For anyone that has used my original modify protounit absolute http://aom.heavengames.com/cgi-bin/forums/display.cgi?action=ct&f=13,29917,0,all there was an issue where some fields that are integer based would not work. I have discovered a second exploit which abuses integer overflow that allows integer fields to be set now too. Below is a modified improved version which should now work with every field.

   <Effect name="Modify Protounit Absolute player range">
      <Param name="ProtoUnit" dispName="$$22449$$ProtoUnit" varType="protounit">Anubite</Param>
      <Param name="p1" dispName="lowest player" VarType="string">1</Param>
      <Param name="p2" dispName="highest player" VarType="string">4</Param>
      <Param name="Field" dispName="$$23943$$Field" varType="pufield">0</Param>
      <Param name="Amount" dispName="Amount" VarType="string">1.0</Param>
      <Command>trQuestVarSet("PlayerID", %p1%);</Command>
      <Command>while(%p2%>=trQuestVarGet("PlayerID")) {</Command>
  <Command>if(%Field% == 6){</Command>
  <Command>trModifyProtounit("%ProtoUnit%", 1*trQuestVarGet("playerID"), %Field%, -9999999999999999999.0);</Command>
      <Command>trModifyProtounit("%ProtoUnit%", 1*trQuestVarGet("playerID"), %Field%, %Amount% - 1);</Command>
  <Command>} else if(%Field% == 5 || %Field% == 7 || %Field% == 10 || %Field% == 13){</Command>
  <Command>trModifyProtounit("%ProtoUnit%", 1*trQuestVarGet("playerID"), %Field%, 2147483648.0);</Command>
  <Command>trModifyProtounit("%ProtoUnit%", 1*trQuestVarGet("playerID"), %Field%, 2147483648.0);</Command>
  <Command>trModifyProtounit("%ProtoUnit%", 1*trQuestVarGet("playerID"), %Field%, %Amount%);</Command>
  <Command>} else {</Command>
      <Command>trModifyProtounit("%ProtoUnit%", 1*trQuestVarGet("playerID"), %Field%, 9999999999999999999.0);</Command>
      <Command>trModifyProtounit("%ProtoUnit%", 1*trQuestVarGet("playerID"), %Field%, -9999999999999999999.0);</Command>
      <Command>trModifyProtounit("%ProtoUnit%", 1*trQuestVarGet("playerID"), %Field%, %Amount%);</Command>
  <Command>}</Command>
      <Command>trQuestVarSet("PlayerID", trQuestVarGet("PlayerID")+1);}</Command>
   </Effect>

As for how it works - I am not really sure but essentially if you overflow the integer field it seems to go to the same value regardless by how much, then I just need to normalise to 0 before setting the actual value.

NOTE: I don't know if this improvement will work in the non EE version as the handling of overflow may be different.

[This message has been edited by nottud (edited 01-06-2019 @ 07:39 AM).]