An Intermediate Guide to Scripting

**Duke John** · 02-22-2006, 08:02

While experimenting with scripts I noticed that some AdviceThreads in export_descr_advice.txt have a parameter. I found SettlementName and CharacterName. Not useful for me, but I guess some can use it to make their Advisor texts a little bit more detailed, showing the settlement's or character's name.

**paullus** · 03-04-2006, 03:38

Is there a way to make the background script detect whether an AI faction has done something, and then have that trigger an event script at the start of the player's turn?

**Epistolary Richard** · 03-04-2006, 18:53

Depends on what the AI faction has done. What AI event do you want to trigger it?

**HalfThere** · 03-04-2006, 19:19

Which of the following events would be detectable for an AI nation?
Takes a (particular) city.
Declares war/peace with another nation.
Accumulates X amount of money.
Family member (specifically faction leader) dies.
Family member accumulates X command stars.

**LorDBulA** · 03-04-2006, 19:43

These should be possible.
Just open beginer screepting guide and dive in into RTW script documentation.

**paullus** · 03-04-2006, 23:05

Originally Posted by Epistolary Richard

Depends on what the AI faction has done. What AI event do you want to trigger it?

Beseiging a city would probably be best.

**Epistolary Richard** · 03-05-2006, 10:31

Besieging a city's tricky, you can put a conditional in for a monitor to fire if an enemy family member is within one tile of a certain location and if the two factions are at war.

Gets a bit cumbersome with large numbers of factions and cities, but it's possible.

LorDBulA does something similar with his Roma siege script, have a look at his code:
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=24968

You can use something like that to increment a counter and then have a separate monitor_event FactionTurnStart FactionIsLocal with an I_CompareCounter condition. Be sure to set the counter back to 0 though, otherwise it will keep triggering.

**Tittils** · 03-05-2006, 22:16

This is a quite similar question, but I hope it can be done:

Is it possible to make an army (or naval army) besiege a city/port at game start through a script? I'm not very familiar with scrpits, so I hope someone could help me with this one.

- Tittils -

**paullus** · 03-07-2006, 23:42

ER,

Sorry I was unclear. I meant to say "besieging a neutral city." Unless I'm missing something (certainly a possibility), I don't think those conditions would work with a city you do not own. Is there anything else I could try?

Thanks much.