Giving gold to all of your team via actions - multiplayer question

[Grendal-777]

Giving gold or setting player gold is fairly straight forward, has anyone found the mechanic for giving gold to other team members via actions?

Example: Each time team 1 member kills team 2 member instead of player getting x gold, everyone on their team gets x gold.

It would have to be sent to server and out to each client.
Just curious if this has been used before and can't find reference in search.

 

[Crossbow Joe]

In FPW there is a chest which when activated will give gold to everyone in the area. I am sure that can be altered in some way

 

[Vornne]

This is easy; just search in module_scripts.py for "money_management_after_agent_death", and modify to your taste. You don't have to add any new network messages or anything; gold is one of the things that is updated on the clients automatically.

 

[Grendal-777]

In FPW there is a chest which when activated will give gold to everyone in the area. I am sure that can be altered in some way

I haven't found where any of the scripts from FPW have been released publicly.

This is easy; just search in module_scripts.py for "money_management_after_agent_death", and modify to your taste. You don't have to add any new network messages or anything; gold is one of the things that is updated on the clients automatically.

Glad to know gold is handled server side (course now that I think about it, would be easy to hack otherwise).
I read through the money_management_after_agent_death, I am looking to create gold that is then added to all members of only your faction and it looks to be more about distributing percentages. I have some python coding skills but not much M&B modified coding skills and could really use an example if anyone has tried this in the past.

 

[Grendal-777]

Ok, made some progress thanks to help from Wookie Warlord, but code not working as intended.

When I access the prop it maxes out my player gold instead of adding the amount in the :profit variable.
Maybe someone who hasn't stared it it as long as I can point out where I have erred.

Spoiler

check_objectxused = (ti_on_scene_prop_use,
    [
      (store_trigger_param_1, ":agent_id"),
      (multiplayer_is_server),
      (assign, ":profit", 50),
      (agent_get_player_id,":player_no",":agent_id"),
      (player_get_team_no,  ":myteam", ":player_no"),
      (get_max_players, ":num_players"),

          (try_for_range,":player",1,":num_players"), #was 0 but t_f_r comments says use 1 for players
          (player_get_team_no, ":team", ":player"),
  (eq, ":team", ":myteam"),
      (try_begin),
              (player_is_active, ":player_no"),
      (player_get_gold, ":player_gold", ":player_no"),
      (val_add, ":player_gold", ":profit"),
              (player_set_gold, ":player_no", ":player_gold", multi_max_gold_that_can_be_stored),
              (try_end),
          (try_end),
 
])

edit: put code in spoiler, spell checking

 

[Somebody]

Your loop variable is player, yet you're using player_no (the one that activated the prop) to test for activity and to fetch (and subsequently add) gold. So the player that activated the scene prop will get profit*number of players on his/her team.

 

[Grendal-777]

Thank you!
Fixing my variable problem pointed out by Somebody, along with changing my "(try_for_range,":player_no",1,":num_players")" to "(try_for_range,":player_no",0,":num_players")" (it was skipping the accessing player then running thru team)
It seems to be functioning as intended. I won't be 100% sure till I can get in with an actual team member later today, but I am pretty confident it will work.

Finished code:

Spoiler

check_objectxused = (ti_on_scene_prop_use,
    [
      (store_trigger_param_1, ":agent_id"),

      (multiplayer_is_server),

      (assign, ":profit", 50),
      (agent_get_player_id,":player_no",":agent_id"),
      (player_is_active, ":player_no"),
      (player_get_team_no,  ":myteam", ":player_no"),
      (get_max_players, ":num_players"),
          (try_for_range,":player_no",0,":num_players"),
              (player_get_team_no, ":team", ":player_no"),
      (eq, ":team", ":myteam"),
        (try_begin),
                    (player_get_gold, ":player_gold", ":player_no"),
            (val_add, ":player_gold", ":profit"),
                    (player_set_gold, ":player_no", ":player_gold", multi_max_gold_that_can_be_stored),
                (try_end),
          (try_end),
])

 

[Vornne]

The fact that skipping player 0 (the server) makes a difference means you are testing with a client hosted server; I reccomend you do all script related testing with a dedicated server, as client hosted servers are a special case that won't show a lot of possible problems with the code. You can copy the dedicated server executable with a startup script and bat file to your client install directory, and run it from there - so you don't need to copy across your module all the time - and then start it on the same computer as you are using for the client.

Though this might not be workable if you have a large scene and not much computer memory, as it will load things twice when the server is not client hosted.