Trade Unit Game Turn Zero Error

[sman1975]

Hello,

Am working on a scenario mod, and wanted to provide the player civs some trade units at the start of the scenario. Used a cargo ship, saw some surprising numbers:



I established a trade route - just to check - and yes, these routes really do yield -110530 research a turn!

No gold for you!!!!


I didn't establish any more routes, and by Game Turn 1, the numbers magically returned to the positive numbers that looked more or less like they should.

I realize this has something to do with the game not being set up to accommodate cargo ships sailing on GT 0. But Caravans also yield some interesting numbers, too:




Fair enough. But short of using LUA to spawn cargo units on GT 1, does anyone have any ideas about how to provide "safe" cargo units at game start?

Thanks!

 

[LeeS]

I can't remember off the top of my head anymore if it does but check to see if WorldBuilder has an option to "exhaust" a unit's moves in the unit editor as part of the map so they cannot do anything on turn 0.

 

[sman1975]

@LeeS - actually, I think that's a pretty good suggestion. I'm trying to open WorldBuilder but ever since that #%$(*&^ new loader Steam slapped on Civ V a day or so ago - I can't open WB for some reason...

Researching now...

I suppose, if worse comes to worst, I could slap a quick LUA routine to fire at PlayerDoTurn, check for GT 0 (Edit - but then again, this doesn't fire on GT 0, does it?), then set moves to 0 for all trade units.

Hopefully, WB will come through. If I ever get there....

Thanks!


EDIT - I was finally able to open WB. Had to clear game cache, then restart WB in DX9...

Unfortunately, I didn't see anything about setting moves to 0. There's Name, Health & Experience text boxes, and Fortified/Embarked/Garrisoned radio buttons.

I think I'll just kill the trade units, give a little extra gold at game start, and call it a day...

 

[whoward69]

You don't need PlayerDoTurn to fire on GT 0. Just have a Lua function that executes as part of the script when it loads, have that check for GT 0, and do whatever you need to do.