Event "when leader dies"

[Rya]

I have 4 vs 4 CPU scenario and want to add the following rule to it: If one of the CPU leaders die, the other 3 leaders get 100 gold. How can I write such an event?

[TheScribe]

I think this is what you want. (I might have made a mistake in the code, it's been a while )

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  [event]
   name=die
    [filter]
     id=BadGuy
    [/filter]
    [gold]
     amount=100
     side=Badguyside2, Badguyside3, Badguyside4
    [/gold]
  [/event]

Replace the id in the 'die' event with the leader's id, and replace the sides with the sides that are to recieve gold.

[JaMiT]

So the four leaders are on the same team? As in they have the same team_name= in their [side] definitions? That would be one way to identify them in a [filter] tag. Here's a translation of your rule into WML:

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    [event]
        # "If [someone] die"
        name = die

        # "one of the CPU leaders"
        [filter]
            canrecruit = yes    # This matches leaders
            [filter_side]
                team_name = CPU  # This matches the same field in a [side] definition.
            [/filter_side]
        [/filter]

        # "get 100 gold"
        [gold]
            amount = 100

            # "the other 3 leaders" (which I am taking to mean the allies of the killed unit)
            [filter_side] # This tag (but not its contents) goes away in 1.12.
                [allied_with]
                    side = $unit.side   # This means the side of the unit that died.
                [/allied_with]
                [not]
                    side = $unit.side   # This means the side of the unit that died.
                [/not]
            [/filter_side]
        [/gold]
    [/event]

You could instead do a filter on each leader's ID, but then you would need to list all four IDs. The fewer details you encode into your event, the more robust the event is as changes are made to the scenario.

[TheScribe]

I'd go with JaMiT's code if I were you, mine's kinda crude...

[Rya]

Oh yeah that solution seems really nice.

How would I know the leader unit ID anyway? Shouldn't I rather filter for side then?

By the way, the closing filter tag should be [/filter] I think.


Edit: Hmm doesn't work it gives the following error:

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empty_side= and no [filter_side] is deprecated, use either side=1 or [filter_side]

That's strange...

[JaMiT]

How would I know the leader unit ID anyway?

Sometimes leader IDs are assigned in the scenario.

By the way, the closing filter tag should be [/filter] I think.

Right. Fixed it.

Edit: Hmm doesn't work it gives the following error:

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empty_side= and no [filter_side] is deprecated, use either side=1 or [filter_side]

That's strange...

Oh sorry. I was using the 1.11/1.12 syntax. In 1.10, you still need a [filter_side] tag (which I've edited into my earlier post).

[Rya]

It works now. Thanks!