How to reduce item stock quantity

[Vex]

Hi.

The question is simple. I have a neutral building that sell items. I want to remove N items from the stock of each type in that shop using triggers or jass. Like 'Healing Potion' with quantity 5 reduced to quantity 2 and stay like that (replenish rate set to 99999).

I know about the 'Neutral Building - Add/Remove items of type'. The problem with those, is that shortcut commands for buying items becomes unavailable. Players are supposed to buy different item-types fast, so shortcut commands is more important than stock reduction. Both would be nice though.

So if anyone knows of a way, no matter how complicated, I'd be grateful if you told me.

I have one possible solution that I don't want to use if possible. Create a unit with an inventory near the shop, wait for shop interaction, somehow force it to buy items then destroy them. Only way to do this as far as I know, is to create the unit for a user player, force the player to select the shop, then force it to press keyboard key's matching the item-types that should get their quantity reduced. Not a pretty way to do it.. If a non-user player could do this, it would be alot better.

 

[howl2000]

If it doesn't have to be jass or triggered, then you could just make a copy of the item and give it less stock in the object editor. Then put those items in your new shop.

If it does have to be jass or triggered then I can't help you.

 

[Vex]

Didn't think about that possibility. Only thing is that it's 21 different item-types that should be able to have everything from 1 to 12 in stock.

Do you or anyone else happen to know the limit of custom objects and if there is separate limits for units, items, destructibles etc. or a total? If it's 'big enough', I'll go ahead and do it like that.

*Edit: nm, found out it was something like 7700 just for custom items Thanks for the help howl!