Leaderboard Income

[Swiftbeard]

I alrdy have a leaderboard set up. Now i want points to increase on the board as gold increases.

Also, lets say I have 2 values of gold coming in.

One value being 100, the other value being 1. Is there a way that every time value 1 gold is collected, I get 100 points on the leaderboard. And when value 100 gold comes in, nothing happens.

Here's what I have:

Events
Player - Player 1 (Red)'s Current gold becomes Equal to 1.00
Conditions
Actions
Leaderboard - Change the value for (Matching player) in (Last created leaderboard) to 100
Leaderboard - Sort (Last created leaderboard) by Value in Descending order


however, points aren't added to the board when 1 gold. So I figure the event has got to be diff right? What should it be?

 

[Dr. Boom]

Seas =)

I only looked 1 second over your trigger and there's something wrong.

"Matching Player" - you have to use "Triggering Player"

"Matching Player" is only able to use, if you check a condition for Players.

 

[Swiftbeard]

well I did change to triggering player and it still doesn't work. I just want to make it so that when i receive 1 gold I get X amount of point, and when I get 100 gold I get no points.

 

[dgriff]

• Player - Player 1 (Red)'s Current gold becomes Equal to 1.00

is different from

• Player - Player 1 (Red)'s Current gold increases by 1.00

My suggestion is to use a global variable, not gold, to keep track of a player's score. Whenever you want to increase a player's score you just increase his global variable. You can also use the global variable when updating the leaderboard.

 

[Swiftbeard]

• Player - Player 1 (Red)'s Current gold increases by 1.00

is that even a real event? Cause I don't see it anyway


But anyway, how would ur global variable help me with what I want to do?

 

[dgriff]

No I it's not a real event, I was just showing the difference between the two ideas.

In order to help you out more, I think I need to know more generally what you're trying to do. Why are you using gold to keep track of a player's score?

 

[Swiftbeard]

I want to make an oil resource for my game. Since there is no oil resource in the game, I'm trying new ways to make one.

One way I have my mind set is making a custom gold mine with the name oil patch. A boat/worker will go to the "oil patch" and bring back 1 gold to wherever it needs to return it to.

What I want to do is that every time I receive one 1 gold, I gain 100 points (oil resource). Also once I earn that 1 gold, the 1 gold will be reduced from my total gold to make it seem like I didn't really receive any gold.

 

[dgriff]

So you have 3 resources: gold, lumber, and oil. Units can mine both oil and gold from "gold mines" so you use the amount returned to determine which resource they've mined?

If you just have two resources, oil and lumber, then you can just replace the icon of "gold" and the name "gold" with oil and you don't have to worry about any of this.

How, by the way, are you going to make buildings and units require three types of resources?

 

[Swiftbeard]

So you have 3 resources: gold, lumber, and oil. Units can mine both oil and gold from "gold mines" so you use the amount returned to determine which resource they've mined?

If you just have two resources, oil and lumber, then you can just replace the icon of "gold" and the name "gold" with oil and you don't have to worry about any of this.

How, by the way, are you going to make buildings and units require three types of resources?

I figured I'd just make it so once a unit is created, X amount of oil is subtracted from the score board.

But is there any other way to make a 3rd resource?

 

[dgriff]

No easy way to make a 3rd resource that I know of.

I have two suggestions:

1) Replace gold completely with oil. This way you can keep the boat-harvesting-oil mechanic and the resource system will stay simple for you and the players.


2) Make an oil rig building. And then every 1 second, for each oil rig, you add 1 oil to the player who owns it.

The detailed way to do this would be everytime a building is created, if it's an oil rig, add it to a global unit group. Then have a repeating timer that picks every unit in the global unit group and gives +1 oil to the owning player. If a unit dies and it's an oil rig, remove it from the unit group. Using a leaderboard to keep track of this is still a good idea and your method for spending oil is as good as any.

 

[Sakuria]

Leaderboard - Change the value for (Matching player) in (Last created leaderboard) to 100

i haven't read through the other posts but i think this is the problem you aren't getting points, you need to set it to arithmetic, so it's + 100 not just, set it to 100

 

[pangahas]

I have tried making a 3rd resource for my own map using triggers involving custom items and item charges, but for sure it has leaks though. Idea was, in my map whenever a grain warehouse was built it would have a custom item grain set to 0 charges initially, then you have to build farms around it(the farms, when created would have the custom item grain set to 100 charges) then I used timers(thanks to krigekongen for this idea), whenever it expires the grain warehouse would pick 1 farm around it,reducing the item charge grain it has by 1 while adding 1 charge to the grainwarehouse. Well that's what I thought of..