"Gathering" Food Possible?

[mellomell]

Hey everyone,

Recently I was talking to a friend who is a fellow Warcraft 3 player, and he suggested to me a game mode in which your food supply would only go up by hunting it. We mulled it over and thought that it may be possible to assign a food value to a neutral unit which serves as "game" to hunt, and you simply use some kind of ability to acquire this unit that was assigned a food level, and when you create a new unit, that game is used in the units creation cost.

What is your opinion on this? I myself am not incredibly skilled at UMSWE, but would like to take this challenge on with my friend. If you understand what I'm asking and think you could help, it would be greatly appreciated!

 

[kevv2]

Yes it could be done, make it like, Unit kills a unit, creates a building giving 1 food suply to the killer
or unit bringing back an item gets that building, i could make a map showing it
Done

 

[mellomell]

kevv2 thank you SO much this is extremely helpful to my friend and I. We're looking it over right now and I gotta say its amazing. Thank you so much!!

 

[kevv2]

no problem im here to help
oh yeah and right now its a 4 player map and works for the 4 players to show how it works i set tht the Farms have sight, but if u make them without sight during Day and Night they will be invisible

 

[mellomell]

I hope 'm not asking too much, but i have another question.

Is there a way to have all units health slowly "decay"? You see our goal is to create a bit of a civilization "survival" game in which you must gather your food (something that you've already helped us with ) then "eat" (consume may work better for the sake of argument) that food to heal damage and for fatigue (the decaying health).

This seems like it might be a stretch (although so did the first thing, and I was wrong about that one wasn't I?) but you would know better than me. Do you think it could work? Thanks again. !

 

[kevv2]

Yeah thats a simple trigger like, set a unit's regeneration to 0 and do this....

• Decay
  • Events
    • Time - Every 2.00 seconds of game time
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • For each (Integer A) from 1 to 12, do (Actions)
      • Loop - Actions
        • Unit Group - Pick every unit in (Units owned by (Player((Integer A)))) and do (Actions)
          • Loop - Actions
            • Unit - Set life of (Picked unit) to ((Life of (Picked unit)) - 1.00)

this is customizable, like now it picks player red's up to Brown's unit, if you dont want Brown to be affected by it set it from 1 to 11, Also if a certain kind of unit shouldnt have the Decay, set it so it has more HP regeneration then the amount of HP lsot per second by the trigger right now its 1 HP per 2 seconds, or .5 HP per second to every unit, setting their life regeneration to 0 would make them unable to heal without a potion or an aura giving life regeneration bonus

 

[mellomell]

Once again I am very grateful and impressed. I sent it through to my friend, he's working on the whole little project right now. (he's doing all the busy work since he's had the game longer. I just come up with detail ideas and find helpful people/resources like yourself on the internet when he runs into a triggering problem. I'm definitely going to remember your name for if (and when) we run into another problem. Thank you so very much!

 

[kevv2]

np, if u need anyhting else, dont be afraid to ask

 

[PurplePoot]

Set their regeneration to negative for health, and modify their food values via code rather than spamming invisible buildings.

 

[kevv2]

Hmmmm, i havnt thaught of that, u can modify the food value? O_O i actualy never tried, and i had no clue you could set to negative Regen values whenever i tryed it epic failed

 

[mellomell]

Yeah My friend seems to have figured something out. Idk how ill ask him and share how he ended up going about it. thanks to both of you