[BTS Module] Slaves

[frekk]

I think that they maybe have support costs. I can find the tag <bMilitarySupport> which means if it is supported as a Military Unit. The Slave has that tag set to 0 but the worker to so I think that the slave has the same support cost as the worker.

Unfortunately that flag only sets military support costs, not support costs per unit. You still pay 1 gold per unit per round, including for workers. Military units have additional costs depending on what civics you have and whether they are in your own territory or not. Some civics like pacifism can add more costs, and then you pay extra if you're not in your own territory (for military units). But anyway there is still a support cost for a unit whether that flag is checked or not.

 

[Chrill]

I've toyed around with the capuring of units under certain criteras as well. The basic python code is presented below, won't work in other mods as it's designed for my own, however the idea of it is quite simple and can easily be modified. It works like this: if you won the battle, and have a military civic called slave army (can easily be changed to LABOR / SLAVERY) and the unitcombat type is either MELEE, GUN or SPEAR (can easily be modified) and after that a check to see if the winning unit doesn't have a promotion called "ENSLAVE". Last a random number is calculated (25% chance of enslavement).

Now after the battle is won and all the above criterias have been met a unit (the type is the defeated unit type) is created with 25% health that cannot move this turn and the promotion ENSLAVE (basically indicating it's an enslaved unit and cannot enslave others thus the check above).

The coding is quite crude as I'm no expert, but it works and shows it's not all that difficult to add in cveventmanager. Just change a few criterias and what kind of unit you want from the battle (iUnit). I Hope all this could give some inspiration

	def onCombatResult(self, argsList):
		'Combat Result'
		pWinner,pLoser = argsList
		playerX = PyPlayer(pWinner.getOwner())
		unitX = PyInfo.UnitInfo(pWinner.getUnitType())
		playerY = PyPlayer(pLoser.getOwner())
		unitY = PyInfo.UnitInfo(pLoser.getUnitType())
## Enslaver! ##
		pPlayer = gc.getPlayer(pWinner.getOwner())
		if pPlayer.getCivics(gc.getInfoTypeForString('CIVICOPTION_MILITARY')) == gc.getInfoTypeForString('CIVIC_SLAVE_ARMY'):
			if (pWinner.getUnitCombatType() == gc.getInfoTypeForString("UNITCOMBAT_MELEE")) or (pWinner.getUnitCombatType() == gc.getInfoTypeForString("UNITCOMBAT_GUN")) or (pWinner.getUnitCombatType() == gc.getInfoTypeForString("UNITCOMBAT_SPEAR")):
				if not pWinner.isHasPromotion(gc.getInfoTypeForString('PROMOTION_ENSLAVE')):
					if CyGame().getSorenRandNum(100, "Bob") <= 25:
						iUnit = pLoser.getUnitType()
						newUnit = pPlayer.initUnit(iUnit, pWinner.getX(), pWinner.getY(), UnitAITypes.NO_UNITAI, DirectionTypes.NO_DIRECTION)
						newUnit.setHasPromotion(gc.getInfoTypeForString('PROMOTION_ENSLAVE'), True)	
						newUnit.finishMoves()
						newUnit.setDamage(75, False)
## Enslaver! ##
		if (not self.__LOG_COMBAT):
			return
		if playerX and playerX and unitX and playerY:
			CvUtil.pyPrint('Player %d Civilization %s Unit %s has defeated Player %d Civilization %s Unit %s' 
				%(playerX.getID(), playerX.getCivilizationName(), unitX.getDescription(), 
				playerY.getID(), playerY.getCivilizationName(), unitY.getDescription()))

 

[OrionVeteran]

I have two ideas for thought:

1. There should be function to eliminate all of the slave units, when switching over to the emancipation civic. This would simulate freedom for all and the end of slavery. Thus, no more slaves, as they all disappear.

2. There should be function to limit the production of slave units to only the slavery civic. If you switch away from the slavery civic, you can't produce any more slaves. The existing slaves remain until used up or disappear when switching to the emancipation civic.


Orion Veteran

 

[frekk]

Chrill (or anyone else who might know):

How would you set a specific unit type using that code, rather than just a unit of the type that was defeated?

I get the impression it's contained in this line:

newUnit = pPlayer.initUnit(iUnit, pWinner.getX(), pWinner.getY(), UnitAITypes.NO_UNITAI, DirectionTypes.NO_DIRECTION)

But I don't know Python well enough to alter that to what I want. I gather that it's set by Y() ... would it be like this?:

newUnit = pPlayer.initUnit(iUnit, pWinner.getX(), "UNIT_WORKER", UnitAITypes.NO_UNITAI, DirectionTypes.NO_DIRECTION)

 

[The_J]

X and Y is only the position for the new unit.

What you want:

newUnit = pPlayer.initUnit(gc.getInfoTypeForString( 'UNIT_WHATEVER' ), pWinner.getX(), pWinner.getY(), UnitAITypes.NO_UNITAI, DirectionTypes.NO_DIRECTION)

 

[Gurra09]

2. There should be function to limit the production of slave units to only the slavery civic. If you switch away from the slavery civic, you can't produce any more slaves. The existing slaves remain until used up or disappear when switching to the emancipation civic.

Slaves have always only been able to be produced if using the Slavery Civic. But that's coded in Python and doesn't show up in the Civilopedia.

 

[frekk]

X and Y is only the position for the new unit.

What you want:

newUnit = pPlayer.initUnit(gc.getInfoTypeForString( 'UNIT_WHATEVER' ), pWinner.getX(), pWinner.getY(), UnitAITypes.NO_UNITAI, DirectionTypes.NO_DIRECTION)

Perfect ... thanks ... I got it working great.

I even managed to figure out how to restrict it so that only certain types of units could be enslaved. Once I got it going, I noticed that it would produce slaves from panthers, catapults, and when a worker or settler was captured you'd get the worker plus a slave (at 100% odds). So ... I restricted it to reasonable unit types (mounted, melee, archery, gun, and spear). Only these kinds of units will produce a slave when defeated, now.

In case anyone's interested:

## Enslaver! ##
		pPlayer = gc.getPlayer(pWinner.getOwner())
		if pPlayer.getCivics(gc.getInfoTypeForString('CIVICOPTION_LABOR')) == gc.getInfoTypeForString('CIVIC_SLAVERY'):
			if (pWinner.getUnitCombatType() == gc.getInfoTypeForString("UNITCOMBAT_MELEE")) or (pWinner.getUnitCombatType() == gc.getInfoTypeForString("UNITCOMBAT_GUN")) or (pWinner.getUnitCombatType() == gc.getInfoTypeForString("UNITCOMBAT_SPEAR")) or (pWinner.getUnitCombatType() == gc.getInfoTypeForString("UNITCOMBAT_MOUNTED")) or (pWinner.getUnitCombatType() == gc.getInfoTypeForString("UNITCOMBAT_ARCHER")):
				if (unitY.getUnitCombatType() == gc.getInfoTypeForString("UNITCOMBAT_MELEE")) or (pWinner.getUnitCombatType() == gc.getInfoTypeForString("UNITCOMBAT_GUN")) or (pWinner.getUnitCombatType() == gc.getInfoTypeForString("UNITCOMBAT_SPEAR")) or (pWinner.getUnitCombatType() == gc.getInfoTypeForString("UNITCOMBAT_MOUNTED")) or (pWinner.getUnitCombatType() == gc.getInfoTypeForString("UNITCOMBAT_ARCHER")):
					if CyGame().getSorenRandNum(100, "Bob") <= 5:
						iUnit = pLoser.getUnitType()
						newUnit = pPlayer.initUnit(gc.getInfoTypeForString( 'UNIT_SLAVE' ), pWinner.getX(), pWinner.getY(), UnitAITypes.NO_UNITAI, DirectionTypes.NO_DIRECTION)
						newUnit.finishMoves()
## Enslaver! ##

Oh yeah, and I reduced it to 5% chance.

There's just one thing more that would make it perfect, and that would be a message to come up.

EDIT; if anyone decides to use this, I noticed one little error. Chrill must have been using it with some sort of mod that featured a new unitcombat class, namely UNITCOMBAT_SPEAR. Such does not exist in the base game, so omit it from the above unless you've got a UNITCOMBAT_SPEAR.

 

[The_J]

Try

CyInterface().addMessage(pWinner.getOwner(),False,15,CyTranslator().getText("TXT_KEY_WHATEVERIWANT",()),'',0,'Art/Interface/Buttons/General/happy_person.dds',ColorTypes(44), pWinner.getX(), pWinner.getY(), True,True)

The button can also be changed to whatever you want.



And good work for the first time .

 

[Gurra09]

I have uploaded a new file with a few text changes.

Two lines are added for the Slave in the Civilopedia:

Destroyed upon Completion of Work
Requires Slavery

One line is added for Slavery in the Civilopedia and the Civics Screen:

Required to Train Slave

One line is added for the Work Boat in the Civilopedia:

Destroyed upon Completion of Work

 

[Melendor]

Suggestions:

1 – Gladiators: you can use a slave as gladiator in any city with colosseum. It would give +1 per 10 turns; 2% of the times you would receive a gladiator after that time (axeman or maceman);

2 – Sacrifice: it would generate 25. Paganism and/or pagan temple would be necessary.

 

[Chrill]

I experienced some really strange Ai behavior from my workers when i tried the concept of the above mod (especially adding the XML changes that add slave specífic improvements). First of all the ai trains slaves in an endless loop really, they never build workers if they can. And regular workers did some really weird stuff like never building cottages or farms ever, just roads. Only after removing all slave specific improvements the worker ai worked "properly" again...

I would suggest having the slave non-buildable and only availible from succesful combat (as the AI won't understand the differance when building a lave and a worker other than the cost as of it as of now...) and have it build all the same improvements the worker can, but perhaps decreasing the workrate.

Adding some python code could kill of slaves when switching from slavery.