Cooldown, Gold Cost AND Techtree Requirement on Ability/Unit

[Damage]

So the title sets out basically what I want.

I want to be able to cast an ability (or train a unit, it doesn't matter which) but it must:
1) Have a Resource Cost, which is not trigger related.
2) Have a cooldown, again preferably not trigger related.
3) Have a tech-tree requirement. This must absolutely not be trigger related.

The 4 things I tried are:
1) Base it on Channel. Channel can have a techtree requirement and a cooldown, but I can't associate a gold cost with it.
2) Base it on "Charge Gold/Lumber" ability. Works with Techtree requirement and costs Gold to use, however the cooldown does NOT work for this ability.
3) Base it on Hiring (selling) a unit. Gives it a cooldown, and a gold cost, but now it ignores techtree requirements.
4) Base it on training a unit. Gives it a gold cost and a techtree requirement, but now I can't give it a cooldown.


All I want essentially is a button that has all 3 requirements in one go. Doesn't matter if it's a train unit button or ability or whatever, as long as it caters for all 3.

 

[Lender]

i don't know if its possible but why does it matters not to be trigger related?

base it on channel and trigger the gold requirements

 

[Damage]

Because then the tooltip looks weird. I want the tooltip to properly grey out when techtree requirements aren't met, and I want a normal cooldown display. Also, if you cast Channel and don't have the gold, the ability will get put on cooldown anyway, and that's not an acceptable outcome.

 

[Lender]

you can manually Reset the cooldown on the ability if the player not have the required amount of gold, and gold requirements doesen't have special displays except the error message , but u can trigger that as well

 

[Damage]

The gold shows in the tooltip, actually, which it won't if it is triggered. And resetting the cooldown isn't a good idea because you can only reset all the abilities owned by the caster, not an individual spell.

 

[Lender]

this way u can reset the cooldown on one ability

• Untitled Trigger 001
  • Events
    • Unit - A unit Begins casting an ability
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Custom script: local integer abil
      • Multiple FunctionsIf (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
        • If - Conditions
          • (Ability being cast) Equal to (==) Thunder Clap
          • (Player 1 (Red) Current gold) Less than (<) 100
        • Then - Actions
          • Unit - Order (Triggering unit) to stop
          • Custom script: set abil = GetSpellAbilityId()
          • Custom script: call UnitRemoveAbility(GetTriggerUnit(),abil)
          • Custom script: call UnitAddAbility(GetTriggerUnit(),abil)
        • Else - Actions

U can even add error massage to it and the spell description is to small problem IMO to not do this

at least u can achive what u want this way

EDIT: oh and don't forget to store the abilitys lvl in a variable and set it back after readded it to the unit
cus it will be lvl 1

 

[Damage]

Actually, can an item have all 3 things assigned to it? Guess the only problem there is that there has to be something nearby to purchase the item.

 

[Lender]

you mean an item with the same spell? with its requirements?

its nearly the same. the difference is that u not give the spell to the unit but to the item

correct me if its not what you meant

 

[Damage]

Not quite what I meant.
I mean, a shop (i.e. a Structure) sells an item. The actual button to buy the item can have a cooldown (via Stock Replenishment) a Techtree requirement and a gold cost.

The trigger would then check for when the item is purchased and go from there. Seems like this would be the best way to do it.

 

[Lender]

i c, the bad thing of it is if you want the buy button as a spell on the unit it cant be a hero or you need to make it AS a structure

 

[Damage]

Luckily, in this specific case the button is placed on a building, so there's no problem there. Thanks for helping out anyway.

 

[Meticulous]

Base it on charge gold/lumber. When the ability is used, remove it - then add a dummy ability based on Berserk, and order the unit to use the Berserk ability. Use a wait/timer equal to the cooldown of the dummy Berserk ability, and afterwards remove the Berserk ability and add the original charge gold ability. This should emulate the effect you're looking for.

 

[defskull]

If the thread starter would allow the trigger to solve the problem, I'd be gladly to help.
Don't worry, triggers are the ones that makes your map looks exceptionally better than non-triggered maps

Even melee map has its own trigger, lol

 

[Meticulous]

If the thread starter would allow the trigger to solve the problem, I'd be gladly to help.
Don't worry, triggers are the ones that makes your map looks exceptionally better than non-triggered maps

Even melee map has its own trigger, lol

As far as I can tell, the only reason he doesn't want anything triggered is because he wants the values to be displayed on the ability in the UI. As in, show when the ability is on cooldown, show in the tooltip how much gold it costs, and show it as disabled when the tech tree requirement isn't fulfilled. The only way I can think of doing this is what I posted above.

 

[Damage]

As Meticulous said, that's the exact reason. If possible, I want to utilise the game UI as much as possible.

However, I managed to find an even shorter way to overcome this anyway - simply make the button an item purchase button. It can have all the requirements above. As long as there's a hidden unit nearby with an inventory it works fine, especially if you remove the "Select Unit" ability from the shop and make the unit select indicator invisible. You'd never even know it was an item you were buying to trigger the effects.

But anyhow, case solved.

 

[Tal'Rarity]

Just incase you get tired of using dummy units.