Gold carry-over

[turin]

Is there any (relatively simple) way to leave the player with 100% of his left-over gold from scenario to scenario, rather than the current 80%? The 20% tax makes sense for most scenarios, but on, for example, side-quests, it really makes no sense. You should keep all of your original gold.

I know that I COULD just add back the missing gold at the start of the next scenario, but then the previous scenario ends up deceiving the player as to how much gold they have. And I COULD make the scenario end with a continue rather than a victory, but that doesn't make sense, since they wom the scenario.

Any ideas? I personally think it would be a good idea to have an additional tax= attribute in the endlevel tag... so you would just say

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[endlevel]
    result=victory
    bonus=yes
    tax=0
[/endlevel]

The default would be 20.

[Aethaeryn]

I agree with this. On some scenarios, which are in essence just a continue of the previous scenario where you don't even recruit anyone else, it makes sense to carry over gold. For instance, your units carry over on each of the last two scenarios in Scepter of Fire. Why can't your gold?

This could allow some challenging campaigns - where you're in the "wilderness" between forts/cities/camps and you must go several scenarios with just your army and gold as it gradually wears away.

On the other side, there should be some maps where you start with 0 gold regardless of what you have had before for the same reason - more freedom in a UMC. Would it be hard? Yes, but I'd hope that the campaign developer would take that into account and have some way to get gold. It could make some sense story-wise - you just got robbed or captured (e.g. EI's level Captured).

[DDR]

Can you store gold in a variable, and set the gold next scenario from that variable?

[Weeksy]

a temporary hack would be to multiply gold by 1.25 before you trigger victory...

[turin]

a temporary hack would be to multiply gold by 1.25 before you trigger victory...

I guess that'd work. Of course, the way it's presented to the user is still far from ideal...

[Weeksy]

claim it's the gold the enemy leader had. Makes some sense that they would have a bit of gold in their keeping...

[SkeletonCrew]

I think this is a good idea, I only rather have a carry_over% instead of tax%, this would also allow to give more than 100% as a bonus.

Maybe also allow 100% as percentage and 100 as absolute amount?

[zookeeper]

Yes, it would be great to have these carryover things available in the [endlevel] tag if you wanted to specify them yourself. Most parts of the game are already rather customizable either directly or through WML hacks, but this ancient hard-coded monster still lives.

[Clonkinator]

I like this idea. I'd like to see this being made possible in the future.

[tsr]

Well, I do second the proposal of the scenario writer to be able decide the percentage in [endlevel] but for turins original request there is:

result=continue

Of course, you don't get the nice(?) dialog telling you how much gold you keep, but it let's you keep 100% of it

/tsr

[tr0ll]

Maybe the amount of gold carryover can be adjusted based on the campaign challenge level. For example to ensure that Hard (a level the player chose, after all) is actually challenging to play, you could set all scenarios starting gold to minimum. Alternatively, improve the enemies commensurate with the amount of carryover. This could be justified in-game with dialogue about higher payments to the crown or with increasing enmity based on your wealth, respectively.

[SkeletonCrew]

Zookeeper filed a FR [1] and I hope to implement it rather soon.

[1] https://gna.org/bugs/index.php?10144