by an integer the DataBase index of the advance.

-Martin

[Pedrunn]

Thanks

[Immortal Wombat]

Did I mention, the wonder code should work - provided when you test it, you don't complete two wonders on consecutive turns. Otherwise the TI isn't built properly, and problems occur.

[Pedrunn]

This is making the game crash after lauching it. Any suggestion on how to make this code work.

int_t ExpansionPlayer;	

int_f mod_CanPlayerHaveAdvance(int_t thePlayer, int_t theAdvance) {
int_t tmpAdvance;
int_t tmpPlayer;
	tmpAdvance = theAdvance;
	tmpPlayer = thePlayer;
	if(tmpPlayer == ExpansionPlayer) {	
		if (tmpAdvance == AdvanceDB(ADVANCE_SUBNEURAL_ADS)) { 
			return 1;
		}
		else{
			return 0;
		}
	}
	else{
		return 0;
	}
}

HandleEvent(EndTurn) 'NobodyCanCreateCities' pre {
	ExpansionPlayer = 0;
}

And this is part of the where ExpansionPlayer is defined.

	ExpansionPlayer = ownerNum;
	GrantAdvance(ownerNum, AdvanceDB(ADVANCE_SUBNEURAL_ADS));

Right before the expansion starts. It is in the beginning of the expandCity function of my code for those who have see the code.

PS: Does the RemoveAdvance function work. I have tried to used but not with sucess.

[Immortal Wombat]

Ah. You appear to have prevented any player from having any advance. Put the two if() statements the other way around, replace the second 0 with a 1, and you got it.

But you don't need it really. SubNeural ads can never be researched anyway, and you just need the RemoveAdvance function in a different handler at the end of that turn to make it work.
Set up a player array as a switch, eg:

int_t    IsPlayerExpanding[];

// In the expandcity function
if(sucess == 1){
     IsPlayerExpanding[owner] = 1;
}

// and then later...

HandleEvent(endturn) 'remove_ads' pre{
     int_t  i;
    for(i=0; i < preference("NumPlayers"); i = i + 1){    // or whatever
            if(IsPlayerExpanding[i] == 1){
                RemoveAdvance(i, AdvanceDB(ADVANCE_SUBNEURAL_ADS));
                IsPlayerExpanding[i] = 0;
            }
       }
}

or something