Question about trenches domination 1914 no mans land

wc_sumpton

@Ramon said:

Is disallowing the flying boats to attack and land on land altogether relatively easy? If so how can this be done?

Using "unitsNotAllowed" in territoryEffect.

Cheers...

VictoryFirst

@Ramon I think the best way to do this is to add a territoryEffect called "Land", add the territory effect to every land territory in the game, then create a territoryEffectAttachment for "Land" with the option "unitsNotAllowed", as WC said above.

First specify this after relationshipTypes and before gamePlay

<territoryEffectList>
    <territoryEffect name="Land"/>
</territoryEffectList>

Then add this to every territoryAttachment of land territories. You can probably use AI to speed up this process.

<attachment name="territoryAttachment" attachTo="Albania" javaClass="games.strategy.triplea.attachments.TerritoryAttachment" type="territory">
    ...
    <option name="territoryEffect" value="Land"/>
    ...
</attachment>

Lastly, add this:

<attachment name="territoryEffectAttachment" attachTo="Land" javaClass="TerritoryEffectAttachment" type="territoryEffect">
      <option name="unitsNotAllowed" value="FlyingBoat"/>
</attachment>

beelee

@VictoryFirst said:

<property name="Movement By Territory Restricted" value="true" editable="false">
<boolean/>
</property>

there it is. I knew I'd remember if I just saw it again lol.

Good luck Ramon. You have the A Team helping you. If those guys can't figure it out, then it can't be done.

Then they will have to make engine changes

beelee

@VictoryFirst said:

<property name="Movement By Territory Restricted" value="true" editable="false">
<boolean/>
</property>

there it is. I knew I'd remember if I just saw it again lol.

Good luck Ramon. You have the A Team helping you. If those guys can't figure it out, then it can't be done.

Then they will have to make engine changes

wc_sumpton

@Ramon said:

Is it possible to give the player a choice? either buy 6 dice or dont buy any?

Create it as a purchasable item:

    <productionRule name="buyTechTokens">
      <cost resource="PUs" quantity="20"/>
      <result resourceOrUnit="techTokens" quantity="6"/>
    </productionRule>

and add to the production of each player. The triggers are not needed when doing this.
"userActions" can be used:

    <attachment name="userActionAttachment_Japanese_Purchase_6TT" attachTo="Japanese" javaClass="UserActionAttachment" type="player">
      <option name="conditions" value="conditionAttachment_Is_Japanese_Not_AI"/>
      <option name="activateTrigger" value="triggerAttachment_Give_Japanese_6_techTokens"/>
      <option name="activateTrigger" value="triggerAttachment_Take_20_PUs_From_Japanese"/>
      <option name="text" value="Japanese_6TT"/>
      <option name="attemptsPerTurn" value="1"/>
    </attachment>

Then the actionstext.properties:

Japanese_6TT.BUTTON=[Purchase]
Japanese_6TT.DESCRIPTION=Purchase 6 techTokens for 20 PUs.
Japanese_6TT.NOTIFICATION_SUCCESS=You have purchased 6 techTokens for 20 PUs.
Japanese_6TT.OTHER_NOTIFICATION_SUCCESS=The Japanese have purchased 6 techTokens for 20 PUs.

There are 2 problems with this approach. The AI does not use "userActions". This can be checked by using "isAI":

    <attachment name="conditionAttachment_Is_Japanese_AI" attachTo="Japanese" javaClass="RulesAttachment" type="player">
      <option name="isAI" value="true"/>
    </attachment>
    <attachment name="conditionAttachment_Is_Japanese_Not_AI" attachTo="Japanese" javaClass="RulesAttachment" type="player">
      <option name="conditions" value="conditionAttachment_Is_Japanese_AI"/>
      <option name="invert" value="true"/>
    </attachment>
     <attachment name="triggerAttachment_Japanese_Purchase_6TT" attachTo="Japanese" javaClass="TriggerAttachment" type="player"> 
		<option name="conditions" value="conditionAttachment_Is_Japanese_AI"/>
		<option name="chance" value="3:6"/>
		<option name="chanceIncrementOnFailure" value="1"/>
		<option name="chanceDecrementOnSuccess" value="1"/>
		<option name="notification" value="Japanese_6TT"/>
		<option name="when" value="before:JapaneseTech"/>
		<option name="players" value="@All-Players@"/>
      <option name="activateTrigger" value="triggerAttachment_Give_Japanese_6_techTokens"/>
      <option name="activateTrigger" value="triggerAttachment_Take_20_PUs_From_Japanese"/>
	</attachment>

The other problem is there is no way to test if Japanese have the 20PUs, they will always be able to purchase the 6 techTokens.

Cheers...

Ramon

@VictoryFirst

Hi Victory!

Thanks a lot for the suggestion! It works perfectly!

Cheers!

Ramon

@beelee

They are indeed the best! I greatly appreciate all the help from you guys!

Cheers!

Ramon

@wc_sumpton

Thanks a lot for your response!

So if i understand correctly with this trigger there is no way for the engine to check if the Japanese have 20PU's?

Meaning they can always buy tech?

Cheers!

wc_sumpton

@Ramon said:

So if i understand correctly with this trigger there is no way for the engine to check if the Japanese have 20PU's?

Meaning they can always buy tech?

Yes

Cheers...

Ramon

@wc_sumpton

Is it possible to give tech a dice of 4 instead of 6?

VictoryFirst

@Ramon I believe by default tech dice use the dice sides specified on the top of the XML (by default 6). So if you want to give tech a dice of 4, you'd be changing the dice sides that regular combat units use as well.

If you want tech to be rolled with 4 dice sides and the other rolls with 6 dice sides, I think theoretically it would possible, but would it would be insanely complicated and require the use of a user action phase with a lot of nested triggers/conditions.

Also, some of the stuff you want to implement that is currently not possible can be made possible by making changes to the engine. So if you'd like to see this happen, feel free to post a feature request here: https://github.com/triplea-game/triplea/issues
(click on "New Issue" and select the top option "Feature Request")