Negative resources

[UreDe4D]

Is it possible somehow to allow resources to be negative with triggers?

i'm using this action:

• Player - Add -5 to (Owner of (Killing unit)).Current gold

But it does not go below zero. I basically want to allow players in certain situations to spend more gold than they have.

 

[Pyrogasm]

No, resources are not designed to work that way. Use/make a custom resource, set the 'zero point' for gold to be 100 or something so 85g would be -15, or grant the necessary gold to use when at 0 but keep track of the total negative gold with a multiboard so players know what they're actually at when below 0.

 

[Uncle]

With the custom UI stuff you can easily create your own Gold UI replacing the existing one.

Or you could do what Pyro said about tracking the gold from 0 and then moving up from there. But instead of a multiboard you could create a text frame that displays "-" to the left of the player's gold frame while they have negative gold. Although, at that point since you're tracking the gold anyway I would just make it full blown custom UI.