combined condition attachment for triggers

Numetalfan

so this trigger works, yet it removes excatly 1 unit and replaces it by excatly 1 unit of the other type

I want this one to work any time, so 5 bigdestroyers will be replaced by 5 destroyer,
3 by 3 and so on

count="1-+"

does not work

Any help?

beelee

@numetalfan to remove them you can use "all".

Unfortunately that doesn't really help, as it doesn't know how many to place. The only way I know of, is to make a different condition/trigger for the number of units.

You don't wanna go too huge or it'll slow the game down. At least it seemed like it to me. But you could try 3 or 5 and then use edit for anything more.

Numetalfan

@beelee

thx. So did I, but now the programm is doing stupid things:

If Germany buy one submarine and places that in SZ5,

there is a condition
<attachment name="conditionAttachmentSubGSZ5" attachTo="Germans" javaClass="games.strategy.triplea.attachments.RulesAttachment" type="player">
<option name="directPresenceTerritories" value="5 Sea Zone"/>
<option name="players" value="Germans:Italians:Japanese"/>
<option name="unitPresence" value="submarine" count= "1"/>
</attachment>

and a trigger

this one works well, the exchange works

Numetalfan

oops wrong trigger

Numetalfan

but if Germany buys 2 subs

there are 2 conditions - one for 1 sub and one for 2 subs

and 2 triggers

but instead of using the second trigger, the programming is using both

G2subSZ75ET: has removed 2 submarines owned by Germans in 75 Sea Zone
G2subSZ75ET: Germans has 2 submarine_in_sub_bunkers placed in 75 Sea Zone
GsubSZ75ET: Germans has 1 submarine_in_sub_bunker placed in 75 Sea Zone

So: buying 2 subs, means 1+2 = 3 converted units
buying 3 subs, means 1+2+3 = 6 converted untis

how to avoid that ?

wc_sumpton

@Numetalfan

'count' when used in a conditionAttachment means equal to or greater then. So both statements are true if "5 Sea Zone" has 2 German subs. The triggerAttachment does not check the 'count' when using removeUnits. So if 1 unit is there and you remove 2, it will remove the 1 with out any errors.

To insure that only 1 or 2 units are removed you must check for the presents of just 1 unit. So use a condition that inverts the check for 2 and if true then there must be less then 2 units:

<attachment name="conditionAttachmentNo2SubGSZ5" attachTo="Germans" javaClass="games.strategy.triplea.attachments.RulesAttachment" type="player">
   <option name="conditions" value="conditionAttachment2SubGSZ5"/>
   <option name="players" value="Germans:Italians:Japanese"/>
   <option name="invert" value="true"/>
</attachment>

Then add that condition to the deployment of 1 subermarine_in_sub_bunker trigger.

Cheers...

Numetalfan

@wc_sumpton

so if you have 3 positive conditions

if1,if2,if3

and 3 negative one (with invert)

ifnot1,ifnot2,ifnot3

then the triggers would be:

triggerconvert1
...if1:ifnot2:ifnot3

triggerconvert2
...if2:ifnot1:ifnot3

triggerconvert3
...if3:ifnot1:ifnot2

is that the logic for the xml ?
the ":" works as "AND" in this case

wc_sumpton

@Numetalfan

When testing with count the test is for x or more. So if an zone contains 2 units, testing for 1 unit is true, testing for 2 units is true, but testing for 3 units is false. So to test for an exact number of units there needs to be another check. ie: Are there 2 or more units, and less then 3 units?

So to test for up to 3 units:
1 or more and less then 2
2 or more and less then 3
3 or more

Less then 1 testing is not needed. Also testing for less then three when test for 1.

Numetalfan

@wc_sumpton

thx,

I understand your idea,

however "count =" is neither <= nor >=

so = 2 would count 2, but it could be 3 or 4 there.

So how to define "2 or less" or "3 and more"

wc_sumpton

@Numetalfan

Wrong. "count"="2" is 2 or more. This only means assign the number "2" to the variable "count".

When used in conditionAttachment with "requiresUnit" then if there are 2 or more units in the zone, the statement is true.

When used in a triggerAttachment with "removesUnit" then it means remove no more then 2 units, but if there are less units that is ok, even if there are no units to remove.

It may look exact "count=2" but it is not. "count" is just variable. Like "count"="false".

Cheers...

wc_sumpton

@Numetalfan

Maybe I miss understood your question. You know how to "count" for "2". You want to know how to "count" for less then "3".

Simple, use an invert condition on the "count" for "3":

<!-- Counting for 3 or more German subs in 5 Sea Zone -->
<attachment name="conditionAttachment3SubGSZ5" attachTo="Germans" javaClass="games.strategy.triplea.attachments.RulesAttachment" type="player">
   <option name="directPresenceTerritories" value="5 Sea Zone"/>
   <option name="players" value="Germans:Italians:Japanese"/>
   <option name="unitPresence" value="submarine" count= "3"/>
</attachment>
<!-- Counting for less the 3 (0,1 or 2) German Subs in 5 Sea Zone -->
<attachment name="conditionAttachmentNo3SubGSZ5" attachTo="Germans" javaClass="games.strategy.triplea.attachments.RulesAttachment" type="player">
   <option name="conditions" value="conditionAttachment3SubGSZ5"/>
   <option name="players" value="Germans:Italians:Japanese"/>
   <option name="invert" value="true"/>
</attachment>

So if there are 3 German subs in '5 Sea Zone' then "conditionAttachment3SubGSZ5" will be true and "conditionAttachmentNo3SubGSZ5" will be false. If there are less then 3 subs then "conditionAttachment3SubGSZ5" is false witch will make "conditionAttachmentNo3SubGSZ5" true.

Cheers...

beelee

This isn't exactly what you're doing but just to add another example:

So as long as there are less than 3 German Uboat Units in SZ 112, it will remove 1 Wolfpack Unit in SZ 112

wc_sumpton

@beelee

Correct. If there are 0, 1 or 2 'GermanUBoats' then it will attempt to remove 1 Wolfpack. This will be true even with 0 'GermanUBoats'.

Cheers...

beelee

@wc_sumpton heh heh you're the one that clued me in on it when I was struggling