Change unit price for one side

[Lorbi]

I wonder if that is possible in WML
I want that side X can recruit unitY for a gold instead of the nornmal price of b gold

is this possible anyway ? any ideas ?

[turin]

Unfortunately, it's not. Unit cost is not manipulable... this is one feature that would be really useful, though.

[zookeeper]

Nope, not possible. You'd need to create a custom version of the unit and give it a different cost.

[Lorbi]

ok .. thx for the hint

[Iris]

Nope, not possible. You'd need to create a custom version of the unit and give it a different cost.

Done in Under the Burning Suns campaign. You can take its WML as example.

[turin]

It's only "done" in UTBS by duplicating the entire WML of each unit for each price desired. It's a horrible way to do it and shouldn't be replicated unless absolutely necessary.

[CIB]

I wonder why this feature doesn't exist.. You even can make your own right-click options with WML, but you can't change the costs of a unit?

[elricz]

It's only "done" in UTBS by duplicating the entire WML of each unit for each price desired. It's a horrible way to do it and shouldn't be replicated unless absolutely necessary.

Looking at the .cfg files it doesn't look that bad:

#define DESERT_ARCHER NUM COST HIDEORNOT
...
id=Desert Archer{NUM}
hide_help={HIDEORNOT}
...
cost={COST}
...
[/unit]
#enddef

{DESERT_ARCHER "" 17 false}
{DESERT_ARCHER 2 18 true}
{DESERT_ARCHER 3 19 true}
{DESERT_ARCHER 4 20 true}
{DESERT_ARCHER 5 21 true}
{DESERT_ARCHER 6 22 true}
{DESERT_ARCHER 7 23 true}
{DESERT_ARCHER 8 24 true}
{DESERT_ARCHER 9 25 true}
{DESERT_ARCHER 10 26 true}
{DESERT_ARCHER 11 27 true}

[CIB]

You know, each of these macros gets substituted by like 200 lines o.o
(+this won't work in multiplayer, +it would not work dynamically(except by creating a unit for each possible cost))

[elricz]

You know, each of these macros gets substituted by like 200 lines o.o

Ok, I see, it just didn't looked that horrible to write it

[Drumbeat]

How about an event that fires on recruitment and just adds gold back to the player's treasury? I think you would have to disable undo or write an event to decrease the player's gold when undoing a recruit action.

[CIB]

That's even worse than in UtbS =)

[Drumbeat]

That's even worse than in UtbS =)

It has the sole advantage of using fewer lines of code than an entire unit description. But, yes. It's ugly at best.

[Rhuvaen]

For an AI side, that would be an adequate solution. It's only the human player that will complain about the discrepancy of displayed price and special discount.

[zookeeper]

For an AI side, that would be an adequate solution. It's only the human player that will complain about the discrepancy of displayed price and special discount.

...not to mention the inability to recruit the unit if you have enough gold for the actual lowered cost but not for the original.