Scenario Design

Scripting of Storm Altar With Activation Costs

Posted by: Damon Rellik(12-19-2002) on the AOW2 Scenario Forum

I took "Magog's" Altar Script a bit further and have come up with how to pay for each activation cost plus that you can't go negative in payment.

Event Main:

Type: Storm
Activate: Always
XYL: Coordinates of the storm
Storm type: Choose kind of storm you want to use.
Random range: Range of the storm
Source player: Trigger player

Trigger: Enter area
Players: Select the players who are allowed to activate the storm.
XYL: Coordinates for activation place
Radius: 0
Stopmovement: True

Conditions: And Flagged
Conditions: And Mana

Then, in the Condition field:

First Condition:
Type: Flagged
FlagID: 1

Second Condition:
Type: Mana
Players: Select the player(s)
ManaMin: 200 (for instance) or the amount of mana that is minimal required to trigger the storm
ManaMax: a very high number (I use 99999)

Then, use a new Event:

Type: Control Flag
Activate: Always
FlagID: 1
Active: True
Trigger: New Turn
Players: Select player

Again, a new Event:

Type: Control Flag
Activate: Always
FlagID: 1
Active: False
Trigger: Enter Area
Players: Select player(s)
XYL: Coordinates for the altar

Last new Event:

Type: Mana Reward
Activate: Always
Players: Select player who should pay
ManaMin: -100 (yes, that is a minus sign)
ManaMax: -100 (in this way you pay 200 for each activation)
Trigger: Enter Area
Players: Select player(s)
XYL: Coordinates altar

Conditions: And flagged

Then, in the Condition field:

Type: Flagged
FlagID: 1

So, you now got an altar which gives one blast a turn plus payment of 200 mana and 200 mana required to even start blasting.

(Discussion on this script can be found here.)