[BTS] Longshot: any way for each unit to show the city it was built in?

[Herostratus]

I'd like to make it possible, in my mod, for each unit to somehow "know" what city it was built in, and retain that information so that the player can see it. I envision a new line somewhere (either when you click on the unit or just in the lower-left mouse-over pop-up) that says "Home City: ____"

Extra challenge: must be doable in Python only, not SDK! *And* must be multiplayer-friendly (i.e., if it causes OOS, I'm not doing it).

The fact that AI home-cities might be readable on their units is not particularly concerning to me, even though it's theoretically a minor way of cheating ("Oh, I see Abe built New Orleans").

I don't know enough about Python to begin to understand how to approach this, but I know enough about Python to feel like this request is a long shot. Anybody know if/how this could be done?

 

[Nightinggale]

You need to add a city pointer to CvUnit and add that one to savegames. The good news is that it's not a lot of work to do and will not cause OOS. The bad news is that it can only be done in the DLL.

 

[devolution]

This is already a feature in the BUG mod, check out how they do it.
CvUnit has the following member: "IDInfo m_homeCity" which is accessible by CvCity* getHomeCity() const; You could then expose this method to python.