promotion for combat bonus on flat land?

[davidlallen]

I would like to make an XML promotion which gives a combat percentage bonus on flat land: desert, plains, grassland, tundra where there is no hill, jungle or forest. This represents an advantage a fast car would have on wide open terrain.

In the promotion schema, we have iCombatPercentage, iHillsAttack, TerrainAttack and FeatureAttack. But there is no TerrainFeatureAttack. I can get partway by defining a positive iCombatPercentage, and then three negative values for iHillsAttack, FeatureAttack on Jungle, and FeatureAttack on Forest. However, there is a double negative on a forested hill, which I don't want. The civilopedia entry looks pretty cluttered too.

I can't quite see any way to make it work; can anybody suggest another variable or clever hack?

 

[jefmart1]

Its in the Rise of Mankind 2 mod. You may want to consider a mod mod.

Field1 and Field 2 promotions are what you want (sorry about the formatting):

<TerrainAttacks>
<TerrainAttack>
<TerrainType>TERRAIN_GRASS</TerrainType>
<iTerrainAttack>15</iTerrainAttack>
</TerrainAttack>
<TerrainAttack>
<TerrainType>TERRAIN_PLAINS</TerrainType>
<iTerrainAttack>15</iTerrainAttack>
</TerrainAttack>
</TerrainAttacks>

<TerrainDefenses>
<TerrainDefense>
<TerrainType>TERRAIN_GRASS</TerrainType>
<iTerrainDefense>15</iTerrainDefense>
</TerrainDefense>
<TerrainDefense>
<TerrainType>TERRAIN_PLAINS</TerrainType>
<iTerrainDefense>15</iTerrainDefense>
</TerrainDefense>
</TerrainDefenses>

 

[davidlallen]

Thanks for the suggestion. But it seems to me with that xml, in a grass/forest square, the unit will still get a bonus. I only want the bonus to apply when there is *no* forest, jungle or hill.

 

[Dryhad]

Thanks for the suggestion. But it seems to me with that xml, in a grass/forest square, the unit will still get a bonus. I only want the bonus to apply when there is *no* forest, jungle or hill.

Maybe a negative bonus for those features, which is balanced out by the bonus for being on grass/plains?

 

[davidlallen]

I haven't been able to figure out a way to avoid a double negative. I could put a negative for forest, and a negative for hills, but then I wind up with a double negative for forest/hill plots. If there were a TerrainFeature element for promotions, like there is for BonusInfo, it would work. Is there some other way I can get this to work in xml?

 

[jefmart1]

Wouldn't the car BE at a disadvantage in forests and hills? Unless there was a road? And even then it would have to be on the road for there to be an advantage.

 

[davidlallen]

Maybe the double negative is not so bad; but it doesn't feel right. This is for a promotion. The promotion would make the car better on certain terrains. It would feel wrong to me, if the same promotion makes the car worse on other terrains.

 

[jefmart1]

I think realistically it would be at a disadvantage, how many times have you taken a car offroad? Through trees and over hilly/rocky terrain?

PS I have actually taken a honda civic offroad once, but there was mud everywhere after and it was only through some fields...slid all over the place.

 

[davidlallen]

It is easy enough for me to try it that way. When people discover they got a promotion which gives them a net penalty in a certain case, they may complain.

 

[jefmart1]

Good point

Not sure how you get around it then, maybe in Python?