How can I create a city with a granary ?

[TP]

Locutus,

GREAT idea to use the TerrainType function as a workaround to check whether a city is actually a space city.

I haven't tried it (too less time these days), but I know that as soon as a city is built (which you can trigger via city.built) the city's location is saved in city.location.

So the trigger for space cities would most likely look like:

trigger 'Slamp_TP_SupportSpaceCities' when (city.built && TerrainType(city.location) == 20) {
AddPops(city.1,2);
CreateUnit(player, UnitType("UNIT_MACHINE_GUNNER"), city.1.location, 0);
CreateUnit(player, UnitType("UNIT_MACHINE_GUNNER"), city.1.location, 0);
}

Hope this works (I am especially not sure whether space is linked to the number 20, but it is the 20th entry in terrain.txt, so I suppose it is correct.

Can someone test please ?


TP

[TP]

Sorry guys,


3 issues after my testing (I just had to do it, at least until now past midnight:

1. Not so bad:
The terrain number lies between 10 and 17 based on my testing, you have to find the final right number. Please use the following code:
trigger 'Slamp_TP_SupportSpaceCities' when (city.built) {
if (TerrainType(city.location) == XX) {
AddPops(city.1,2);
CreateUnit(player, UnitType("UNIT_MACHINE_GUNNER"), city.location, 0);
CreateUnit(player, UnitType("UNIT_MACHINE_GUNNER"), city.location, 0);
}
}

2. Slightly bad:
After building the "star ladder", the first space city you automatically get with this wonder, will NOT be affected by the SLIC code, i.e. it will stay a city with 1 pop and no gunmen.

3. Severly bad:
The gunmen which get created, are not created in space but on Earth just down the space tile where the new space city is. I do not see a way to find a solution for that currently.


TP

[WesW]

Keep plugging away, TP!
Btw, see the Awesome Aips thread for TheBirdMan's comments about Ectopia.

[Locutus]

Glad I could help (for what it's worth anyway, if you can't even get your units actually in the city).
I'll try and do some testing tonight and see if I can get this thing to work properly. (I doubt it, because I've only been experimenting with SLIC for a few days, but maybe I'm lucky )

I also tried to get SLIC to create buildings in a city, but without results so far (not that I expected them). That really s*cks, I hadn't anticipated that would ever be a problem. Has anyone ever complained about this with Activision? Maybe they'll put it in a future patch.

Locutus

[Locutus]

Hi all,
I've encountered some problems which prefented me from testing, but I had a few idea's that I thought I'd let you all know:

Firstly, I don't think it's necessary to know the number for the space-terrain (if someone messes with the terrain.txt file, this number may even change). It should be possible to replace the XX in the 'Slamp_TP_SupportSpaceCities'-trigger with TerrainType("TERRAIN_SPACE"). Correct me if I'm wrong, though.

Secondly, if you have your Machine Gunners underneath your city instead of into them, can't you use the SetOrder and AddOrder functions (with ORDER_LAUNCH from order.txt) to launch them into space? Or can this only be ordered to units who can normally be launched into space?

Well, that's it for now

Locutus