Easy question: how to make the AI send chat messages

[Slaughter]

I have a trigger-based gold-giving system in my td. I remember, in tds of old, checking the chatlog for the "-give 03 04" message that would indicate I had gotten money from someone.

Can I make a computer-controlled player send messages announcing the transfer of gold, so that the chatlog records the event?

If not, I'll have to throw a column up on the multiboard, something like "depts," that goes up when you get money from allies and down when you give it to them. That way, if it reads

0
5
-2
-3

player two knows he owes two gold to player 3 and three to player 4.

Actually, this is probably the better way to do it anyway, but I'd like to know about the chatlog method, too.

So how do you make AIs chat at players, using triggers?

 

[kroft]

Quite simply.

event:
player x sends chat message -give gold 03

conditions:
put what u think is neccessary
actions:
Display Text Message "Text"

 

[Slaughter]

no no no

I want something else to trigger a chat message from an AI. I can't use an ordinary text message because then it would not appear in the chatlog.

The event is all worked out. It's the action I have trouble with: making an AI chat at players.

 

[Kershbob]

That doesn't come up in the chat log.

Why not make a custom ability that makes a text message come up showing how much you owe? No-one likes looking through a massive chatlog to see how much they owe anyway.

 

[ArusSage]

I don't think it's possible to force people to say things. Then again, I don't know all of the advanced triggers because I don't have my TFT CD.

 

[Kershbob]

If you want to do it the way I suggested:

Events
Unit - A unit Begins casting an ability
Conditions
(Ability being cast) Equal to <ability>
Actions
Game - Display to (Player group((Owner of (Casting unit)))) the text: (String(gold[(Player number of (Owner of (Casting unit)))]))


You might want to edit the text message a bit. At the moment all it is is a number.

 

[Slaughter]

I put it in the multiboard. It's for the best.

Nobody likes sorting through a massive chatlog to see how much they owe.