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Territory Tracking and Respawn | Territory Tracking and Respawn | ||
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This tutorial lays out a combination of factory structures that work in tandem. | This tutorial lays out a combination of factory structures that work in tandem. | ||
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The object of the game is to be the last player with units in play. "In Play" refers to units within any territory marked 4 or 5 in the image above. | The object of the game is to be the last player with units in play. "In Play" refers to units within any territory marked 4 or 5 in the image above. | ||
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- | This is a little overwhelming, | + | These 3 territories are the basis for a tracking system. |
- | This is the capital city. It allows you to be eliminated immediately, and can be included in a continent to guarantee that it only applies to a specific player. | + | T2 functions as an On/Off switch. It's either occupied or empty, 1 or 0, On or Off, True or False. |
- | It's going to start by doing something odd. It's going to attempt to autocapture T2 with a +1>> | + | T1 is trying |
- | T2 exists as a True or False statement, or an On/Off switch. | + | When T2 is On, or occupied, it can be included in a continent that says " |
- | T4 is the grid in which we're trying | + | In our case, we want T2 to turn on when the player does NOT own T4. If the unit in T4 dies, activate the respawn |
- | Now, if I have 2 territories in grid 4, then I want to turn T2 OFF. | + | In order to do that we have T1 turn T2 On, but if the player DOES own T4, turn T2 Off instead. |
- | Now I have 3 states. | + | T1, the player' |
- | So T1 is trying | + | To offset this, we need to make T4 a -1 autocapture factory (>>) from T4 to T2. |
- | So, if we have a unit in T4, we need to have it give -1>> to T2 to counter | + | Now T2 is the target of 2 separate factories, |
- | T1 +1>> T2 <<-1 (T4 + T1) = T2 stays off. | + | If you do NOT own territory T4, you no longer get the -1>> |
- | Now, if I lose all of my units in T4... I no longer have any -1>> to prevent T1 from turning on T2... so it turns on. | + | {{: |
- | Now that T2 is on, I know that I've lost units, and I can include T2 in a continent that respawns a unit on the board! | + | If a player owns T4: |
- | Note: T2 has a -1 to itself, so that once you do respawn, it reverts to its default OFF state. | + | (T1) +1>> |
- | Let's include T3. | + | If the player does Not own T4, |
+ | (T1) +1>> T2 = On | ||
- | {{: | + | That means T2 only turns on, when the player loses ownership of T4, and it turns off if the player regains ownership of T4. |
+ | If you create a grid of territories that all have the T4 structure of (T1 + T4a) -1>> T2, (T1 + T4b) -1>> T2... then T2 will only turn on when the player no longer owns ANY territories in the grid. | ||
- | T3 is pretty much identical to T2, but it tracks if there are 2 units, instead | + | This happens because every T4 represents a -1, and your capital only ever gives +1. The only time the T1 +1>> |
- | In order to do this T1 gives +2>> to T3. So unless it gets two separate | + | The T2 -1> |
+ | Before we go much further into T2, let's expand this tracking system to track 2 units at once. | ||
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+ | Now we've added T3 to track a second unit. Technically we're tracking territories, | ||
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+ | First we must consider that if we are tracking 2 units at a time, then T4 will now provide up to two separate -1>> T2 bonuses. | ||
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+ | If the bonus is -2, then the player has 2 territories in Grid 4. If it's -1, one unit has been lost. If there is no bonus (-0?), both units have been lost. | ||
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+ | To counteract that we send +2 from T1, instead of +1 like we do for T2. Let's see what happens now. | ||
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+ | If the player has 2 units in T4: | ||
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+ | T1 +2>> T3, T4a -1>> T3, and T4b -1>> T3, for a net of 0 units, or Off. | ||
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+ | If the player has 1 unit in T4: | ||
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+ | T1 +2>> T3, T4a -1>> T3, for a net of +1 unit, or On. | ||
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+ | If the player has 0 units in T4: | ||
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+ | T1 +2>> T3, for a net of +2 units, but the territory has a max of 1, so it's On with 1 unit. | ||
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+ | So if the player has lost at least 1 unit, T3 will turn on. | ||
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+ | T2, now with only +1, will only turn on if the player owns no T4 territories. | ||
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+ | T1 +1>> T2 is only 1 or more if there is no T4 -1>> T2, or when the player has lost 2 units. | ||
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+ | No we can say, if the player has T3, he has lost at least one unit. If the player has T2 AND T3, the player has lost both units. | ||
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+ | If the play has neither T2 or T3, the player has the expected 2 units still on the board. | ||
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+ | Spawn time! | ||
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+ | If the player owns T2, Take T8. T2 +1>> T8. | ||
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+ | Oh, but if I already have T8, remove it. T8 -1> T8. Note: this can be standard (>) instead of autocapture (>>) because it only works if it's owned already. | ||
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+ | Since these bonuses and switch flipping happens when continent bonuses are registered, these changes are only made at the start of the player' | ||
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+ | This means, when I lose a unit, at the start of my first turn with a unit missing, I take T2. So it will take another turn before T2's continent will trigger. | ||
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+ | You can bypass this delay, by making T2 and T8 the same territory, so as soon as you capture T2, it can attack back to the board, like T8 can, instead of waiting for it to be used in a continent. | ||
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+ | In this case, I want the delay. | ||
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+ | Also, T8 has a maximum of 1 unit, and HAS to have a maximum of 1 unit for this very sensitive system to work... so you can only spawn one unit per turn with this system as is. | ||
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+ | This can also be changed, but I don't want to for this design. | ||
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+ | The above graphic shows two spawns. | ||
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+ | Here's the whole system. | ||
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+ | Now we have a system that tracks up to two units on two separate grids, and respawns when you have at least 1 unit missing. | ||
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+ | Now we just need a win condition. | ||
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+ | The way our system works says that if a player has lost 1 unit in Grid 4, T3 turns on. If they lose both units, T2 turns on. | ||
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+ | So if the player has both, then they have no units on Grid 4. T6 and T7 means no units on Grid 5 either... | ||
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+ | If the player has all 4, they have no units left at all, and are eliminated by giving -1>> to their own capital and involuntarily surrendering. | ||
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+ | Technically you can drop T2 and T6 from this continent... but I don't want to update the graphic at the moment. | ||
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+ | Questions, comments, concerns? | ||