@victoryfirst said in How to make captured units controlled by another power:

I got it to work I added an original owner to each neutral and then did this:

Nice! 👍 👍

Cheers...

A number of properties are listed here: https://github.com/triplea-game/triplea/blob/master/game-app/game-core/src/main/java/games/strategy/triplea/Constants.java

(that location is subject to change & that list might not be complete)

@cameron

Omg thank you it worked!! I was spending so much time on this! I completely missed the absence of the forward slash! Lol pretty weird indeed, I just started XML coding yesterday and it has been giving me multiple headaches so far 🙂

@cameron yea I don't think triplea can do that unless there allied Ftrs being carried as cargo.

The Ftrs aren't actually on the CV in triplea. They just fly a endless CAP i guess 🙂

@beelee

The "<!--" that was making the block red was the start of a comment section. You might want to remove the "-->" that marks the end of the comment section, "</territoryEffectList> -->", before it may cause further problems.

Cheers...

the Steampunk_Advanced.xml that i've been modding had them like that, as separate entries i mean.
this is my first proper mod so it's all rather new to me.

@azimuth
transport cost is definitely not the answer i am looking for; which doesn't mean that it can't provide a solution... but i suspect a rather ugly one. 😜

the problem is there are rather a lot of units:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1NnFVfK3eOrjdNwnmiA4q6ytV6VHLN8mNbgTetywtHm4/edit?usp=sharing

am i right in assuming that transport costs must be integers?
maybe i'll see what happens if i make them 0.9... otherwise i guess i could just multiply all the other values by 10 and make aviatrix/hero 9... hmm... that would allow one extra hero to be transported on the largest transport but that's prob fine - such an edge case it'll most likely never happen.
i really wish my OCD wasn't triggered in such silly ways... 😉

edit:
so i went with 100x for everything and 99 for the aviatrix and hero. seems to work. 🙂
i still wonder why only integers.
and why we can't just have toggles for everything.

thanks, y'all.

@rogercooper said in Units in Combat - can we limit what a nonAA unit can target in combat?:

canNotTarget ...

i guess i was hoping i could just list the two units i want it to be able to target rather than list every other unit - combination of laziness and desire for less clutter and desire to have less things to update when i invariably end up adding more units...

@azimuth
[[laughs]] that sounds like a nightmare. i feel like the objective for it would end up being 80+% of the xml file... (not ALL the territories - just the land ones...)
i'll most likely be the only person who ever plays this mod and i tend to ignore victory triggers anyway - i'm a conquer the whole world kinda player. 🙂

@wc_sumpton Great news! Thank you!

@LaFayette Should new maps/games which (quite certainly like this one) will be released after TripleA 2.6 is released avoid having the "mapName" entry in the game (XML) file?

excellent. that worked perfectly (once i corrected the slight typo at the end (that final '/')).
thank you kindly. : )

I actually found a very, very, very dirty trick. But my map is already so heavily modded that it could do the job. Sharing just in case 😉

I use the repairPlayers step option, which allows a player to repair for another player. The feature seems to be working ONLY if the main player has anything to repair for himself (which isn't very logic or intuitive). To say it another way, if you want Germans to be able to repare italian factories, you need to have at least one german damaged facility as well, otherwise the phase is skipped.

So I created two extra (hidden) players, " Axis" and "Allies". Only those two have the repair frontier. In order to have the repairPlayers feature working (see above), both have a (hidden) fake damaged unit on the map (in Sahara and Himalaya, respectively) that cannot be repaired (no repair frontier).

This way, the repair screen doesn't pop-up before regular players purchase phase (as they don't have the frontier). Instead, just after the Place phase of each players, there is a separate "repair" phase, actually lead by the "Axis" and "Allies" players, and using pooled resources.

This all just to make sure factories cannot be repaired before placing units...

@black_elk

You are a triplea treasure Elkstar 🙂

Found this too late to be of much use, but yeah I had the same issues a few times when trying to create a place.txt for a couple maps. What happened in my case was that I had accidentally blanked a place, which is fairly easy to do since it's a lot of click/shift click to add or remove entries, but then without any assigned coordinates for a tile it would throw off that error.

Another sorta similar error I think can happen if you have a duplicate entry in the text files. like say for a tile that was renamed. The utility also sometimes asks if you want to use the centers or polys, which can reintroduce an old label depending on which order you make the change.

I think it happened to me there in a similar situation, like where I had an impassible tile listed twice, Sahara vs Sahara Desert or the like. That was easier to hunt down than the non existent/blanked place since at least I was able to search the txt file. Sucks the you had to go through that to manually delete the text blocks, hopefully you didn't lose too much work.

After a couple snafus I started getting in the habit of maybe an extra copy of all the txt files each time I went in to edit them. Just in case something goofed, I'd have an earlier copy to reference. I had almost hosed like a whole weekends worth of placements for the big map, but somehow theDog was able to figure out which lines were different and saved my bacon.

Anyhow, glad you figured it out. The map making tools can be really finicky, cause it you have to save it to launch and confirm changes, but usually the way I tend to do stuff, it'll be more than a few entries at a go.

@azimuth what exactly are you trying todo with SBR ? There may be a way around it, although probably doubtful 🙂

I've tried tweaking them before without much success 🙂

@cameron said in Universal Objectives:

Thanks for the replies.

Think i might just make special factory type units that spawn the special units.

I tried:

<attachment name="territoryAttachment" attachTo="Themyscira" javaClass="games.strategy.triplea.attachments.TerritoryAttachment" type="territory"> <option name="production" value="1"/> <option name="unitProduction" value="1"/> <option name='createsUnitsList' value='1:amazons'/> </attachment>

but i guess those options only work with units? Or did i just miss something. I seem to be constantly missing things...

In the line, you are using primes, whereas you should use seconds (also known as double primes) (as TripleA wrongly uses seconds as if they are either primary American English quotation marks or secondary British English quotation marks, also know as double quotes).

Yes, that is only for units: just have an "infrastructure" unit creating whatever you need wherever you need it in the starting setup.

Is there a list of list of territory attachments like this helpful list?

The official reference for game-making is
https://github.com/triplea-maps/the_pact_of_steel/blob/master/map/games/pact_of_steel_2.xml

@azimuth Try using "Movement By Territory Restricted" to prohibit movement anywhere.

@tannenbernie It is good that you tried to a test map first. Many would-be modders try something overly ambitious and then give up when the run into problems. I wish you luck on your new mod.