@thedog actually i can't remember lol. i don't think so

@stohrm Try making some small changes and see if they work. If you have trouble achieving the desired effect, post here.

@beelee

Really? It's quite old - but really nice. I noticed it in sea battles years ago and wondered about it until I realized that it was a somehow funny description about what friendly units "do" when not attacking together with the currently active player. 🙂

@stohrm
splitting the two theaters was a reality, how ever you are in essence creating two new 'countries' by combing the units. I think this would best be served by keeping alliance armies whole and allowing each country to add to it with their separate productions. This way allowing them to also run their own combats apart from the combined army.

@beelee said in Transfer of Unit Ownership:

<option name="changeUnitOwners" value="Chinese"/>

Thanks, I had everything but the changeUnitOwners value right. It's working now.

@stohrm Why use a transfer of resources at all? You could get the same effect through a national objective or triggered event.

@lafayette I'm just waiting around for a reply to a query I posted late last night (early this AM); but I have to say that I agree with you (and what follows are my 2 cents).

An RC-135 is a Cargo Plane and the Air Force does use it to transport service members and their family members. It's damn cold, but it gets them from point A to B to C, etc.

Just saying.

PS. I don't recall them ever refitting a B-52 to hull troops and do believe there should be a distinction between bombers and Cargo Planes. On the other hand, Cargo planes have been used to hull Paratroopers...

@rogercooper
your line
<option name="victoryCity" value="1"/>
is outside of the required attachment , it should be inside.

<attachment name="territoryAttachment" attachTo="Berlin" javaClass="games.strategy.triplea.attachments.TerritoryAttachment" type="territory">
<option name="production" value="12"/>
<option name="capital" value="Germans"/>
</attachment>
<option name="victoryCity" value="1"/>

@beelee
Not sure this will help but...

Make the unit unique, say Infantry_us then use territoryEffect to aid, block, hinder the movement?
https://forums.triplea-game.org/topic/2892/how-i-am-using-movementcostmodifier

Unfortunately i have a bigger problem now. When having more than 1 trigger, they will both fire sometimes. I've tried multiple combinations with "when" and without it. Tried changing the trigger"true:true:false:false" to different combinations. No joy.

This is my latest attempt

<attachment name="triggerAttachment_USA_Loses_Marianas_Pacific_Expanded_Turn2andON" attachTo="Americans" javaClass="games.strategy.triplea.attachments.TriggerAttachment" type="player">
<option name="conditions" value="conditionAttachment_Americans_ControlMarianasInvert:conditionAttachmentTurn3"/>
<option name="resource" value="PUs"/>
<option name="resourceCount" value="-1"/>
<option name="uses" value="1"/>
<option name="when" value="before:americansEndTurn"/>
</attachment>

<attachment name="triggerAttachment_USA_Loses_Marianas_Pacific_Expanded_Turn2" attachTo="Americans" javaClass="games.strategy.triplea.attachments.TriggerAttachment" type="player"> <option name="conditions" value="conditionAttachment_Americans_LoseEXPMarianasTurn2:conditionAttachmentTurn2"/> <option name="resource" value="PUs"/> <option name="resourceCount" value="-1"/> <option name="uses" value="1"/> <option name="when" value="after:americansNonCombatMove"/> <option name="activateTrigger" value="triggerAttachment_USA_Loses_Marianas_Pacific_Expanded_Turn2andON:1:true:true:false:false"/> </attachment>

I have the same trigger for Paulau Island. Named differently of course.

What I want, is to have the "activate trigger" trigger fire only after the trigger that activates it fires.

What happens is, the USA takes Marianas from JPN. This activates a PU boost. USA gets it.

Next rd, Turn 2, JPN takes Marianas. They now get the PU boost and the USA receives a negative PU boost. This activates the trigger which has Turn 3 as a condition for it to fire, but it fires anyway, even though it's still turn 2.

So when USA takes over Marianas they get a PU boost. When JPN takes it back, the USA gets a negative one. This works correctly.

I want the USA to continue to receive a negative bonus until they take it back. This is not working.

I use "battle" in the conditions for the first trigger, then "directOwnership" invert for the trigger to activate.

Meaning Rd1 USA takes Marianas and gets a PU boost. Then if USA loses control the next turn, which is JPN attacking USA and having a battle
<option name="battle" value="Japanese:Americans:any:2-3:Marianas"/>
it will activate the trigger which should then fire on turn 3 if USA doesn't control Marianas.

So condition Turn 3 and InvertOwnership, that way it would still get the negative bonus without a battle on turn 3.

Hmm ... I don't like how I explained this but I'll just leave it for now.

Slightly off topic, but I thought y'all might enjoy this read: https://www.mapbox.com/blog/adaptive-projections

@schulz Yes: set the original owner to the nation and the owner initialize to the enemy.

@wc_sumpton

That's it. Now it works. Thx

@cernel

"Russia" territory in vX series not only represent Moscow, it represent all the areas between Moscow and Ural Mountains

v3 actually proved that Manchuria-Moscow distance can be increased but in the expense of making Japan incredibly strong to keep game balance. It actually changed nothing since it is still amost always better to go Atlantic only as USA. Plus there is still no reason to not attack Russia and Japan and take almost all Siberia.

If there is a Hawaiian factory and Germany can be reasonably countered without USA (like in Big World or WaW), a Pacific war is a guarantee thing but expense of (unhistorically) lack of significant US presence in Europe. But we would still have no two ocean going USA. It is easy to make Pacific an active front, hardest thing is making the actual US approach in WWII (%80 Atlantic-%20 Pacific) is a good choice rather than going only Atlantic and Pacific.

I think the issue is actually based on having naval units too expensive compared to ground units and lack of more defense oriented sea units hence making a Pacific war worthless investment as USA.

@lafayette right on yea I wanted to have a "map option" activate which rd the game would start for games that have multiple scenarios with different start dates. That way I could keep it all in 1 xml and not have to update multiple ones.

Only way I know of, is to make a trigger for each instance that would need adjusting, which is a lot. I thought if it was possible to only do a couple code lines and bingo, it would be sweet lol

@thedog said in How to place units in allied or major/minor territory?:

I would try creating more units, the indian units will need to end with say;
Indian units
Infantry_in
Tanks_in
factory_in

These units must specify the factory they can be produced from with
<option name="requiresUnits" value="factory_in/>

British units
Tanks_br
Fighter_br
factory_br

These units must specify the factory they can be produced from with
<option name="requiresUnits" value="factory_br"/>

Then the two factories can produce only their national units.

In your idea you will get units produced by the faction on its own factory located in its own territory?
If "yes", then, sorry, your idea is not relevant to this topic.

@thedog Take a look at these objectives from Global

<attachment name="objectiveAttachment_Italians_3_North_Africa" attachTo="Italians" javaClass="games.strategy.triplea.attachments.RulesAttachment" type="player"> <option name="objectiveValue" value="5"/> <option name="alliedOwnershipTerritories" value="Alexandria:Morocco:Algeria:Tunisia:Tobruk:Libya" count="6"/> </attachment> <attachment name="objectiveAttachment_Italians_4_Control_Iraq_Or_Persia_Or_Northwest_Persia" attachTo="Italians" javaClass="games.strategy.triplea.attachments.RulesAttachment" type="player"> <option name="objectiveValue" value="2"/> <option name="directOwnershipTerritories" value="Iraq:Persia:Northwest Persia" count="each"/> </attachment>

Attachment 3 counts the number of territories held by Italy and the other Axis powers. Although this is an objective attachment, it could just as easily be a triggered victory.

Attachment 4 counts only the territories held by Italy ("directOwnership").