Let me add some more here. And I really hope someone can help me.
We already have triggers in Starbow making workers automatically try to find a new patch if one is currently occupied. All that should be needed is to put that behaviour as part of an "if" loop.
If no other patches are open (not sure how to make that) then wait by the patch, else goto open patch.
You can look at the triggers by opening the "Starbow HoTS Final" map from the EU server at the editor. It's version 1.64 or so that is the latest.
Allow me to elaborate on how SC2 mining works and what I want to try for Starbow.
SC2: The mining time for SC2 allows for "paring", but this is no more than mining when the field is open for it since one worker will be done by the time the second gets there. Now here is the important part (and I did some testing): If worker A is going to mine from a mineral field occupied by worker B, it will do one of two things. It will wait until worker B is done if worker be is soon done (I do not have the exact values but I think it is less than a second), OR it wil try to find an open mineral patch if worker B has more than that time left to mine.
What I want: I want workers to try another patch regardless of how much time worker B has left. (Which we already have implemented). But I also want to add that worker A stays by the patch if all the other patches are occupied at the moment it checks if the patch by worker B has been occupied. If that made any sense....
So this will be a trigger which overrides the trigger we already have if a certain condition is fulfilled.
We are currently using the "stupid worker AI" trigger from BW which works as follows: As soon as a worker tries to harvest a mineral field, IF the field is occupied it will automatically try to find a new open field.
This makes workers less effective but makes over-saturation almost never max out.
In BroodWar however, it seemed that workers would not act this way if all mineral fields were being harvested as they tried to harvest. Then they would simply wait until the current harvester was done. This is what I want to try to add to a test map and see how the eco pans out. To be more spesific:
Can someone tell me how to make a trigger which does the following:
When a harvester tries to harvest and occupied mineral field it waits for its turn by that mineral field ONLY IF all the other mineral fields are being harvested the exact moment it is "checking" if the current field is open for harvest. It will move to another field by default if there is another mineral field open in our mod, so that trigger should not be needed.
Was that clear? I know absolutely nothing about triggers so the best for me is just to make a new map with only these triggers in them and send it to me so I can copy them over. You can use my email: [email protected]
Problem solved! Thanks for all the help!
Thanks a lot geru!
I'll have to look closer at it and learn some triggers....
If someone wants to translate this to actual triggers in a map I'd be very happy!
Let me add some more here. And I really hope someone can help me.
We already have triggers in Starbow making workers automatically try to find a new patch if one is currently occupied. All that should be needed is to put that behaviour as part of an "if" loop.
If no other patches are open (not sure how to make that) then wait by the patch, else goto open patch.
You can look at the triggers by opening the "Starbow HoTS Final" map from the EU server at the editor. It's version 1.64 or so that is the latest.
Allow me to elaborate on how SC2 mining works and what I want to try for Starbow.
SC2: The mining time for SC2 allows for "paring", but this is no more than mining when the field is open for it since one worker will be done by the time the second gets there. Now here is the important part (and I did some testing): If worker A is going to mine from a mineral field occupied by worker B, it will do one of two things. It will wait until worker B is done if worker be is soon done (I do not have the exact values but I think it is less than a second), OR it wil try to find an open mineral patch if worker B has more than that time left to mine.
What I want: I want workers to try another patch regardless of how much time worker B has left. (Which we already have implemented). But I also want to add that worker A stays by the patch if all the other patches are occupied at the moment it checks if the patch by worker B has been occupied. If that made any sense....
So this will be a trigger which overrides the trigger we already have if a certain condition is fulfilled.
Hello!
I am helping work on the SC2 mod named Starbow. You can read more about it here: www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=304955
We are currently using the "stupid worker AI" trigger from BW which works as follows: As soon as a worker tries to harvest a mineral field, IF the field is occupied it will automatically try to find a new open field.
This makes workers less effective but makes over-saturation almost never max out.
In BroodWar however, it seemed that workers would not act this way if all mineral fields were being harvested as they tried to harvest. Then they would simply wait until the current harvester was done. This is what I want to try to add to a test map and see how the eco pans out. To be more spesific:
Can someone tell me how to make a trigger which does the following:
When a harvester tries to harvest and occupied mineral field it waits for its turn by that mineral field ONLY IF all the other mineral fields are being harvested the exact moment it is "checking" if the current field is open for harvest. It will move to another field by default if there is another mineral field open in our mod, so that trigger should not be needed.
Was that clear? I know absolutely nothing about triggers so the best for me is just to make a new map with only these triggers in them and send it to me so I can copy them over. You can use my email: [email protected]
Cheers!