Can I use a script to end the turn?

**mrtwisties** · 11-28-2007, 08:42

Can I use simulate_mouse_click to end the turn? Is there a better way of doing it?

I'm trying to create a script that does this:

1. Starts as faction 1.
2. Switches to faction 2, so that the AI plays the turn for faction 1.
3. Switches to faction 1 and ends the turn.
4. Loop back to 1, until the counter reaches x.

Here's the code I've got so far:

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**mrtwisties** · 11-28-2007, 09:11

Maybe something like this?

select_ui_element end_turn
simulate_mouse_click lclick_down
simulate_mouse_click lclick_up

**mrtwisties** · 11-28-2007, 09:53

Okay, that does work, I just can't figure out how to loop it.

**mrtwisties** · 11-28-2007, 09:58

Here's the code I'm using now:

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There are two tasks that I still need to complete:

1. Figure out how to loop this script, so that it keeps advancing turns under AI control until it reaches a certain turn number.

2. Create triggers to switch control temporarily to another faction whenever a dialog box pops up (eg a treaty negotiation, or battle, or adoption box).

Can anyone help with #1? Please? I'm guessing it has something to do with monitors and whiles, but I just don't get it.

**Monkwarrior** · 11-28-2007, 10:00

I'm not sure that your objective is possible at all.
Do you want the AI to play all factions for some turns?

I know there is a method to make the AI play the game (I think the option -ai in the desktop shortcut), but I wonder if you can retrieve the control of the game after some turns.

For example, I would try a background script (started directly at the beginning of the campaign) with the console_command control romans_julii option after some turns.

As one possibility:

Code:

script

declare_counter loop

monitor_event FactionTurnStart FactionType romans_julii
and I_TurnNumber = 2
console_command control romans_julii
terminate_monitor
end_monitor

while I_CompareCounter loop = 0
end_while

end_script

It is only a draft, but perhaps you can calibrate if the solution is possible.

After that, if really you can play julii, you must save the game and load the saved campaign with a normal shortcut to RTW (without -ai option). In such case the background script won't work.

**Monkwarrior** · 11-28-2007, 10:03

Ops, posting at the same time.

Could you explain the main objective of the script?
I don't understand if you are trying to play different factions along the game, or only taking decisions for the AI in some moments.

**Makanyane** · 11-28-2007, 10:04

I think what you want might be something similar to ER's year jump script - its only little download you might as well have a look at it: https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=65109

That was using an emerging faction from BI though, I'm not sure if it will work if you haven't got a redundant faction to switch control to

EDIT: lots of posting at same time! You can not get control back after using -ai on the shortcut unfortunately.

**Monkwarrior** · 11-28-2007, 10:09

Originally Posted by Makanyane

I think what you want might be something similar to ER's year jump script - its only little download you might as well have a look at it: https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=65109

That was using an emerging faction from BI though, I'm not sure if it will work if you haven't got a redundant faction to switch control to

EDIT: lots of posting at same time! You can not get control back after using -ai on the shortcut unfortunately.

I was looking for this, but I didn't remember the name of the mod.

And you solved my doubts.

The only problem of year_jump is that it works giving the human player the control of a faction that is not present in the initial game. It is possible to make one faction in RTW "spawned_by_event" without that event, and use it as the "ghost faction". The other limitation is that the number of turns is fixed. I don't know if this fits with the objective of mrtwisties.

**mrtwisties** · 11-28-2007, 10:23

Wow, thanks heaps for the responses, guys. It's very encouraging.

What I'd like to be able to do is make a script that'll hand control to the AI for x turns, after which I start playing again. I want to make it work for EB, but I'm testing on RTW 1.5 at the moment because it's faster (and because my EB installation is a bit corrupted).

You can see more about what I'm trying to do here: https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=95753

Epistolary Richard's mod, as has been said, works by switching control to an unemerged emergent faction until turn x. Since EB already has 21 factions (none of which are emergent), my understanding is that this just wouldn't work.

If you run this code, you'll advance to the next turn:

console_command control egypt
console_command add_money 1000
campaign_wait 60
console_command control romans_julii

There are two problems with it so far:

1. It doesn't run again the next turn, so you have to run it again manually. I'd like it to run automatically at the start of every Julii turn until, say, 200 BCE. I've had a couple of goes at using looped monitors linked to FactionTurnStart FactionIsLocal or FactionType romans_julii, but I just can't get them to work. Here's one example of my crappy code:

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2. Whenever the Julii or Egyptians have to make a decision while you're in command of them, you need to be the one making the decision. I was thinking of setting up a bunch of monitors so that, whenever there's a decision to be made, the script will switch control to someone else and then straight back, so that the decision is made for you.

I hope that makes it a bit clearer what I'm trying to do and what I've done. I'm totally hoping that there's just a simple mistake I've made. I'm very new to this.