How many times have you not seen that your RPG hero simply crushes (or gets crushed by) the enemy units. Specially when it is an army 30 minutes away from your starting point. You can really get an headache from such things espacially in a MP scen.

1. The enemy units
First we will classify all enemy units on the map into different groups depending on their strength. These groups will all get assigned a different amount of gold.
exemple
Let`s say we want our hero to attack armies of Hoplites and Einerjhar.

TRIGGER 1

• active

Condition

• always

Effects

• Moddify protounit
  
  
  1. unit=Hoplite
     
  2. moddify=unit cost food
     
  3. delta=-50
  
  
• Moddify protounit
  
  
  1. unit=hoplite
     
  2. moddify=unit cost gold
     
  3. delta=-39
  
  
• Moddify protounit
  
  
  1. unit=Einerjhar
     
  2. moddify=unit cost favor
     
  3. delta=-15
  
  
• Moddify protounit
  
  
  1. unit=Einerjhar
     
  2. moddify=unit cost gold
     
  3. delta=-173
     
  
  

What you`ve done now is changed the cost of a Hoplite to 1 gold and the cost of a Einerjhar has been decreased too 2 gold.
NOTE: it is important to make the units cost of food/wood/favor EXACTLY 0.

2. The quest var

Trigger 2

• active

Condition OR

• Units killed cost player 1
  
  
  1. value=0
  
  
• Units killed cost player 2
  
  
  1. value=0
  
  
• Units killed cost player 3
  
  
  1. value=0
  
  
• Units killed cost player 4
  
  
  1. value=0
  
  

effects:

• quest var set
  
  
  1. value 0
     
  2. var name=Unit
  
  

This is your starting setting

When you have killed some units your quest var should be different so:

Trigger 2B

• active

Condition

• Units killed cost player 1
  
  1. value=4
  
  
• Units killed cost player 2
  
  1. value=4
  
  
• Units killed cost player 3
  
  1. value=4
  
  
• Units killed cost player 4
  
  1. value=4

Effects

• Quest var modify

1. QV=Unit
   
2. Operator=+
   
3. value=1

With trigger 2B you made the questvar set go from 0 too 1 because you have killed more units now.

3. The enemy Armys
This is the hard part. We will now combine these two factors too select the enemy units. I`ve made a pictuire for the example.

Trigger 3

• active

Conditions

• Quest var check
  
  
  1. QV=Unit
     
  2. operator ==
     
  3. value=0
  
  
• units in the area (center unit is the Cinematic block closest too Arkantos)
  
  
  1. player 1
     
  2. unit (because in most RPG`s the character changes appearance)
     
  3. amount=10 (or whatever you want)

  
  Effects
  

• army deploy (at the left cinematic block)
  
  
  1. player 2 (or other player depending on you scenario)
     
  2. hoplite
     
  3. amount 3
  
  
• army deploy (at the right cinematic block)
  
  
  1. player 2 (or other player depending on you scenario)
     
  2. hoplite
     
  3. amount 3
  
  
• Change unit type (I usually add these effects so it looks better but it is not necessary)
  
  
  1. left cinematic block
     
  2. change in (for example) forest fire SFX
  
  
• Change unit type (I usually add these effects so it looks better but it is not necessary)
  
  
  1. right cinematic block
     
  2. change in (for example) forest fire SFX

Trigger 3B

• active

  Conditions
  

• Quest var check
  
  
  1. QV=Unit
     
  2. operator ==
     
  3. value=1
  
  
• units in the area (center unit is the Cinematic block closest too Arkantos)
  
  
  1. player 1
     
  2. unit (because in most RPG`s the character changes appearance)
     
  3. 10 (or whatever you want)
  
  Effects
  
• army deploy (at the left cinematic block)
  
  
  1. player 2 (or other player depending on you scenario)
     
  2. Einerjahr
     
  3. amount 3[/uo]
     
  4. army deploy (at the right cinematic block)[ol]
     
  5. player 2 (or other player depending on you scenario)
     
  6. Einerjahr
     
  7. amount 3
  
  
• Change unit type (I usually add these effects so it looks better but it is not necessary)
  
  
  1. left cinematic block
     
  2. change in (for example) forest fire SFX
  
  
• Change unit type (I usually add these effects so it looks better but it is not necessary)
  
  
  1. right cinematic block
     
  2. change in (for example) forest fire SFX
  
  

What you now have done is simple when your hero has killed enough units he will face better enemies.

4. Other uses of this tirgger

when you are too lazy to make different army`s you can also make the enemy troops stronger! You can also use this one together with the army trigger.

Trigger 4B (optional)

• active

  Conditions
  

• Quest var check
  
  
  1. QV=Unit
     
  2. operator ==
     
  3. value=1
  
  Effects
  
• set tech status
  
  
  1. player 2 (or other player depending on you scenario)
     
  2. Monstreus Rage (assuming you are fighting against MU`s)
     
  3. available
  
  
• Set tech status
  
  
  1. player 2 (or other player depending on you scenario)
     
  2. Medium all(assuming you are fighting against humans)
     
  3. available

  this is what you ment Nottud, issn`t it
  
  

Offcourse you can also use moddify protounit

NOTE: For multiplayer RPG`s You have to deploy the army to a player, like for exemple player 1 and than convert the army to the enemy computer player. Because Army deploy will NOT work for cpu players in multiplayer. Of course you can also just insurt a lot of cinematic blocks or other invisseble items.

Questions are welcome!

[This message has been edited by Ilum Tupac (edited 03-31-2006 @ 11:20 AM).]