Text-based Alliance and Name Changes

[The Arcot]

Ive been fiddling around with this for a while, and I am having difficulty finding any answers through he search function, so I though I would make my own thread. Anyway, thats beside the point...

I want to recreate the command system that lets players change their names and alliances through typed commands (e.g. "-ally red", "-name Awesome-o 5000").

Now, It's probably not that complicated, but I'm dumb so I can't quite figure out what the event would be. If somebody could show me the trigger from an already existing system (or a link to a tutorial for such a system) it would be much appreciated.

 

[Insane!]

Trigger

Events
        Player - Player 1 (Red) types a chat message containing -name as A substring
    Conditions
    Actions
        Player - Set name of Player 1 (Red) to (Substring((Entered chat string), 7, 20))

that works for the name change

 

[The Arcot]

Awesome, thanks a bunch! What would it be for team alliances? Its would be a bit more specific, wouldn't it?

I tried making an exact string (like a player enters "-ally Red" as an exact match) then set the entering player to ally red, but it didn't work. Maybe I messed something up.

 

[Insane!]

Untitled Trigger 003
    Events
        Player - Player 1 (Red) types a chat message containing -ally as A substring
    Conditions
    Actions
        Player - For Player 1 (Red), turn Alliance (non-aggression) On toward (Player((Integer((Substring((Entered chat string), 6, 9))))))

that should work
also enter the players number
like 1 2 3 9 10 11

NOTE: im not positive it will work

 

[The Arcot]

It doesn't seem to be working. I don't think the game can identify a string as a team name.

 

[Insane!]

well i dont know what to tell you but
1. you may have entered it wrong
2. or you can do it like this

Trigger 
    Events
        Player - Player 1 (Red) types a chat message containing -ally blue as An exact match
    Conditions
    Actions
        Player - For Player 1 (Red), turn Alliance (non-aggression) On toward Player 2 (Blue)

 

[The Arcot]

Gasp, I suppose. Is there a way to make it so the event is that if any player types that, they get allied to the inserted player?

Otherwise I would have to make 121 different triggers.

 

[Insane!]

Gasp, I suppose. Is there a way to make it so the event is that if any player types that, they get allied to the inserted player?

Otherwise I would have to make 121 different triggers.

yeah i dont know a better solution
at the moment

 

[The Arcot]

anyone else have any ideas?

 

[Drunken_God]

use triggering player andadd each palyer to the event

 

[The Arcot]

I was thinking more in terms of the event, not the action.

 

[Frozenwind]

In map initation:
set string_var[1] = "Red"
set string_var[2] = "Blue"
set string_var[3] = "Teal"
etc.

E: Player - Player 1 (Red) types a chat message containing "-ally " as a substring
---- list all players here ----
C: substring 1,6 is equal to "-ally "
A:
For each integer A from 1 to 12 to actions:
    if (substring string_var[IntegerA] 1,4) is equal to (substring enterered chatstring 7,10)
        then
        Player - For Triggering Player, turn Alliance (non-aggression) On toward (Player(Integer(Integer A)))

That might help a lot...

frozenwind.