Need Help Coding Custom Unit

[FrenchCorsair]

OK, here's the plan...

I'm currently making a Canadian civilization, and like any good civ, it needs a unique unit to use in-game. Given Canada's history with UN Peacekeeping, I figured using a peacekeeper would be a nice touch. But there's the rub.

Most unique combat units simply recieve a boost to their movement or combat strength, which makes sense since they are indeed combat units. However, combat is a peacekeeper's last resort. As such, I want to mod the standard (Gods and Kings) Paratrooper to bring a cool twist to the unit...

When a city-state is fighting a foreign civilization, for every Peacekeeper unit that you have positioned within the city-state's territory, you gain x-amount of repuation with that city-state -- as long as you remain friendly towards the city-state and its enemy (in other words, remain neutral in the conflict).

Obviously, this is much more complex and adding an extra movement point to a unit and calling it "unique." I've done mods before, but I have no idea how to structure the syntax for this particular mod.

I welcome any advice or input,
Thanks!
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[DonQuiche]

Hello.

Through LUA it is pretty simple. A basic approach is to register a LUA event on each end of turn, then scan all of the units of the Canadian player (player:Units()) then, for each peacekeeper, check the plot's owner, then grant reputation to the city state if it belongs to one.

But you need to use LUA, there is no other way I think.

 

[FrenchCorsair]

Thanks, I'll give it a shot!

 

[FrenchCorsair]

Wow... I greatly underestimated how complex LUA is compared to XML. I've code HTML a lot, so XML is simple for me, but LUA is another beast entirely.

Maybe I'll scale back my ambitions for the Peacekeeper for now.

 

[DonQuiche]

Well, if you're at ease with javascript it should not be that hard but if you only know html+css, indeed, it is not programming. Now if you want to I can give you an incomplete code that you will need to fill with the functions listed on the 2k wiki - there are some functions names I don't remember.