Grinders

DaFool · Defense Minister **Joined**: 07 Nov 2006

I can't think of an instance of something similiar to this that exists in generals, with the exception of the Saboteur, but I think JJ_ said that was hardcoded. If it wasn't, It could have worked beautifully.

If the unit enters the Grinder building, spawn a crate containing x amount of money, and have the building pick it up.

Maybe there's some other kind of module I can play around with. Have the unit enter the building, have the unit die/destroyed, grant money somehow.

sigh....soylent green for yuri!
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JJ_ · Light Infantry **Joined**: 12 Sep 2008

I actually thought about it before. To make a Grinder, make it able to contain units using garrison logic that only allows allied units. The Grinder itself would emit a weapon with KILL_GARRISON damage type (whatever the exact name is) constantly as a FireWeaponUpdate (again not sure about the exact name). The weapon will kill any unit that garrisons it. The weapon will have a special death type, and every single unit is coded so that the death type will spawn a crate x% (set in the create, so you'll need a lot of crates) of the unit value which will be picked up by the Grinder. The animation will be played as a transition state from garrisoned to normal.

Well another theory. Let's see how well it works.

DaFool · Defense Minister **Joined**: 07 Nov 2006

I was thinking of a way to get around all those crates; manipulating the bounty hunter code somehow. What do you think of this? When you bounty hunt, you basically keep a percentage of the value of the unit you kill, so if I can make this exclusive to the grinder, then when a unit enters the grinder and gets killed, you get a percentage of it's costs.
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JJ_ · Light Infantry **Joined**: 12 Sep 2008

I don't think you can make the bounty logic affect only one unit. Though, I can see how you can make it work by putting the module into the Grinder so that you earn money by killing instead of sending stuff into it, though I think once you built it, the bounty effect will still stay even when the Grinder is destroyed, so another idea is to make it into a power of some sort.