When a city is founded 6 plots around it instantly become owned by the founder. I'm looking for a way to get owner of those plots before the city was founded. I've tried SerialEventCityCreated and OnCanSaveUnit but when they fire the plots are already owned by city.
Get plot owner before city is founded
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DarkScythe
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When a settler (or any unit with a 'consumable' mission) activates its mission, the unit itself is killed during that process.
I don't remember the exact timing, but you may be able to use the unit prekill event to catch when the settler unit is about to be destroyed. Unfortunately, I don't know if the game already sets up the city or not before this happens.
I don't remember the exact timing, but you may be able to use the unit prekill event to catch when the settler unit is about to be destroyed. Unfortunately, I don't know if the game already sets up the city or not before this happens.
DarkScythe
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Hmm.
In that case, I'm afraid I don't know.
Only other method I can think of is a very inelegant, extremely resource-intensive, brute-force method -- use UnitSetXY to track settlers via some type of unique ID, and scan the plots around them as they move and cache/store them in case they plop a City.
Unfortunately, this would mean you're firing a 7-plot scan every time a settler moves anywhere on the map.
In that case, I'm afraid I don't know.
Only other method I can think of is a very inelegant, extremely resource-intensive, brute-force method -- use UnitSetXY to track settlers via some type of unique ID, and scan the plots around them as they move and cache/store them in case they plop a City.
Unfortunately, this would mean you're firing a 7-plot scan every time a settler moves anywhere on the map.
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I am pretty sure that founding new cities doesn't steal adjacent tiles of other players.
If you want only to know If it grabbed the plots from any other city of player, try:
Plot:GetOwnershipDuration()
However, if Player buy a plot and then settle there in the same turn, it will be useless.
If you want to know the previous City owner of the plot. Much harder.
If you want only to know If it grabbed the plots from any other city of player, try:
Plot:GetOwnershipDuration()
However, if Player buy a plot and then settle there in the same turn, it will be useless.
If you want to know the previous City owner of the plot. Much harder.
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removing 6 surrounding plots (or more in case of Shoshone trait) from city area at city founding should be no problem in most cases: set ownership to none if owned by player at city founding, since plots are only acquired by city only if previously unowned (restored to none) OR if previously part of another city owned by the same player (too bad)
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