Oil Mining in Warcraft 3

[doctor25]

Anyone have some ideas they could throw at me on how I could get oil mining in a Warcraft 2 styled map in the Warcraft 3 WE?

 

[sethmachine]

Very easy if you don't also need gold mines.

(1) Create a custom goldmine that can be placed in water (i.e. an oil field / derrick)

(2) Create custom workers which are ships that act as oil tankers.

(3) Create a shipyard building which acts as a drop off point for oil.

If that's too simple, a second solution is to code the behavior required for oil gathering. How does this work?

(1) Assign each oil field a region to detect when a tanker enters it.

(2) When a tanker enters an oil field, add oil to the tanker (visually if you want).

(3) Order the tanker to return to a viable shipyard / town hall.

(4) When the tanker is in X range of that target town hall, add the oil to the player, performing any visuals necessary, e.g. +10 (in black floating text or something).

(5) Order the tanker to move to the closest oil region controlled by the player

(6) Go back to (1)

Note you'll also need a custom spell that allows the tanker to target a valid oil field. That will start the entire loop until it's ordered otherwise.

 

[Chaosy]

http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/...05-a-225610/?prev=d=list&r=20&u=rulerofiron99

This system was made for this purpose.