Great work. Thank you.

Currently, I'm writing PERL scripts to create the game file, but will try this. Drawing feathers on dinosaurs is exhausting.

I like the production swapping because evolution will be sequential. Do rule changes disturb order in the purchase menu? (ie. remove then add to end, which changes location.)

I was about to post a request for a hashavehadResource checker. Was reading some of your passed conversations. How did that resolve? Is there a method for checking the status of another player's Fuel (for example) and using that as a condition? If not ... I'll use units (isInfrastructure) placed into capitals to note the evolution, and keep adding with each round until the grant condition triggers. Can also place hidden units into impassible territories to record other items in conjunction with unitPresence.

This is my ugly hack for creating a TIMER (untested, just sketching), to be activated when a player buys an evolution like feathers, then nests, ... and so on. The TIMER is meant to give ALL players the evolution due to gene pool contamination. Thus, allowing all players to keep up. The buyer gets a 6 round head start (as sketched), but other players can also buy. So, first clock must turn off all other clocks and granting the evolution cannot de-evolve a player if they've already moved on to the next.

<attachment name="conditionAttachmentHettangianE1" attachTo="Hettangian" javaClass="games.strategy.triplea.attachments.RulesAttachment" type="player"> <option name="directPresenceTerritories" value="map" count="1"/> <option name="unitPresence" value="feathers" count="1"/> </attachment> <attachment name="triggerAttachmentHettangianE1" attachTo="Hettangian" javaClass="games.strategy.triplea.attachments.TriggerAttachment" type="player"> <option name="conditions" value="conditionAttachmentHettangianE1"/> <option name="when" value="after:HettangianPlace"/> <option name="frontier" value="productionHettangianE1"/> <option name="removeUnits" value="all:feathers" count="1"/> <option name="placement" value="HCapital:HEFeather" count="1"/> <option name="uses" value="1"/> </attachment> <attachment name="conditionAttachmentHettangianE1timer" attachTo="Hettangian" javaClass="games.strategy.triplea.attachments.RulesAttachment" type="player"> <option name="directPresenceTerritories" value="HCapital" count="1"/> <option name="unitPresence" value="HEfeather" count="1"/> </attachment> <attachment name="triggerAttachmentHettangianE1timer" attachTo="Hettangian" javaClass="games.strategy.triplea.attachments.TriggerAttachment" type="player"> <option name="conditions" value="conditionAttachmentHettangianE1timer"/> <option name="when" value="before:HettangianPlace"/> <option name="placement" value="HCapital:HEFeather" count="1"/> <option name="uses" value="5"/> </attachment> <attachment name="conditionAttachmentHettangianE1done" attachTo="Hettangian" javaClass="games.strategy.triplea.attachments.RulesAttachment" type="player"> <option name="directPresenceTerritories" value="HCapital" count="1"/> <option name="unitPresence" value="HEfeather" count="6"/> </attachment> <attachment name="triggerAttachmentHettangianE1done" attachTo="Hettangian" javaClass="games.strategy.triplea.attachments.TriggerAttachment" type="player"> <option name="conditions" value="conditionAttachmentHettangianE1done"/> <option name="when" value="before:HettangianPlace"/> <option name="activateTrigger" value="triggerAttachmentE1giveall:1:false:false:false:false"/> <option name="uses" value="1"/> </attachment> <attachment name="triggerAttachmentE1giveall" attachTo="Hettangian:Sinemurian:Toarcian" javaClass="games.strategy.triplea.attachments.TriggerAttachment" type="player"> <option name="activateTrigger" value="triggerAttachmentHettangianE1grant:1:false:false:false:false"/> <option name="activateTrigger" value="triggerAttachmentSinemurianE1grant:1:false:false:false:false"/> <option name="activateTrigger" value="triggerAttachmentToarcianE1grant:1:false:false:false:false"/> <option name="uses" value="1"/> </attachment> <attachment name="conditionAttachmentHettangianE1grant" attachTo="Hettangian" javaClass="games.strategy.triplea.attachments.RulesAttachment" type="player"> <option name="directPresenceTerritories" value="HCapital" count="1"/> <option name="unitPresence" value="HEnest" count="1"/> </attachment> <attachment name="triggerAttachmentHettangianE1grant" attachTo="Hettangian" javaClass="games.strategy.triplea.attachments.TriggerAttachment" type="player"> <option name="conditions" value="conditionAttachmentHettangianE1grant"/> <option name="invert" value="true"/> <option name="frontier" value="productionHettangianE1"/> <option name="removeUnits" value="all:HEfeathers" count="9999"/> <option name="placement" value="HCapital:HEFeather" count="1"/> <option name="uses" value="1"/> </attachment>

To turn off all player feather clocks, the grant trigger can via [placement] a different HEGFeather unit to display instead of HEFeather used by the conditions, for example. Also, use that unit's presence instead of the next evolution (ie nests) to prevent de-evolving the player. This would be replicated for each player and evolution. Since these clock units are auto-placed by the triggers into capitals, one unit type for all should work. Thus, NoFeather (hidden, transparent) --> feather --> clockFeather --> hashavehadFeather.

Current plan is ordered evolutionary path, but 'granters' can check all evolutions and set production frontiers (or build up piecemeal by rules) via other conditions/triggers. This way future alliances can buy different evolutions, with maybe added clock delays to promote alliance inheritance first.

Good, Bad, Ugly?

@thedog said in Buying Tech as Units:

Adding the 10th or 11th+ player was not a chore any more.

This is why I pointed to you. I've learned a lot just by reading your xmls.

@gregorek said in Buying Tech as Units:

I chose the replacement path versus adding/removing rules.

If you still want to do it this way, then create a frontier for each evolution:

<productionFrontier name="production"> <frontierRules name="buytyrannosaurus"/> <frontierRules name="buystegosaurus"/> <frontierRules name="buytriceratops"/> <frontierRules name="buyankylosaurus"/> <frontierRules name="buycoelophysis"/> <frontierRules name="buyiguanodon"/> <frontierRules name="buypachycephalosaurus"/> <frontierRules name="buyornithomimus"/> <frontierRules name="buyplateosaurus"/> <frontierRules name="buyparasaurolophus"/> <frontierRules name="buypterodactylus"/> <frontierRules name="buysharovipteryx"/> <frontierRules name="buytylosaurus"/> <frontierRules name="buyliopleurodon"/> <frontierRules name="buydiplodocus"/> </productionFrontier> <productionFrontier name="feathersProduction"> <frontierRules name="buytyrannosaurus"/> <frontierRules name="buystegosaurus"/> <frontierRules name="buytriceratops"/> <frontierRules name="buyankylosaurus"/> <frontierRules name="buycoelophysis"/> <frontierRules name="buyiguanodon"/> <frontierRules name="buypachycephalosaurus"/> <frontierRules name="buyornithomimus"/> <frontierRules name="buyplateosaurus"/> <!-- <frontierRules name="buyparasaurolophus"/> Removed for feathers evolution --> <frontierRules name="buypterodactylusFeathered"/> <!-- added for feathers evolution --> <frontierRules name="buypterodactylus"/> <frontierRules name="buysharovipteryx"/> <frontierRules name="buytylosaurus"/> <frontierRules name="buyliopleurodon"/> <frontierRules name="buydiplodocus"/> </productionFrontier>

Now change the trigger to swap frontiers:

<attachment foreach="$GamePlayers$^$Evolutions$" name="triggerAttachment_@GamePlayers@_@Evolutions@" attachTo="Kimmeridgian" javaClass="TriggerAttachment" type="player"> <option name="conditions" value="conditionAttachment_@GamePlayers@_@Evolutions@"/> <!--Change to Evolutions frontier --> <option name="frontier" value="@Evolutions@Production"/> <!-- Removes Evolutions unit --> <option name="removeUnits" value="all:@Evolutions@" count="1"/> <!-- To be done after the place phase. Maybe? --> <option name="when" value="after:@GamePlayers@Place"/> <option name="uses" value="1"/> </attachment>

And there you go. You would still need GamePLayers and Evolutions but not AddUnit and RemoveUnit.

Cheers...

@wc_sumpton said in Buying Tech as Units:

How's it going? @TheDog is great at using variables and for each and this process is a good candidate.

It certainly is!.

My use of foreach all stemmed from Shogun Advanced politics, it started out with 8 players then expanded piecemeal to a final 15 players. Along the way I learnt how to use Foreach and cut thousands of line of code to hundreds. . Adding the 10th or 11th+ player was not a chore any more.

@GREGOREK

How's it going? @TheDog is great at using variables and for each and this process is a good candidate.

<variableList> <!-- This is a list of players minus Tithonian --> <variable name="GamePlayers"> <element name="Kimmeridgian"/> <element name="Oxfordian"/> <element name="Callovian"/> <element name="Bathonian"/> <element name="Bajocian"/> <element name="Aalenian"/> <element name="Toarcian"/> <element name="Pliensbachian"/> <element name="Sinemurian"/> <element name="Hettangian"/> </variable> <!-- A list of evolutions --> <variable name="Evolutions"> <element name="feathers"/> </variable> <!-- The unit effected by the above evolution --> <variable name="RemovedUnit"> <element name="pterodactylus"/> </variable> <!-- Unit created by the above evolution --> <variable name="AddedUnit"> <element name="pterodactylusFeathered"/> </variable> </variableList> <!-- This list is positioned above the <map> section --> <map> <!-- Territory Definitions --> <territory name="Da"/> <territory name="Db"/> <territory name="Dc"/> ... </map

Now some trigger ideas.

<!-- Check the whole map for evolutions by player --> <!-- $GamePlayers$ is the list of players --> <!-- $Evolutions$ is the list of evolutions --> <!-- The joining "^" create statements for each player and each evolution --> <!-- @GamePlayers@ and @Evolutions@ takes the next value from each list --> <attachment foreach="$GamePlayers$^$Evolutions$" name="conditionAttachment_@GamePlayers@_@Evolutions@" attachTo="@GamePlayers@" javaClass="RulesAttachment" type="player"> <option name="directPresenceTerritories" value="map" count="1"/> <option name="unitPresence" value="@Evolutions@" count="1"/> </attachment> <!-- The joining ":" create statements for each evolution with AddedUnit and RemovedUnit --> <!-- So, this will only work as long there is a one to one relationship between values in each list --> <attachment foreach="$GamePlayers$^$Evolutions$:$AddedUnit$:$RemovedUnit$" name="triggerAttachment_@GamePlayers@_@Evolutions@_@AddedUnit@" attachTo="Kimmeridgian" javaClass="TriggerAttachment" type="player"> <option name="conditions" value="conditionAttachment_@GamePlayers@_@Evolutions@"/> <!-- Adds AddedUnit to production --> <option name="productionRule" value="@GamePlayers@Production:buy@AddedUnit@"/> <!-- Removes RemovedUnit and Evolutions from production --> <option name="productionRule" value="@GamePlayers@Production:-buy@RemovedUnit@"/> <option name="productionRule" value="@GamePlayers@Production:-buy@Evolutions@"/> <!-- Removes Evolutions unit --> <option name="removeUnits" value="all:@Evolutions@" count="1"/> <!-- To be done after the place phase. Maybe? --> <option name="when" value="after:@GamePlayers@Place"/> <option name="uses" value="1"/> </attachment>

The above will create the following;

<attachment name="conditionAttachment_Kimmeridgian_feathers" attachTo="Kimmeridgian" javaClass="games.strategy.triplea.attachments.RulesAttachment" type="player"> <option name="directPresenceTerritories" value="1:map"/> <option name="unitPresence" value="1:feathers"/> </attachment> <attachment name="conditionAttachment_Oxfordian_feathers" attachTo="Oxfordian" javaClass="games.strategy.triplea.attachments.RulesAttachment" type="player"> <option name="directPresenceTerritories" value="1:map"/> <option name="unitPresence" value="1:feathers"/> </attachment> <attachment name="conditionAttachment_Callovian_feathers" attachTo="Callovian" javaClass="games.strategy.triplea.attachments.RulesAttachment" type="player"> <option name="directPresenceTerritories" value="1:map"/> <option name="unitPresence" value="1:feathers"/> </attachment> <attachment name="conditionAttachment_Bathonian_feathers" attachTo="Bathonian" javaClass="games.strategy.triplea.attachments.RulesAttachment" type="player"> <option name="directPresenceTerritories" value="1:map"/> <option name="unitPresence" value="1:feathers"/> </attachment> <attachment name="conditionAttachment_Bajocian_feathers" attachTo="Bajocian" javaClass="games.strategy.triplea.attachments.RulesAttachment" type="player"> <option name="directPresenceTerritories" value="1:map"/> <option name="unitPresence" value="1:feathers"/> </attachment> <attachment name="conditionAttachment_Aalenian_feathers" attachTo="Aalenian" javaClass="games.strategy.triplea.attachments.RulesAttachment" type="player"> <option name="directPresenceTerritories" value="1:map"/> <option name="unitPresence" value="1:feathers"/> </attachment> <attachment name="conditionAttachment_Toarcian_feathers" attachTo="Toarcian" javaClass="games.strategy.triplea.attachments.RulesAttachment" type="player"> <option name="directPresenceTerritories" value="1:map"/> <option name="unitPresence" value="1:feathers"/> </attachment> <attachment name="conditionAttachment_Pliensbachian_feathers" attachTo="Pliensbachian" javaClass="games.strategy.triplea.attachments.RulesAttachment" type="player"> <option name="directPresenceTerritories" value="1:map"/> <option name="unitPresence" value="1:feathers"/> </attachment> <attachment name="conditionAttachment_Sinemurian_feathers" attachTo="Sinemurian" javaClass="games.strategy.triplea.attachments.RulesAttachment" type="player"> <option name="directPresenceTerritories" value="1:map"/> <option name="unitPresence" value="1:feathers"/> </attachment> <attachment name="conditionAttachment_Hettangian_feathers" attachTo="Hettangian" javaClass="games.strategy.triplea.attachments.RulesAttachment" type="player"> <option name="directPresenceTerritories" value="1:map"/> <option name="unitPresence" value="1:feathers"/> </attachment> <attachment name="triggerAttachment_Kimmeridgian_feathers_pterodactylusFeathered" attachTo="Kimmeridgian" javaClass="games.strategy.triplea.attachments.TriggerAttachment" type="player"> <option name="conditions" value="conditionAttachment_Kimmeridgian_feathers"/> <option name="productionRule" value="KimmeridgianProduction:buypterodactylusFeathered"/> <option name="productionRule" value="KimmeridgianProduction:-buypterodactylus"/> <option name="productionRule" value="KimmeridgianProduction:-buyfeathers"/> <option name="removeUnits" value="1:all:feathers"/> <option name="when" value="after:KimmeridgianPlace"/> <option name="uses" value="1"/> </attachment> <attachment name="triggerAttachment_Oxfordian_feathers_pterodactylusFeathered" attachTo="Kimmeridgian" javaClass="games.strategy.triplea.attachments.TriggerAttachment" type="player"> <option name="conditions" value="conditionAttachment_Oxfordian_feathers"/> <option name="productionRule" value="OxfordianProduction:buypterodactylusFeathered"/> <option name="productionRule" value="OxfordianProduction:-buypterodactylus"/> <option name="productionRule" value="OxfordianProduction:-buyfeathers"/> <option name="removeUnits" value="1:all:feathers"/> <option name="when" value="after:OxfordianPlace"/> <option name="uses" value="1"/> </attachment> <attachment name="triggerAttachment_Callovian_feathers_pterodactylusFeathered" attachTo="Kimmeridgian" javaClass="games.strategy.triplea.attachments.TriggerAttachment" type="player"> <option name="conditions" value="conditionAttachment_Callovian_feathers"/> <option name="productionRule" value="CallovianProduction:buypterodactylusFeathered"/> <option name="productionRule" value="CallovianProduction:-buypterodactylus"/> <option name="productionRule" value="CallovianProduction:-buyfeathers"/> <option name="removeUnits" value="1:all:feathers"/> <option name="when" value="after:CallovianPlace"/> <option name="uses" value="1"/> </attachment> <attachment name="triggerAttachment_Bathonian_feathers_pterodactylusFeathered" attachTo="Kimmeridgian" javaClass="games.strategy.triplea.attachments.TriggerAttachment" type="player"> <option name="conditions" value="conditionAttachment_Bathonian_feathers"/> <option name="productionRule" value="BathonianProduction:buypterodactylusFeathered"/> <option name="productionRule" value="BathonianProduction:-buypterodactylus"/> <option name="productionRule" value="BathonianProduction:-buyfeathers"/> <option name="removeUnits" value="1:all:feathers"/> <option name="when" value="after:BathonianPlace"/> <option name="uses" value="1"/> </attachment> <attachment name="triggerAttachment_Bajocian_feathers_pterodactylusFeathered" attachTo="Kimmeridgian" javaClass="games.strategy.triplea.attachments.TriggerAttachment" type="player"> <option name="conditions" value="conditionAttachment_Bajocian_feathers"/> <option name="productionRule" value="BajocianProduction:buypterodactylusFeathered"/> <option name="productionRule" value="BajocianProduction:-buypterodactylus"/> <option name="productionRule" value="BajocianProduction:-buyfeathers"/> <option name="removeUnits" value="1:all:feathers"/> <option name="when" value="after:BajocianPlace"/> <option name="uses" value="1"/> </attachment> <attachment name="triggerAttachment_Aalenian_feathers_pterodactylusFeathered" attachTo="Kimmeridgian" javaClass="games.strategy.triplea.attachments.TriggerAttachment" type="player"> <option name="conditions" value="conditionAttachment_Aalenian_feathers"/> <option name="productionRule" value="AalenianProduction:buypterodactylusFeathered"/> <option name="productionRule" value="AalenianProduction:-buypterodactylus"/> <option name="productionRule" value="AalenianProduction:-buyfeathers"/> <option name="removeUnits" value="1:all:feathers"/> <option name="when" value="after:AalenianPlace"/> <option name="uses" value="1"/> </attachment> <attachment name="triggerAttachment_Toarcian_feathers_pterodactylusFeathered" attachTo="Kimmeridgian" javaClass="games.strategy.triplea.attachments.TriggerAttachment" type="player"> <option name="conditions" value="conditionAttachment_Toarcian_feathers"/> <option name="productionRule" value="ToarcianProduction:buypterodactylusFeathered"/> <option name="productionRule" value="ToarcianProduction:-buypterodactylus"/> <option name="productionRule" value="ToarcianProduction:-buyfeathers"/> <option name="removeUnits" value="1:all:feathers"/> <option name="when" value="after:ToarcianPlace"/> <option name="uses" value="1"/> </attachment> <attachment name="triggerAttachment_Pliensbachian_feathers_pterodactylusFeathered" attachTo="Kimmeridgian" javaClass="games.strategy.triplea.attachments.TriggerAttachment" type="player"> <option name="conditions" value="conditionAttachment_Pliensbachian_feathers"/> <option name="productionRule" value="PliensbachianProduction:buypterodactylusFeathered"/> <option name="productionRule" value="PliensbachianProduction:-buypterodactylus"/> <option name="productionRule" value="PliensbachianProduction:-buyfeathers"/> <option name="removeUnits" value="1:all:feathers"/> <option name="when" value="after:PliensbachianPlace"/> <option name="uses" value="1"/> </attachment> <attachment name="triggerAttachment_Sinemurian_feathers_pterodactylusFeathered" attachTo="Kimmeridgian" javaClass="games.strategy.triplea.attachments.TriggerAttachment" type="player"> <option name="conditions" value="conditionAttachment_Sinemurian_feathers"/> <option name="productionRule" value="SinemurianProduction:buypterodactylusFeathered"/> <option name="productionRule" value="SinemurianProduction:-buypterodactylus"/> <option name="productionRule" value="SinemurianProduction:-buyfeathers"/> <option name="removeUnits" value="1:all:feathers"/> <option name="when" value="after:SinemurianPlace"/> <option name="uses" value="1"/> </attachment> <attachment name="triggerAttachment_Hettangian_feathers_pterodactylusFeathered" attachTo="Kimmeridgian" javaClass="games.strategy.triplea.attachments.TriggerAttachment" type="player"> <option name="conditions" value="conditionAttachment_Hettangian_feathers"/> <option name="productionRule" value="HettangianProduction:buypterodactylusFeathered"/> <option name="productionRule" value="HettangianProduction:-buypterodactylus"/> <option name="productionRule" value="HettangianProduction:-buyfeathers"/> <option name="removeUnits" value="1:all:feathers"/> <option name="when" value="after:HettangianPlace"/> <option name="uses" value="1"/> </attachment>

To add another Evolution, "spike_tail" for ankylosaurus to create ankylosaurusSpikedTail, spike_tail would be added to Evolutions and ankylosaurus added to RemovedUnit and ankylosaurusSpikedTail to AddUnit.
Of course, "spike_tail" and ankylosaurusSpikedTail would need to be added to units, production and attachments.

Hope this is helpful.

Cheers...

P.S. foreach can only be used in the <attachmentList> section. In "mega_new_elk" I use foreach to create the territoryAttachment. This can also be done with unitAttachment and Evolutions.

<attachment foreach="$Evolutions$" name="unitAttachment" attachTo="@Evolutions@" javaClass="UnitAttachment" type="unitType"> <option name="maxBuiltPerPlayer" value="1"/> </attachment>

Cheers...