Era of Zaestryon [unpublished]

[Zaestryon]

Hi ! First of all I'm making an Era.

All factions are remade with existing base units but adding some lower levels and giving 5 levels to great races units and 3 levels to animals (Falcons, gryphons, spiders etc.)

Bandits are no longer with dwarves but with orcs. Dwarves can recruit spiders now. New abilities and weapon specials. New AMLA. I need a lot of testing, I'm finishing units with abilities etc. I don't really like high level units not beeing able to hit a level 1. So I'm trying to balance everything for now.

[Zaestryon]

I need some help. I'm trying to make the Peasant more interesting. I want him to advance to 5 choices but I don't want us to really choose.

So I've created an event.
Here's the code.

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    [event]
        #when we recruit a Peasant
        name=recruit
        first_time_only=no
        [filter]
             type=Peasant
        [/filter]
        #we have a random variable 
        #to transform the base Peasant 
        #into another one who only advance 
        #to one choice (between Fencer, 
        #Heavy Infantryman, Sergeant, 
        #Spearman and Bowman)
        [set_variable]
            name=PeasantClass
            rand=1,2,3,4,5
        [/set_variable]
        [if]
        [variable]
            name=PeasantClass
            equals=1
        [/variable]
        [then]
            {TRANSFORM_UNIT id=Peasant PeasantArcher}
        [/then]
        [/if]
        [elseif]
        [variable]
            name=PeasantClass
            equals=2
        [/variable]
        [then]
            {TRANSFORM_UNIT id=Peasant PeasantDuel}
        [/then]
        [/elseif]
        [elseif]
        [variable]
            name=PeasantClass
            equals=3
        [/variable]
        [then]
            {TRANSFORM_UNIT id=Peasant PeasantGarde}
        [/then]
        [/elseif]
        [elseif]
        [variable]
            name=PeasantClass
            equals=4
        [/variable]
        [then]
            {TRANSFORM_UNIT id=Peasant PeasantLeader}
        [/then]
        [/elseif]
        [elseif]
        [variable]
            name=PeasantClass
            equals=5
        [/variable]
        [then]
            {TRANSFORM_UNIT id=Peasant PeasantSoldat}
        [/then]
        [/elseif]
        [clear_variable]
            name=PeasantClass
        [/clear_variable]
    [/event]

Thanks for your help, I don't have anymore ideas to fix this code. It doesn't work at all.

[Ravana]

Problem
{TRANSFORM_UNIT id=Peasant PeasantSoldat} - no unit has id Peasant - if you inspect you see it is in the form of Peasant-3.

Suggestions
{VARIABLE_OP new_type rand PeasantLeader,PeasantSoldat,...} easier to use random.

Change the recruited unit only.
[modify_unit]
[filter]
id=$unit.id
[/filter]
type=$new_type
[modify_unit]

[Zaestryon]

I'm with this event now and it still doesn't work.

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    [event]
        name=recruit
        first_time_only=no
        [filter]
             type=Peasant
        [/filter]
        {VARIABLE_OP PeasantClass rand "PeasantArcher,PeasantDuel,PeasantGarde,PeasantLeader,PeasantSoldat"}
        [modify_unit]
            [filter]
                id=$unit.id
            [/filter]
            type=$PeasantClass
        [/modify_unit]
        [clear_variable]
            name=PeasantClass
        [/clear_variable]
    [/event]

For info, I've put it in the Peasant.cfg before opening the [unit] section. Is it the problem ? Where can I put it to make this work ? I've already done something like this in the past but it was working x) but I don't remember, it was years ago. Anyway, thanks for your help !

[Ravana]

Inspect and check that your event is registered, and that variable is set (remove clearing while developing).

It does not matter if it is before [unit], rather what is the tag around [event]. Since you develop era, usual places for events are in [era] or [units][unit_type].

[Zaestryon]

Okay, thanks Ravana, I'll make more tests and will give you news later.

Otherwise, can I use units from original game campaigns without asking someone if I can ? I mean the orcish shaman and the dwarf with bolas for example ? I can't make art on my phone, if you know an app allowing me to modify or create transparent PNG files, please tell me.

[Zaestryon]

It works in the [era] section and in the [unit_type] section. It was the bug ! Thanks again, your code is really easy to use.

[Zaestryon]

Hi, my project have changed a little. I've picked some units from Ageless Era and Era of Magic to make 8 teams with about 67 possible level 5 units each. Some of these units will be randomized or limited to a certain number (leaders and mythic units of course). I'll try to keep a lot of great abilities, amlas and weapon specials from these two mods.