Sure, no problem. I'll try to do better, grin.
May be a specific example will be helpful.
I have a structure called a barracks.
The barracks start off being able to train the Marine. The Marine is just a
basic grunt.
As time goes by the player will be able to build more buildings which then add
to the ability of the barracks to build more diverse types of soldiers.
An example is a building called the ghost Academy. The ghost is a biological
soldier that can eventually cloak.
There is a building called the tech lab which the barracks can build. It allows
the barracks to gain the ability to create two new soldiers called the reaper
and the marauder.
Essentially, the player can only build one of these units at a time.
But if the player adds something called the reactor to the barracks, the
barracks will be able to produce two units at the same time.
The problem I am having is that the barracks could be different from player to
player. Someone could hate dealing with marauders and so they never elect the
ability for their barracks. Someone could avoid building a ghost Academy and so
never having to deal with ghosts.
So what I'm getting at is that the barracks skill lineup could be different
each time it's used. On top of this each unit that I mentioned can be upgraded
at least two or three times.
Normally I would have the skill remove itself during the time it's taking to
train the unit, and when the unit is ready it pops up a new skill so that unit
can be summoned.
So my first thought was to remove the other skills that would research and
summon the other units. But I would not know at any time if the player had all,
some, or none of the other skills.
To make a long story longer… I can't figure out how to make sure only one unit
can be made at a time, and also if reactor is attached how to make it possible
for the player to make two units at a time.
I hope that helps explain my situation. If it still doesn't make sense then I'm
out of luck, LOL.
With the tiles that's another interesting and convoluted subject. In StarCraft
2, the player has access to places on the map where they can gather resources
which power the economy of all their buildings and units. These are in the form
of minerals and gas.
In the cited game the player orders his or her harvesting units. These units go
to these special tiles and start mining them. As they mind the stuff and bring
it to their base, the amount that is left to be gathered on that tile starts to
decrease. Eventually the tile will disappear and that particular resource will
be tapped out.
Since these are very important resources for all three factions, when this
happens the players/computer will expand operations into areas called
expansions. From what I can understand these expansion areas provide more
minerals and gas tiles, but also causes the different opposing sides to fight
over the dwindling resources.
So if you control the resources, you control the map and the enemy will not be
able to replenish their units or build new structures.
So how do I make a tile slowly lose its usefulness.
Thanks for any help,
Al
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Hey,
Could you please send me a bit more of an explanation? I think I know
what you're getting at, but I want clarification before I just start
handing out advice haha.
On 7/12/15, Allan Thompson <allan1.thompson@xxxxxxx> wrote:
I have a problem, and also a StarCraft update for the ones of people who
are
interested, LOL.
With the advancement of tb in terms of new flags and scripts the work on
the
Terran faction has gone pretty good. This is not going to be anything like
warlords. Maybe war craft?
My hope is that it will be similar enough to the game so that those who
have
played it could see a similarity, while those who haven't get a taste of
what it's really like.
I'm hoping within the week, God willing, I can actually have something
available for testing the Terran faction.
One of the cool things about the Terran are the structures called add-ons.
They open up technology and help diversify various units with special
abilities. There also able to be used by multiple flying buildings.
One of the ad on buildings is called a reactor. This allows a structure to
build more than one unit at a time. This is very useful because everything
takes rounds to build or train. Because of this time factor, speed is king.
If you can get your troops out faster into an expansion area or battle,
then
you're that much ahead of the game and/or the other player.
My problem is twofold. One is that with the reactor I'm not really sure how
to simulate this increase production. I thought maybe being able to summon
two units at a time might work, but not thrilled with that particular idea.
What if someone wanted to make two different types of units at the same
time
instead of two from one type.
In addition all the structures that produce units don't start with the
ability to produce them all. Different buildings open up these units, and
one might not necessarily follow the full tech tree. Someone might want to
skip the biological units and go straight for the mechs. So I can't just do
a broad stroke, for instance removing and adding all the skills all at
once.
I don't know, maybe I'm thinking too hard about it.
My other problem is that in StarCraft there is different levels of mineral
mines and gas geysers. In addition they all are not static. As resources
are
taken away they begin to dwindle until it disappears. As it turns out, this
is actually become more more important because if a resource doesn't
deplete, then why move to a different expansion? Why would you fight for an
expansion?
Anyway, long story short, I'm hoping to get some ideas about these two
things if anyone has the time and inclination.
Thanks for reading,
al
of Nazareth 33AD
