@Cernel said in Pie in the sky idea:

Of course, A&A rules refer only to transports, as being the only attack 0 units. So, you could say it would not apply to attack 0 land units (if they would exist),

Attack zero units exist, for example, in LotR. Hobbits are 0/1, supportable. Shooters are 0/2, giving support. You can send them into battle by themselves, although I don't know what happens if they alone remain.

its yet another interesting possible "function" these real time strategy games could have! A variable turn order would be even more relative and generic and clearly not a historical theme/setting that this games maps and mods are about. I think you still have a good idea for an interesting and challenging type of mod so I made a post.

My only idea so far for this game was a "learning ai" based on any map where past game moves are recorded and the ai refers to a "number of times capitol captured" file per faction to help it decide on direction of attack type of idea. I could then even add another "number of times territory captured" file and then use a percent chance for the ai factions using the higher statistic to choose which territories and capitols to attack etc. etc. .

Interesting you brought up this topic since redrum and the ai devs use a "variable/random" ai when deciding purchases (which also uses a percentage factor which I believe is based on cost efficiency)!

@Skoreus2004 Ah, ok, so it is a usability thing, rather than an additional feature request. Some tips:

. You know that you can define the "Scroll Zone Size" via Engine Preferences/Map Scrolling?

. You can scroll with Arrows keys.

. You can scroll with the mouse wheel; also that of a traditional mouse, by keeping Shift pressed.

So, if I understand correctly that this would be a suggestion to increase the default value of "Scroll Zone Size", you can try it a bit and tell what is your suggested value.

@Frostion

An alternate method involves using bidPlace delegates. If you want to place one sea unit per player turn in a turn order. You will need to place the multiple delegates before the regular sequence begins. The trick here would be to trigger one sea unit to place (during the bidPlace) and additionally trigger an invisible sea unit (owned by nation whos turn it is) into every available sea zone during the bidPlace and remove all of them after the bidPlace. This will allow you to place sea units in sea zones that look empty or unowned.

But if you actually require ownership of the seazones to be changed, you need to trigger them as well. Or try assigning each seazone and attachment before hand that has ownership assigned, and see what happens. But I think triggers would still be required here. Maybe try adding production=0 to seazones too, then it should switch ownerships.

@General_Zod Primarily what Frostion laid out here: https://forums.triplea-game.org/topic/1064/expand-randomstartdelegate-to-also-include-sea-units-and-sea-territories

@Frostion Sorry, "alpha" was changed to "saturation" due to a limitation. So you'll want this:

smallMap.territory.saturation=0.1

@redrum
Just having fun thoughts. Thanks for your explanation!

Cheers...

@redrum thank you

@redrum If you think it can be good to go the way of just manually changing the games for the not very popular options (maybe all of them but only the "isAA", I'd like), and are fine taking a modest chance of bugging some game (I'm not going to playtest them all fully), I can do all the changing part, as long as the matter goes at a good pace (I don't want to be stuck with a lot of pull requests for long), preferably doing it and closing this same month, if possible? I guess I'll have to leave TWW to @Hepps to change, if going this way, or he can review.

A minor notice is that option also sets the stack limit for games like Classic. Of course, that would stay in the unit attachments. So, you would end up with an option that creates two different things, if it is Classic rules (I guess it should be fine).

@cernel said in Axis & Allies & Zombies & TripleA:

@hepps said in Axis & Allies & Zombies & TripleA:

@rogercooper What is a unitKill trigger?

I thing @RogerCooper might be misunderstanding the rules, if not the way triggers work. My best guess is that he means adding zombies with triggers for as much dudes were killed in combat in a territory. However, this is not the way it works. The way it works is that the dead rise at the end of each combat round (while triggers fire only before or after phases), so the best way to do this, in my opinion would be expanding the option that changes a unit into another one when damaged to support also:

Changing the unit to another one when the unit reaches 0 hitpoints.

Defining a new owner for the new unit.

I understand the AAZ rules. I don't think that the engine changes required for full support of zombies would be made, but it could be approximated with smaller changes.

@odor Need to also consider PBEM/PBF which are played offline.

As of pre-release 1.9.0.0.12435, the Find Territory command should work as expected when Lock Map is enabled.

The feature would have put a left/right arrow on the screen with a count of how many unused units there were. Hotkeys would have been mapped to these, and hitting space bar would proceed to the next one. So you could scroll through all units and then 'skip' a unit you do not want to move.

There was a bug with the hotkey system where the main window would lose the listener and the hotkeys would stop working until the map was clicked. That delayed/broke the feature, so I've some old code in a branch hanging out for this but it'll take some time to revive that and to fix the hotkey problem (which was our oldest open bug tracked in github).

Other TripleA priorities are more pressing, I don't rightly know when I'll get back to this, but I would like to.

@hepps Who is Neil Diamond?

Anyways, here is the PR: https://github.com/triplea-game/triplea/pull/4140

This has no impact on existing maps that don't use the new parameters. But allows maps to require airbase for interception just like scrambling. It also allows specifying the max number each airbase can send to intercept (default is infinite).

I tested it by editing TWW to have fighters require airfields to intercept and have a limit of 1. Here is the XML examples:

Airfield

<attachment name="unitAttachment" attachTo="britishAirfield" javaClass="games.strategy.triplea.attachments.UnitAttachment" type="unitType"> <option name="isAirBase" value="true"/> <option name="maxInterceptCount" value="1"/>

Fighter

<attachment name="unitAttachment" attachTo="britishFighter" javaClass="games.strategy.triplea.attachments.UnitAttachment" type="unitType"> <option name="canIntercept" value="true"/> <option name="requiresAirbaseToIntercept" value="true"/>

Here is an example of what I was proposing...

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Looking to update this further so the resource icons are displayed instead of the text. Example:
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Yeah, the whole "each" functionality is pretty funky. I'd like to implement some sort of variable/tag/etc system where you can define essentially a list of values at least to start. I think probably units, territories, and numerical lists would be the ones most useful. Something like:

<variable name="landUnits" value="infantry:artillery:tank"/> <variable name="capitals" value="moscow:berlin:london:toyko:washington"/> <variable name="every5" value="5x[0-100]"/>