Problem with my trigger.

[Grimm_Borow]

Could someone explain me, what's the problem whit this event?

• Time - Every (5.00 - (1.00 x (Real((Number of living farm units owned by Player 1 (Red)))))) seconds of game time

It should increase the food cap by 1 every (5-1*number of farms) seconds. But in this case, food cap always rises in every 5 seconds, no matter how many farms i have.

 

[Maker]

It uses the unit count at map initialization, the count is zero. It doesn't update the count as the game progresses.

 

[Grimm_Borow]

Is it possible, to make it update somehow?

 

[Bannar]

Create an action in map initialization trigger that adds all farms into a group like farm_group.
Remember to create a trigger that has event Unit ends building structure - or smth like this (got no Eng editor) and add the buidling being contructed into farm_group if the given building type is farm.
Egzample:

• init
  • Events
    • Unit - A unit ends building structure
  • Conditions
    • (Unit-type of (Constructed structure)) equal to Farm
  • Actions
    • Unit group - Add (Constructed structure) to farm_group

If you want to remove units from this group when it dies do similar trigger with event - Unit dies and action: Remove unit from unit group.

 

[Maker]

You could make it run every 1 seconds and keep track of the times it has looped with an integer. If the integer matches the count then increase food cap and calculate a new value.

Something like this:

Every 1 seconds
if value = 0 then
Value = number of units
set food cap
else
value = value - 1
endif

 

[Bannar]

I've forgotten: use the integer condition about number of units in group in your event:

• Time - Every (5.00 - (1.00 x (Real((Number of units in farm_group))))) seconds of game time

 

[Grimm_Borow]

Thank you guys for the replys!

I tryed both of them, and unfortunately neither of them worked. But it's probably because of my noobism.

However i came up with solution:

I used a countdown timer instead of a periodic one, with the same values. When ever the timer expires, it fires it self again.

• Events
• Time - timer1 expires
• Conditions
• Actions
• Player - Add 1 to Player 1 (Red) Food cap
• Countdown Timer - Start timer 1 as a One-shot timer that will expire in (5.00 - (1.00 x (Real((Number of living farm units owned by Player 1 (Red)))))) seconds

Is it good, or it may cause somekind of leak or anything?

 

[Maker]

It leaks a unit group. Add

• Custom script: set bj_wantDestroyGroup = true

before starting the timer.

 

[Grimm_Borow]

Ok, thanks for the help!