School

wisdomless · Post by **wisdomless** » October 13th, 2005, 1:52 pm

I have an odd idea. Well, it's kinda a question. Is it possible with the WML to make a "house" that gives xp instead of healing? It would be changed from a house to a "school". Players could use "schools" to slowly train a unit up to level 2 (or 3, depending on the settings) without risk of losing it.

scott · Post by **scott** » October 13th, 2005, 2:05 pm

Yes. This is an easy one.

moveto event filtered on the x,y location of the school

store the unit at the x,y location

add to his experience with set_variable

unstore the unit

You can even set a counter to make sure it doesn't give out too much xp.

wisdomless · Post by **wisdomless** » October 13th, 2005, 2:16 pm

That was a bit over my head. Could you dumb it down? What .cfg file do I need to do this in?

Post by **zookeeper** » October 13th, 2005, 2:37 pm

In order to give xp every turn that the unit stays in the school, simple moveto events and store/unstores won't work. Here's how I'd probably try to do it:

1. When the side's turn ends, check if any units are in a school
2. Store (to an array, for instance) or otherwise mark the units that are
3. In the beginning of the next turn, check if those units are still alive, in place, etc., and then add some xp for those that are

I don't think that it's possible to reliably advance a unit to the next level with WML, so you'd probably need to make sure the xp does stay 1 point below (or at?) the next level xp requirement.

Sorry for not giving any practical help on this, though.

scott · Post by **scott** » October 13th, 2005, 2:58 pm

Good point. You can probably skip steps 1 and 2 and have the event fire on new turn or side turn.
Side turn gives out experience at the end of the turn though.

My perspective had been colored by my current writing mode, which is no turns/unlimited movement.

This needs to be written as an event in the scenario configuration file.
I'll try to post code in a bit if you can't figure things out first.

Post by **zookeeper** » October 13th, 2005, 3:02 pm

scott wrote: Good point. You can probably skip steps 1 and 2 and have the event fire on new turn or side turn.

Umm, yeah, that's true. Silly me.

scott wrote: Side turn gives out experience at the end of the turn though.

You can use side turn to give out the xp in the beginning or the end of one's turn (the former really being at the end of the previous side's turn).

wisdomless · Post by **wisdomless** » October 13th, 2005, 3:13 pm

...
Okay, that makes sense to me. Kinda... Dang it.
Okay, write it as an event... But would this be applied to all houses? That would be bad. I was trying to create a new "house" and have very few of them on the map. Each one bordering a castle perhaps, but still have normal houses. I know this can be done, but aren't events for campaigns? I was hoping this could be an MP thing.

Elvish_Pillager · Post by **Elvish_Pillager** » October 13th, 2005, 4:05 pm

Events are for scenarios. A campaign scenario is a scenario, and a multiplayer scenario is a scenario.

wisdomless · Post by **wisdomless** » October 13th, 2005, 4:41 pm

So in MP (as in, on the server) I can have a map with events? That's cool...

scott · Post by **scott** » October 13th, 2005, 5:02 pm

The game comes with examples of multiplayer scenarios. Just add your event tags in the file somewhere between [scenario] and [/scenario].

Tomsik · Post by **Tomsik** » October 13th, 2005, 6:29 pm

scott wrote:Just add your event tags in the file somewhere between [scenario] and [/scenario].

Or between [multiplayer] and [/multiplayer], it will work too.

wisdomless · Post by **wisdomless** » October 13th, 2005, 8:42 pm

Cool. Thanks!

wisdomless2 · Post by **wisdomless2** » April 24th, 2006, 7:21 pm

Did anyone else find this interesting, perhaps enough to implement it? I run SUSE 10.0 now, so I don't have my wesnoth stuff anymore. Plus I have to re-learn all that I knew... But I thought I'd add that SUSE came with a version of wesnoth! Yeah! Even though it's only version 8.0 (or 9.0 I forget.) which is kinda a bummer.

Dragon Master · Post by **Dragon Master** » April 25th, 2006, 1:00 am

I do like your idea of "schools", but I think they should give 4 xp a turn with a 1 xp cap so that you can't make an awesome unit without combat. But they need a better name....Barracks?University?Training Grounds?Arena?

Cuyo Quiz · Post by **Cuyo Quiz** » April 25th, 2006, 1:48 am

Pits. You may call them Training/War/Blood or whatever, but omst of the ruthlessness that makes the thing work for all factions would be that it is a pit, where two units fight until they are tired.