How to make a unit gain exp per turn?

[CloudCandy]

Is there any way in a unit's code to make them gain a certain amount of experience after every turn passes?

I'm trying to make an egg, and originally I based it off of the Ant Egg, however that unit hatches depending on factors that I do not want.
I wish for my egg to hatch after a certain amount of turns, aka, each turn that passes gives it one more exp point until it reaches the advancement point.

My closest guess on how to achieve this would be to trigger an event if a turn passes, and that event would add one experience point every time its activated.

I am new to WML, and so I do not know what terms to use to make this happen if possible. Any help is appreciated, thanks <3

[Ravana]

Yes, event is correct way. But if you want it not interact with fight xp then you may use variable instead.

AI is able to provide suitable code for that:

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[event]
    name=side turn
    first_time_only=no
    id=egg_hatching_timer
    [modify_unit]
        [filter]
            type=Your_Egg_Unit_ID # Replace this with your egg's actual unit ID
            side=$side_number     # Only affects eggs belonging to the current side
        [/filter]
        experience="$($this_unit.experience + 1)"
    [/modify_unit]
[/event]

[lhybrideur]

I think you missed the part where he wrote he would like to put it in the unit type.
You would need to change the experience=... to an [effect] IMHO.
Something like

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[effect]
	apply_to=experience
	increase=1
[/effect

[Ravana]

Unit type supports events. Effect also works.

[lhybrideur]

I was more worried about the $this_unit, but I now realize that this variable is automatically initialized by [modify_unit]

[BajMic]

If an unit is being fed XP outside of combat, would it advance on its own?

[lhybrideur]

It depends how it is done, but normally yes.