Reduce cost of unit with trigger

[It's Not Good]

Hey yall, i was wondering if there was a way to use triggers to reduce the gold/lumber cost of a unit in the middle of a game.

For example:
Footman costs 200 gold
Player researches tech "supplies".
Now footman costs 100 gold.

Any help is appreciated.

 

[Daffa]

The common approach, instead of triggers, is to use two different footman units with different pricing.

I'm not sure if 1.31+ has a native that allows changing the gold cost of training unit directly.

 

[It's Not Good]

The common approach, instead of triggers, is to use two different footman units with different pricing.

I'm not sure if 1.31+ has a native that allows changing the gold cost of training unit directly.

Ahh okay, i might try that thank you

 

[Dr Super Good]

A less ideal work-around might be to "refund" 100 gold to the player every time a footman finishes training. This could be reflected with the upgrade tooltip. This could in theory happen when the footman is queued, with the refund being removed if the footman is cancelled, but the coding for that would be a lot more difficult to avoid potential exploits.

 

[It's Not Good]

A less ideal work-around might be to "refund" 100 gold to the player every time a footman finishes training. This could be reflected with the upgrade tooltip. This could in theory happen when the footman is queued, with the refund being removed if the footman is cancelled, but the coding for that would be a lot more difficult to avoid potential exploits.

Yeah this wouldn't work for this specific scenario.

What i am actually looking to do with it is reduce the cost of a unit based on the number of players in the game. Make it cheaper if there are less players. (It's a co-op game and buying the unit gives a bonus to all players, so it should cost less if there are less players to benefit from it. At least that's the idea)

 

[Pyrogasm]

Is the unit spawned or trained? If you just want to spawn a unit after clicking its button you should be able to use Charge Gold & Lumber and alter the cast cost with the ability field manipulation natives.

 

[It's Not Good]

Is the unit spawned or trained? If you just want to spawn a unit after clicking its button you should be able to use Charge Gold & Lumber and alter the cast cost with the ability field manipulation natives.

If i understand you right, you can charge gold/lumber to cast an ability, and alter the cost of the ability with triggers? What would that look like? Is that still doable in gui?

 

[Pyrogasm]

CG&L is an ability; it’s what spawns the Tiny town halls. You give that ability to the shop, and it can be cast only when a player has the correct resources. Detect that cast and spawn the special unit for the caster.

Complications arise if a neutral shop is the one that should be selling these units, because then knowing which player cast the spell is harder.

Look at the abilities action category and you will see things like “set ability integer level field” and the like. Those can be changed dynamically for any ability, but it does require you to work with the field names as shown in the Object Editor, and some fields are simply unsupported.

Gold/lumber cost would be integer fields that might or might not be level-dependent. I don’t know how CG&L scales with level off the top of my head. Look for the cost field, find its 4-character identifier (like ‘Emcs’), and see if you can also find that field in the integer (or integer level) fields a trigger will let you change.

 

[It's Not Good]

CG&L is an ability; it’s what spawns the Tiny town halls. You give that ability to the shop, and it can be cast only when a player has the correct resources. Detect that cast and spawn the special unit for the caster.

Complications arise if a neutral shop is the one that should be selling these units, because then knowing which player cast the spell is harder.

Look at the abilities action category and you will see things like “set ability integer level field” and the like. Those can be changed dynamically for any ability, but it does require you to work with the field names as shown in the Object Editor, and some fields are simply unsupported.

Gold/lumber cost would be integer fields that might or might not be level-dependent. I don’t know how CG&L scales with level off the top of my head. Look for the cost field, find its 4-character identifier (like ‘Emcs’), and see if you can also find that field in the integer (or integer level) fields a trigger will let you change.

Okay that sounds pretty neat. Ill give it a shot. But worst case scenario ill have to find another work around. Thanks for all the help!

 

[DoomBlade]

You could have an upgrade with unit availabilty change. Make the 100 gold cost Footman available while disabling the 200g gold cost footman. I have not tested this in practice, but it seems like a straight forward upgrade to solve this issue.