offset round="0"

[beelee]

from POS2 "offset is used by the xml exporter to have a game begin in a round other than round 1"

Not real familiar with this. Is there anyway to use this as a "map option" or is it only for the xml export that would then hardwire it into a different xml ?

Thanks

[Cernel]

@beelee From discussions I had with Veqryn, I believe this item exists soley for tracking the round of the game when creating a game file out of a game in progress (using the "Export game.xml File (Beta)" function). Since then, at least @Frostion used this item in its Age of Tribes map to create late-game scenarios feigning the game has been played up to this point (for example, the first round of "Age of Tribes: Cold War" is 66), but I recall Veqryn was not approving of such usage.

[beelee]

@cernel right on thanks. I'll look at what Frostion did

[LaFayette]

The round offset should affect the starting round. Here is the code involved:

  private int round = 1;
  private int roundOffset = 0;

  public int getRound() {
    return round + roundOffset;
  }

A round offset of 9 would imply the game starts at round '10' instead of round '1'.

I'm not sure how overall that would be useful. Though, there could be some non-obvious uses for game export as mentioned that I'm not aware of.

[beelee]

@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