Need help with an income system

[ants]

Good day community, i am looking for some help.. i recently thought i'd start making a map and i thought about about making a bit unusual/different income system. Basically it will be a survival or pvp map, building a base and aquiring equipment for your hero, however, i don't want it to be a typical "wall yourself in and repair them walls while your 50 hp towers attack enemies".
The income system would be something a bit similar to markets in age of empires:
1. Every player has a limit of one (main)building where all the resources are brought
2. there are only certain points in where you can build.. lets call them markets, however they are scattered across the map so widely, and walling it all would be nearly impossible (because walls will be extremely expensive, so it would be more useful and reasonable to build/maintain a small fortress)
3. Every, say 30 seconds there would be a peasant(uncontrollable) running with a stack of cash from each market a player owns to their main building, when they reach the main building, they dissapear and the owner gains gold based on how far did the peasant come from.
4. this is so players would have to open gates during daytime when peasants bring resources and it would be disabled during night-time because then there will be intense waves of enemies roaming and attacking bases.

I am not lazy, it would just take too much time and i'm not exactly familiar with variables.. would make a huge unreasonable mess and i'm pretty sure it's a problem that could be solved way easier than i'd do it, so please someone assist me/give suggestions on this, thank you!

 

[jonas]

We all need help with an income system, buddy.

Anyway, what you want is easy to do and sounds like a good project to learn about coding. I would suggest you to use an array and custom unit values: just give each peasant on the map a unique number, and use that number as an array index for the array that stores how much gold he would give and what his destination is.
Make him walk towards his destination.
Check on all peasants on the map and see how far they are from their destination. If the distance is small enough, remove them, add the gold.

 

[Accname]

Just make those markets gold mines and have a peasant collect gold the regular way.
I dont see a need to use any custom triggers for this.

 

[jonas]

Just make those markets gold mines and have a peasant collect gold the regular way.
I dont see a need to use any custom triggers for this.

I also thought of this, but the amount of gold should depend on the distance...
If you want to get 80/20 you could do this

 

[afisakov]

3. Every, say 30 seconds there would be a peasant(uncontrollable) running with a stack of cash from each market a player owns to their main building, when they reach the main building, they dissapear and the owner gains gold based on how far did the peasant come from.
4. this is so players would have to open gates during daytime when peasants bring resources and it would be disabled during night-time because then there will be intense waves of enemies roaming and attacking bases.

How does a player control a market?
If doing so requires keeping it safe then the market would have to be within your walls.

The triggering concept I came up with:

Basic idea, have regions for all players pre-placed at map start. Then assign them to an array in the initialization trigger.
Once players build their base, move the region under that base. Periodically have all markets (fruit stand in example trigger) create a peasant and order peasants to move to region of market controller.
Assign custom value to distance calculation and pay based on that value once peasant reaches target region

init
  Events
  Conditions
  Actions
  Set player_base[1] = Region 000 <gen>
  Set player_base[2] = Region 001 <gen>
... assigning regions to array

move region
  Events
  Unit - A unit Finishes construction
  Conditions
  (Unit-type of (Triggering unit)) Equal to Fruit Stand
  Actions
  Region - Center player_base[(Player number of (Owner of (Triggering unit)))] on (Position of (Triggering unit))
--assumes players can have only one base, and point leak minor issue since this would rarely run

periodic sp
  Events
  Time - Every 30.00 seconds of game time
  Conditions
  And - All (Conditions) are true
  Conditions
  (In-game time of day) Greater than or equal to 7.00
  (In-game time of day) Less than or equal to 21.00
  Actions
  Set Temp_Group = (Units in (Playable map area) matching ((Unit-type of (Matching unit)) Equal to Fruit Stand))
  Unit Group - Pick every unit in (Units in (Playable map area) matching ((Unit-type of (Matching unit)) Equal to Fruit Stand)) and do (Actions)
  Loop - Actions
  Set temp_point1 = (Position of (Picked unit))
  Unit - Create 1 Peasant for (Owner of (Picked unit)) at temp_point1 facing Default building facing degrees
  Set temp_point2 = (Center of player_base[(Player number of (Owner of (Picked unit)))])
  Unit - Set the custom value of (Last created unit) to (Integer((Distance between temp_point1 and temp_point2)))
  Unit - Make (Last created unit) Invulnerable
  Unit - Order (Last created unit) to Move To (Center of player_base[(Player number of (Owner of (Picked unit)))])
  Custom script:  call RemoveLocation (udg_temp_point1)
  Custom script:  call RemoveLocation (udg_temp_point2)
  Custom script:  call DestroyGroup (udg_Temp_Group)
--creates peasant and forces movement (I forgot how to make non-selectable, something to do with locust ability)

award gold
  Events
  Unit - A unit enters Region 000 <gen>
  Unit - A unit enters Region 001 <gen>
  Unit - A unit enters Region 002 <gen>
  Unit - A unit enters Region 003 <gen>
... other used player regions
  Conditions
  (Unit-type of (Triggering unit)) Equal to Peasant
  Actions
  Wait 0.10 game-time seconds
  If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
  If - Conditions
  (player_base[(Player number of (Owner of (Triggering unit)))] contains (Triggering unit)) Equal to True
  Then - Actions
  Player - Add ((Custom value of (Triggering unit)) / 10) to (Owner of (Triggering unit)) Current gold
  Unit - Remove (Triggering unit) from the game
  Else - Actions
--awards gold and removes peasant. I would recommend also adding a message to the player in final version.

Hopefully I did not miss anything important, and I hope it works for you.

 

[ants]

@ afisakov: Thanks for your reply, you kind of got what i was trying to figure out, markets are scattered across the map and the main building(resource gathering point) is within your walls.
Your example of triggers has been useful (Thank you for that) but i have run into trouble, currently my peasants move straght to the center of the map, Player_base is region variable with array, right? there should'nt be anything going wrong with the first trigger, so where does it?
(i also see that you replaced the main building with fruit stand aswell in "move region" trigger)
Gonna try to figure this out for now, thanks anyway for your help ya'll.

!!!EDIT!!! i apologize, im retarded, forgot to put event - map initialization on the first trigger

edit edit: when i test it now, it works on initialization (i have markets and player 1 region set, there is no main building yet) and everything works as intended, however, when i build the main building, peasants start moving towards it, but it doesnt seem to work since it appears that player 1 <gen> is still in its original location while player_base moved to the main building so the event in the final trigger "unit enters player 1 <gen>" doesn't work.
Is this somehow my mistake or it's somekind of a bug?
Could i use an alternative of event "unit comes within range"?

 

[afisakov]

@ afisakov: Thanks for your reply, you kind of got what i was trying to figure out, markets are scattered across the map and the main building(resource gathering point) is within your walls.
Your example of triggers has been useful (Thank you for that) but i have run into trouble, currently my peasants move straght to the center of the map, Player_base is region variable with array, right? there should'nt be anything going wrong with the first trigger, so where does it?
(i also see that you replaced the main building with fruit stand aswell in "move region" trigger)
Gonna try to figure this out for now, thanks anyway for your help ya'll.

!!!EDIT!!! i apologize, im retarded, forgot to put event - map initialization on the first trigger

edit edit: when i test it now, it works on initialization (i have markets and player 1 region set, there is no main building yet) and everything works as intended, however, when i build the main building, peasants start moving towards it, but it doesnt seem to work since it appears that player 1 <gen> is still in its original location while player_base moved to the main building so the event in the final trigger "unit enters player 1 <gen>" doesn't work.
Is this somehow my mistake or it's somekind of a bug?
Could i use an alternative of event "unit comes within range"?

Odd, I thought it would let you move the region...
there are alternative ways to try to duplicate the effect, though I thought this one was the most straightforward.
Option 1: Order the peasants to attack the main base (instead of move) (with atk of 1, base would have regen) and use the event a unit is attacked
downside: you will keep getting prompts that main base under attack, u are forced to give it at least some regen, cannot make it invulnerable
Option 2:
use a periodic timer to check distance for all player owned peasants to base, for this method you would want to assign the main base of each player to an array, method for calculating distance without leaking in one of my prev triggers.
downside: this is far more processor intensive then unit enters region and if you leave any memory leaks in it will add up fast.
Option 3:
Use Trigger-add event to add the event unit enters playerbase[playernumber...] when market built (afterregion move step) to the award gold trigger
come to think of it, this may be the easiest solution; though I am still unsure why it did not work in first place.

 

[ants]

Odd, I thought it would let you move the region...
there are alternative ways to try to duplicate the effect, though I thought this one was the most straightforward.
Option 1: Order the peasants to attack the main base (instead of move) (with atk of 1, base would have regen) and use the event a unit is attacked
downside: you will keep getting prompts that main base under attack, u are forced to give it at least some regen, cannot make it invulnerable
Option 2:
use a periodic timer to check distance for all player owned peasants to base, for this method you would want to assign the main base of each player to an array, method for calculating distance without leaking in one of my prev triggers.
downside: this is far more processor intensive then unit enters region and if you leave any memory leaks in it will add up fast.
Option 3:
Use Trigger-add event to add the event unit enters playerbase[playernumber...] when market built (afterregion move step) to the award gold trigger
come to think of it, this may be the easiest solution; though I am still unsure why it did not work in first place.

Thanks for all your help, buddy.. i made a unit array variable and ordered peasants to attack it, works like a charm, it's the best solution actually and the downsides don't exist because when your own units attack your base, you don't get the "base under attack" messages, also regen won't be necessary because the event "a unit is attacked" is when the animation begins, the peasants won't be able to finish the animation because they'll be removed

 

[afisakov]

Thanks for all your help, buddy.. i made a unit array variable and ordered peasants to attack it, works like a charm, it's the best solution actually and the downsides don't exist because when your own units attack your base, you don't get the "base under attack" messages, also regen won't be necessary because the event "a unit is attacked" is when the animation begins, the peasants won't be able to finish the animation because they'll be removed

Did not think of that. Glad it works for you.