Team change during game

Post by **Quietus** » February 22nd, 2008, 7:33 pm

I checked the FPI and the first 10 pages of the ideas(well flicked over) and didnt see this so i thought i'd give it a shot, please lock if it already has been suggested.

IDEA: To be able to change your team alignment during game. i.e. if you wish the game to last longer, you could change your team alignment so that you can attack your ex-allied factions.

E.g. Loyalists (me) + drakes on team 1 vs. team 2 and team 3. Team 2 and 3 have pretty much been defeated. The option would alloy me to leave Team 1 and attack the Drakes. Basically leaving the team and forming an individual team of myself.

This may be completely impractical, but i thought i might bring it up just because it struck me whilst playing previous games, that my ally tends to steal my keep whilst im out, and i have about a 3 turn treck to reach his base. Had i been able to attack him, i could have saved the time and got some EXP in the process

Thanks for reading

Post by **zookeeper** » February 22nd, 2008, 7:55 pm

Can be done with WML. I've actually planned on implementing a proper engine for handling diplomacy in WML (of course including alliance switching), just haven't gotten around to it yet.

We wouldn't want this to be a standard mainline feature for various reasons.

CarpeGuitarrem · Post by **CarpeGuitarrem** » February 23rd, 2008, 4:50 pm

The glaring problem with this is that games could devolve into a tag-team-fest. Say you have Red and Blue. Player 1 and 2 on Red, Player 3 and 4 on Blue. Player 3 joins Red, and all three sides pummel it into submission. Then what? They all maneuver until one thinks they're in position to take out the other two. And then they switch. And fight until it's 2 players left. Followed by a duel to the death.

So I suppose maybe it wouldn't be too bad, the only part I don't like is the initial tag-team.

Post by **Quietus** » February 23rd, 2008, 6:31 pm

Well there's always the age of empires approach. Even if you have change your diplomacy so that another team is you ally, that doesnt mean they have changed so that you're theirs. In multiplayer it would be different, because players could agree to change.

If thats a real problem, just eliminate the tag team altogether. If you change team, then you have no team, and its a stand alone map.

Caeb · Post by **Caeb** » February 24th, 2008, 12:23 am

already implemented in one of appleide's maps from an earlier 1.3 version, I think...

ahh, here it is: http://www.wesnoth.org/forum/viewtopic. ... highlight=

cool evil · Post by **cool evil** » February 27th, 2008, 11:29 pm

How about this? In multiplayer, every team starts off as a free indepedent force, throughout the game they can form alliances and so on, to prevent people teaming unfairly, we could have a rule saying that no alliances could over a specific number of forces.

Post by **turin** » February 28th, 2008, 12:53 am

Just play a FFA and agree not to attack the person you're "allied" with.... why do you need a formal alliance?

Darker_Dreams · Post by **Darker_Dreams** » February 28th, 2008, 1:10 am

turin wrote:Just play a FFA and agree not to attack the person you're "allied" with.... why do you need a formal alliance?

shared view?

Aethaeryn (User Page) · Post by **Aethaeryn** » February 28th, 2008, 1:18 am

I prefer non-formal alliances in FFAs. More likely to have a backstabber, or pile up on the few shared fronts to cause tensions. And no shared victory!

krotop · Post by **krotop** » February 28th, 2008, 8:50 am

Darker_Dreams wrote:
turin wrote:Just play a FFA and agree not to attack the person you're "allied" with.... why do you need a formal alliance?
shared view?

and ZoC, and teamchat.

Weeksy · Post by **Weeksy** » February 28th, 2008, 10:40 am

A gold cost to change teams (25% of your gold, 30 gold minimum, as a suggestion) would help too much rechanging of teams.

Post by **megane** » February 28th, 2008, 11:14 am

It could just be a game option, off by default: "allow team changes."

Post by **zookeeper** » February 28th, 2008, 11:36 am

The possible diplomacy engine I've thought about would probably work like this: you can make offers to other players during your turn. They can accept, decline or stall during their turn. So diplomacy wouldn't be instantaneous; if you'd want to ally with one of your enemies, you'd have to send him a request for alliance, and then when his turn arrives he could accept or decline it. Also, taking in a new member into an existing team of more than one side would require everyone in that team to accept the new member, and expelling a member would likewise require everyone but the expelled to agree. You could attach at least one condition to a proposal, for example you could ask for an alliance and if the enemy accepts, they'd also get one of your units. Or you could offer a unit of yours to an ally on the condition that he pays you x gold for it.

Of course you also couldn't make conflicting proposals, like asking for an alliance with several enemy teams at the same time.

It might be good if the proposals were public (visible to everyone, not just the parties involved), so the other players see if someone is for instance just spamming everyone they can with similar proposals. Maybe you could make a proposal secret by paying a bit for it.

Vendanna · Post by **Vendanna** » February 28th, 2008, 1:52 pm

zookeeper wrote:... Or you could offer a unit of yours to an ally on the condition that he pays you x gold for it...

A question about that one, to offer an unit... it should haven't moved/attacked? because imagine this case.

Opponent has dark adept, you have a melee unit.

Melee unit doesn't managed to kill the DA, you offer your unit to your "friend" after the attack is done, so he has a second chance to off the dark adept before you lost the unit to its damage.

Post by AI » February 28th, 2008, 2:14 pm

If, in a scenario, a unit changes sides, it retains whatever MP it had left, which only get refreshed on turnchange. So no, that wouldn't work.