Spawning units possible?

[Grandpa Troll]

..on a related issue to scenario I am working on...

I was wondering if it would be possible..say..to spawn a free tank in each city...

Would I need a trigger of some sort...SLIC induced perhaps??

Let me know..thought it would be neat...say your in the middle of a heated battle and got say 50 tanks because you had 50 cities!!

or... all your ai civs came up with 40 + tanks then you have that to contend with!!

Me be thinking outloud and outta da box!!

Peace

Grandpa "Posting-whilst-EYE-B-Thinking" Troll

[Locutus]

Spawning units is one of the easiest things to do in SLIC -- one example is the Settlers code I linked to a few days ago. What should trigger the spawn?

[Grandpa Troll]

Originally posted by Locutus
Spawning units is one of the easiest things to do in SLIC -- one example is the Settlers code I linked to a few days ago. What should trigger the spawn?

Great!

I was hoping that say once a civilization discovered say Mass Production every city built gets a free marine.

Then again on Tanks same deal.

I see where you had it for the beginning, would it be hard to simply spawn a unit in each city once the tech is discovered?

In regards to the other post on spawing additional settlers...say each city you have built when you hit year 50 BC every city spawns a settler...
Then maybe again in turn 1000 AD


Question:

I dont remember, does the computer track "turns"...like I allways start Renaissance in MP games, most of the time. That is turn 75.

I was wondering if a trigger say..when you hit turn 75 each city gets a settler then again in say turn 150.

Thanks for the response...


I have my Uncle below in case I (WE) accidently create bugs..
Grandpa Troll

[Locutus]

Okay, I made example for the case of Tanks: as soon as Tank Warfare is discovered, you get a free Tank in every city (note that this code is untested but based on the Militia code for the MedMod, so it should work).

Note that you have to use the index for advances, you can't call them by name in CtP1 as you can do with units. The index is simply its location in advance.txt: ADVANCE_AGRICULTURE is 0, ADVANCE_TOOLMAKING is 1, etc (in the original game).

trigger 'SpawnTank' when (player.1 && discovery.type == 55) { 	// 55 = tank warfare
	i = 0;
	while (i < player.1.cities) {	// loop through all cities
		SetCityByIndex(1, player.1, i);
		CreateUnit(player.1, UnitType("UNIT_TANK"), city.location, 0);	// create a tank
		i = i + 1;
	}
}

[Grandpa Troll]

Thanks..I been working some 16 hour days..hopefully can try out tommorrow!
Ill post back!

'Preciate it!

[Grandpa Troll]

Originally posted by Locutus
Okay, I made example for the case of Tanks: as soon as Tank Warfare is discovered, you get a free Tank in every city (note that this code is untested but based on the Militia code for the MedMod, so it should work).

Note that you have to use the index for advances, you can't call them by name in CtP1 as you can do with units. The index is simply its location in advance.txt: ADVANCE_AGRICULTURE is 0, ADVANCE_TOOLMAKING is 1, etc (in the original game).

trigger 'SpawnTank' when (player.1 && discovery.type == 55) { 	// 55 = tank warfare
	i = 0;
	while (i < player.1.cities) {	// loop through all cities
		SetCityByIndex(1, player.1, i);
		CreateUnit(player.1, UnitType("UNIT_TANK"), city.location, 0);	// create a tank
		i = i + 1;
	}
}

Worked like a charm...

I have the years per turn slowed down so that I have plenty of years of growth and Battle with the latest technology...

I discovered Tanks at turn 52 and each of my cities got a free tank!

Works great!

I will continue to work with the model SLIC you wrote to work on my scenario!

Now..to resolve the settler-spawn issue...

Peace

Grandpa "Voting-Locutus-4-Prez"Troll

[Grandpa Troll]

Originally posted by Locutus
Okay, I made example for the case of Tanks: as soon as Tank Warfare is discovered, you get a free Tank in every city (note that this code is untested but based on the Militia code for the MedMod, so it should work).

Note that you have to use the index for advances, you can't call them by name in CtP1 as you can do with units. The index is simply its location in advance.txt: ADVANCE_AGRICULTURE is 0, ADVANCE_TOOLMAKING is 1, etc (in the original game).

trigger 'SpawnTank' when (player.1 && discovery.type == 55) { 	// 55 = tank warfare
	i = 0;
	while (i < player.1.cities) {	// loop through all cities
		SetCityByIndex(1, player.1, i);
		CreateUnit(player.1, UnitType("UNIT_TANK"), city.location, 0);	// create a tank
		i = i + 1;
	}
}

Question Oh Great Locutus

Say I decide upon something like a Blitzkreig (a.k.a. Lightning War) type scenario..where I would say create maybe 4 tanks per city or whatever the number may be..

What number in the above code would I change?

I was thinking it was i=i + 1;..change the "1" to a "2" to read the following i=i + 2

Would this be correct?

I am trying to teach myself this and would greatly appreciate any assistance...


I forget..maybe it was Big Dave..years ago..or maybe JByethway..at any rate....

they responded in a post...something like this:

EDIT:

TEST:

EDIT:

TEST:

and it dawned on me..DUH!...try and if it works..great if not dont..

Point in case..I had my PW trigger..set at 60 pw per citizen..seems great but very quickly you have far to much pw......

I backed down to 16 per citizen and maybe..will back that down..soon..

I have a hamster wheel spinning around in me head..I am just trying N tweaking to make some enjoyable scenarios...



HEY BLACKICE!!!!!! GUESS WHAT..I CAN PLAY SCENARIOS THE WAY I WANT SO AS NO ONE IS EXPOSED TO MY EXCLUDED UNITS!!!

Whoa...This makes me sooooo happy!!


Peace

Grandpa Troll

[J Bytheway]

Originally posted by Grandpa Troll
Say I decide upon something like a Blitzkreig (a.k.a. Lightning War) type scenario..where I would say create maybe 4 tanks per city or whatever the number may be..

What number in the above code would I change?

I was thinking it was i=i + 1;..change the "1" to a "2" to read the following i=i + 2

Would this be correct?

Nope, doing that would make it create a tank in every other city, rather than in every city. The simplest way to do what you want is to duplicate the CreateUnit(...) line, if there are two of them it will make two units. A slightly more elegant way would be something like this:

trigger 'SpawnTank' when (player.1 && discovery.type == 55) { 	// 55 = tank warfare
	i = 0;
	while (i < player.1.cities) {	// loop through all cities
		SetCityByIndex(1, player.1, i);
		j=0;
		while (j < 4) {
			CreateUnit(player.1, UnitType("UNIT_TANK"), city.location, 0);	// create a tank
			j = j + 1;
		}
		i = i + 1;
	}
}

Which should create 4 tanks in each city. The number 4 there is the one you want to change. This creates the tanks and at the same time counts with j from 0 to 3 (as I said, we tend to count from 0 here...), creating a tank at each value of j, and thus producing 4 tanks.

(Usual disclaimers apply: untested, etc.)

[Grandpa Troll]

I just tried the repeating the create unit line and it works like a champ!

Another question...

Lets say I wanted to have an ocean game..and had a trigger to add sol's and later battleships...

I am taking it that only ocean or lake front tiles would create them..

My concern is a game crashing if the loop was for all cities but not all cities could produce them?

Thanks

GT

[J Bytheway]

I think there might be a function that checks whether a city is coastal or not - have a look at the function reference and see if you can spot anything useful.

In fact, though, I think you won't have any problems - if the game cannot create the unit it will probably simply carry on without crashing. A more likely problem is that you'll end up with landlocked ships.

Anyway, give it a try and see what happens - experimentation is the best way to learn .

[Grandpa Troll]

..I will thanks

Problem now......

I went and tried then above mentioned idea of copying the create unit for a unit

I got 4 marines in some cities no marines in other cities

repeat for tanks..the exact cities that got the 4 marines got 4 tanks

I did fortify the marines outside of city so as to make room for the tanks

I have 51 cities...

I got 52 marines

then 52 tanks

Any reason you can think of?
I am going to copy the triggers..maybe you can see where I failed...

trigger 'SpawnTank' when (player.1 && discovery.type == 55) { // 55 = tank warfare
i = 0;
while (i < player.1.cities) { // loop through all cities
SetCityByIndex(1, player.1, i);
CreateUnit(player.1, UnitType("UNIT_TANK"), city.location, 0); // create a tank
i = i + 1;
CreateUnit(player.1, UnitType("UNIT_TANK"), city.location, 0); // create a tank
i = i + 1;
CreateUnit(player.1, UnitType("UNIT_TANK"), city.location, 0); // create a tank
i = i + 1;
CreateUnit(player.1, UnitType("UNIT_TANK"), city.location, 0); // create a tank
i = i + 1;
}
}
trigger 'SpawnMarines' when (player.1 && discovery.type == 59) { // 59 = Mass Production
i = 0;
while (i < player.1.cities) { // loop through all cities
SetCityByIndex(1, player.1, i);
CreateUnit(player.1, UnitType("UNIT_MARINES"), city.location, 0); // create a marine
i = i + 1;
CreateUnit(player.1, UnitType("UNIT_MARINES"), city.location, 0); // create a marine
i = i + 1;
CreateUnit(player.1, UnitType("UNIT_MARINES"), city.location, 0); // create a marine
i = i + 1;
CreateUnit(player.1, UnitType("UNIT_MARINES"), city.location, 0); // create a marine
i = i + 1;
}
}

Thanks

GT

[Grandpa Troll]

Originally posted by J Bytheway
I think there might be a function that checks whether a city is coastal or not - have a look at the function reference and see if you can spot anything useful.

In fact, though, I think you won't have any problems - if the game cannot create the unit it will probably simply carry on without crashing. A more likely problem is that you'll end up with landlocked ships.

Anyway, give it a try and see what happens - experimentation is the best way to learn .

Actually, I do love finding a city with a tile or two of water.then i often create a 9 stack of Battleships..

this way, in effect, you have a possibility of 18 units...

awesome bombardment capabilities, plus if your city gets attacked you now have 9 to replace units with....


OR

U can take that 9 stack and use them to help build an improvement by disbanding them within the city...to help "rush-buy" something like an oil refinery or drug store....


Peace

GT

[Grandpa Troll]

..just studying the code..was I supposed to copy the whole text..and then it makes a unit in each city?

As in maybe 2 + duplicates of "all" the trigger..

or as asked above..simply the line "creat unit....."??

Thanks..just grabbing some..well...

[J Bytheway]

You shouldn't copy the i = i + 1 lines - that's making it skip some of your cities. Just copy the CreateUnit lines.

[Grandpa Troll]

Originally posted by J Bytheway
You shouldn't copy the i = i + 1 lines - that's making it skip some of your cities. Just copy the CreateUnit lines.

thx a bunch!

GT