I need to get a list of all sides not allied to the player

[Kapoue_II]

For my era, I have a bunch of slaves. Like in DiD, I'm going to give each slave a 1-50 chance of rebelling each turn. For this , I need an extra side........... but because its for an entire era, not a scenario, I can't just have a spare side kicking around, because I don't know how many sides the scenario will have. Is there a way around this?

[Anonymissimus]

At least with lua you can get the number of sides ([lua]code=<<local sides = #wesnoth.sides>>[/lua]). No idea how useful this is for you since I'm a noob concerning eras and multiplayer wml . For a normal scenario I know that it's not possible to add sides afterwards (that is, in an event).

[Kapoue_II]

At least with lua you can get the number of sides ([lua]code=<<local sides = #wesnoth.sides>>[/lua]). No idea how useful this is for you since I'm a noob concerning eras and multiplayer wml . For a normal scenario I know that it's not possible to add sides afterwards (that is, in an event).

Thanks. I will take that as meaning it is impossible . The next best thing is to make the slaves defect to the enemy team. What code would I need to make them automatically join an enemy team?

[Brilliand]

Get a list of sides that are not allied with the current side (using a loop that goes through all of the sides), then use that as the input to a random number generator:

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    [set_variable]
        name=unit.side
        rand=$nonally_list
    [/set_variable]

Then unstore the unit to set it to that side. You should probably add a failsafe in case there are no nonallied sides fro some reason... I guess you could just kill the unit if the player is doing some special MP scenario with no enemies.

[Kapoue_II]

How do I get the list? I can handle the rest of the code, but I have no idea how to get the sides, except using Annonysimus's Lua code-and I have no comprehention of lua, (yet) so I hesitate to use it.

[Pentarctagon]

you could use store_unit with canrecruit=yes in the filter to get all the leaders, then use store_side to compare team names to see if they are allied or not.

[Kapoue_II]

That I knew. What I need to know is how to compare the lists. Can I stick a "[not]" tag in the [store_side]? (So that it stores all the sides who are not allied)

EDIT: This is the code I have for storing the sides, after I have stored their leaders:

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 {FOREACH leaders num}
                     [set_variable]
                       name=loop
                       add=1
                     [/set_variable]
                     [store_side]
                      side=$leaders.$loop.side
                      variable=sides
                     [/store_side]
                    {NEXT num}
Am I allowed the line that says $leaders (the variable the side leaders are in) .$loop (num is the variable that keeps track of what number loop I'm on-and subsequently, how many are stored in the variable).side

[Brilliand]

That I knew. What I need to know is how to compare the lists. Can I stick a "[not]" tag in the [store_side]? (So that it stores all the sides who are not allied)

EDIT: This is the code I have for storing the sides, after I have stored their leaders:

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 {FOREACH leaders num}
                     [set_variable]
                       name=loop
                       add=1
                     [/set_variable]
                     [store_side]
                      side=$leaders.$loop.side
                      variable=sides
                     [/store_side]
                    {NEXT num}

Am I allowed the line that says $leaders (the variable the side leaders are in) .$loop (num is the variable that keeps track of what number loop I'm on-and subsequently, how many are stored in the variable).side

I recommend this:

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{FOREACH leaders num}
    [store_side]
        side=leaders[$num].side
        variable=temp_side
    [/store_side]
    [if]
        [variable]
            name=temp_side.team_name
            not_equals=$current_team_name
        [/variable]
        [then]
            [set_variables]
                name=enemy_list
                mode=append
                [value]
                    n=leaders[$num].side
                [/value]
            [/set_variables]
        [/then]
    [/if]
{NEXT num}
[set_variable]
    name=enemy_list
    [join]
        variable=enemy_list
        key=n
        separator=,
    [/join]
[/set_variable]
[set_variable]
    name=unit.side
    rand=$enemy_list
[/set_variable]