[ian-reeds-games] number and name script updated

  • From: Carlos Macintosh <sleepio1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: ian-reeds-games@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 16:24:59 -0400

Hi guys! Back in the really really old days of Warlords Allan Thompson used a version of Abigail Prescott's number and name script to help us scatterbrained players to keep track of the dozens of units we were recruiting. After Ian depricated the old event style in favor of the script flag system, he took them out. I decided that this just wouldn't do and updated the number and name script to use script flags. I decided to release this now, because I just played fire of the oceans today and the author of that pack uses the number and name thing with the old event style, which Ian is wanting to deprecate. Since there aren't too many skills in there right now, I thought it would be good to release the script flag version before you have to change all of those lines around. I was going to release it along with a modified version of Age of Warlords that used the number and name thing, but I decided to rush the release for that reason.

The link is
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8252087/Abigail%20Prescott.zip

Usage:
in the script flags section of any skill use the following two script flags to enable summoning of units with numbering.
summon_with_number human_light_cavalry
unitname horsemen

where human_light_cavalry is the name of the unit to be summoned, make sure that you use underscores here. Horsemen is the name that will be used to label the units, along with the name of the structure they came from, if it exists. So if you had a settlement named New York, and you used a recruit light cavalry skill with these script flags, you would get a unit called new York Horsemen 1, and numbers would go subsequently from there. There is a bug where, if units die, it will repeat numbers so you might have more than one unit numbered 3 or 4 of the same type. I really have no idea how to fix this, because of the way the units are counted. Maybe someone could do something about it? But that should help us all stay organized when dealing with scores of units.

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