Gun Capture Removal

[Marching Thru Georgia]

The actual artillery capture code is not actually in the AI code. Where would the best place be to bypass this 'feature'? I want to replace this with a dead gun, or no gun at all.

[mitra76]

Is all in the hardcoded part; you can try, but I'm not sure if it works, to trigger the event eEvtDeath for the gun with TriggerEvent function when the cavalry is very near to the gun.

[Marching Thru Georgia]

What are the values for evtid parameter in TriggerEvent?

[mitra76]

set it to -1, it is not relevant in this case

[Marching Thru Georgia]

Assuming base.GetID() gives me the gun ID, this method does not seem to work. I even tried placing the TriggerEvent call at the top of CheckAllTargets. Suicide is not allowed? I can make the guns rout if the enemy comes within a certain distance but this is not an optimal solution. Any other ideas?

[mitra76]

You can try to use ModMorale ( int pts ) to set the zero the morale points, probably it will not avoid the capture but perhaps the gun will run away from the field also after the capture

[Saddletank]

I can make the guns rout if the enemy comes within a certain distance

How close can you make that? If its as little as 10 yards would that be good enough?

I'm thinking though that the gamedump then won't differentiate between routed guns and those 'routed' by capture.

[mitra76]

It depends from when the loop call the unit AI; you can check the getcharger to be sure to being charged but the aggressor can be at various distances and you cannot know how far it will be when the next check is done (the gun could be already captured).

[Marching Thru Georgia]

It depends from when the loop call the unit AI; you can check the getcharger to be sure to being charged but the aggressor can be at various distances and you cannot know how far it will be when the next check is done (the gun could be already captured).

Yes, this is what I have found. Setting the distance to 20 yds results in the guns being captured at least 50% of the time. That is not nearly good enough. It would be far better for NSD to just remove this ludicrous feature all together.

[RebBugler]

The actual artillery capture code is not actually in the AI code. Where would the best place be to bypass this 'feature'? I want to replace this with a dead gun, or no gun at all.

So, your request is to have guns 'surrender' and disappear rather than be 'captured' and manned, regardless of OOB structure?