Income from units, how?

[DarkPost]

Hey, would anyone help me with a trigger or something creating a gold rate per X sec for each of the same type of unit?

For example in the village builder gold map, it's these civillians wich generate about 3 gold per 30 sec or something.

How do i make an unending trigger that generates gold, and still stacks if you create more of those units to enlarge your income?

 

[Dr Super Good]

Trigger 1 adds 1 to a counter appon unit construction.
Trigger 2 is the opposite of 1 and removed 1 from the counter on unit death.

Trigger 3 is a perodic trigger that runs every X seconds and gives a player counter * Y gold.

That is the basic layout.

 

[DarkPost]

Trigger 1 adds 1 to a counter appon unit construction.
Trigger 2 is the opposite of 1 and removed 1 from the counter on unit death.

Trigger 3 is a perodic trigger that runs every X seconds and gives a player counter * Y gold.

That is the basic layout.

So let's say this income-unit is named ... ''Darkpost'', yeah, and everytime a 'darkpost' is created, it generates 5 gold every minute for it's owned until death. I get you that far, but how exactly should i puzzle togheter my trigger?

 

[Dr Super Good]

By making them? It is hardly a complex system. Use what I have given as a guide.

 

[Day-Elven]

• Actions
  • Set TempGroup = (Units in (Playable map area)((Unit-type of (Matching unit)) Equal to ))
  • Unit Group - Pick every unit in TempGroup and do (Actions)
    • Loop - Actions
      • Player - Add (3 x (Number of units in TempGroup)) to (Owner of (Picked unit)) Current gold
  • Unit Group - Destroy unit group TempGroup

 

[hunter_101]

Actually its alot easier than that. Or at least more straight forward...
I made the trigger when i didnt know much so its slightly archaic but it works,

Income
Events
Unit - A unit Finishes training a unit
Conditions
(Unit-type of (Trained unit)) Equal to 'Unit that you want to create Income'
((Trained unit) is alive) Equal to True
Actions
Player - Add 'gold amount' to (Owner of (Trained unit)) Current gold
Wait 'how often to occur' seconds
Trigger - Run (This trigger) (checking conditions)

You could make one of these triggers for each type of Income Unit You have or you could compack the trigger so that you can just have one for income so you wont have 20 different ones, it would play out like,

Income Multi
Events
Unit - A unit Finishes training a unit
Conditions
((Trained unit) is alive) Equal to True
Actions
If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
If - Conditions
(Unit-type of (Trained unit)) Equal to 'Unit that you want to create Income #1'
Then - Actions
Player - Add 'gold amount' to (Owner of (Trained unit)) Current gold
Wait 'how often to occur' seconds
Else - Actions
If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
If - Conditions
(Unit-type of (Trained unit)) Equal to 'Unit that you want to create Income #2'
Then - Actions
Player - Add 'gold amount' to (Owner of (Trained unit)) Current gold
Wait 'how often to occur' seconds
Else - Actions
Trigger - Run (This trigger) (checking conditions)

Using this method is the way it was set up in the original village builder so each unit brought in income relative to when they were created, if instead you were looking to make it so that when you built the income units they would just pool the gold together and give it to you in one larger payment then you'd have to look toward timers and more variables but just for the basic income this works. I hope this helps.

 

[Dr Super Good]

hunter_101, are you sure that method works? As currently I do not see how it can as you are running the trigger the second time with no units as input.

Or are you saying that event objects from one trigger carry over to an exectued trigger? As I did not know that could happen.

 

[DarkPost]

Thanks everyone.
You've helped alot, you might see my map somewhere soon, even tough it's just a newbie map B-)

 

[Day-Elven]

@hunter_101 easier than what? My method takes only 1 lines. Other lines are memory leak removing.

 

[hunter_101]

Well not nescisarily easier, but more straightforward and easier to look at/modify... or at least for me, its just the way i trigger.

Dr. Super Good, yeah im sure that it works, its the exact trigger that i used in the VB series so i know it does. The last action works like a loop that only checks the dependencies/conditions to loop, as long as the trained unit is alive and of the same type it continues to produce income.

 

[Eleandor]

Dr. Super Good, yeah im sure that it works, its the exact trigger that i used in the VB series so i know it does. The last action works like a loop that only checks the dependencies/conditions to loop, as long as the trained unit is alive and of the same type it continues to produce income.

Sorry but it's 2vs1... That trigger won't work.

 

[hunter_101]

haha, of course, i forgot that triggers worked democratically lol.

 

[Eleandor]

Good one. Anyway, make a map with those triggers and test them. You'll see they won't work...

 

[hunter_101]

Just Did, and it does work. Like i said, the Exact same trigger i used in VB which the income worked fine. Here i'll attach the map and you can test it for yourself and look at the trigger.

 

[Dr Super Good]

He is right, it does work. It seems that triggers executed via another trigger inherit the attached event based objects of that trigger.

Basically, this is the same effect as storing the unit in a local and using a conditional loop that loops until the unit is dead. Well a slightly less efficent version as the type comparision is unnescescary after intial execute.

 

[Dr Super Good]

No you will not be fine, your map will be ruined as every 30 seconds leaks will cause your map to use more and more system resources until the point at which it will become unplayable.

Also there are far simpler and way more efficent alternatives.

Also are you aware this thread was solved 4 months ago? Please read the site rules. . .

 

[ShadowDemonLord]

Hunter_101, for your trigger, wha tif you wanted the unit to be removed after certain amount of time, what would the conditions be then for the multiple units?

 

[PaperJack]

Give your income producing unit a customized version of that ability that's used to make the goblin tinkerer robots (how is it called in english?) that produces a money unit and then a trigger:
A unit is created
if the unit created is your money unit
remove the unit
give the owner a sum of gold.

It should be leakless and simple.