Scripting based on Difficulty and AI/Player

**tornnight** · June 19, 2007, 10:41 PM

Difficulty Script

Code:

declare_counter difficulty
declare_counter difficulty_easy
declare_counter difficulty_medium
declare_counter difficulty_hard
declare_counter difficulty_very_hard
declare_counter difficulty_set
 
monitor_event FactionTurnStart FactionIsLocal
 and I_CompareCounter difficulty_set = 0
 and CampaignDifficulty = easy
 
  set_event_counter difficulty_easy 1
  set_event_counter difficulty_medium 0
  set_event_counter difficulty_hard 0
  set_event_counter difficulty_very_hard 0
 
 set_counter difficulty 1
 set_counter difficulty_set 1
 
 log always Campaign Difficulty: easy
 
 terminate_monitor
end_monitor
 
monitor_event FactionTurnStart FactionIsLocal
 and I_CompareCounter difficulty_set = 0
 and CampaignDifficulty = medium
 
  set_event_counter difficulty_easy 0
  set_event_counter difficulty_medium 1
  set_event_counter difficulty_hard 0
  set_event_counter difficulty_very_hard 0
 
 set_counter difficulty 2
 set_counter difficulty_set 1
 
 log always Campaign Difficulty: medium
 
 terminate_monitor
end_monitor
 
monitor_event FactionTurnStart FactionIsLocal
 and I_CompareCounter difficulty_set = 0
 and CampaignDifficulty = hard
 
  set_event_counter difficulty_easy 0
  set_event_counter difficulty_medium 0
  set_event_counter difficulty_hard 1
  set_event_counter difficulty_very_hard 0
 
 set_counter difficulty 3
 set_counter difficulty_set 1
 
 log always Campaign Difficulty: hard
 
 terminate_monitor
end_monitor
 
monitor_event FactionTurnStart FactionIsLocal
 and I_CompareCounter difficulty_set = 0
 and CampaignDifficulty = very_hard
 
  set_event_counter difficulty_easy 0
  set_event_counter difficulty_medium 0
  set_event_counter difficulty_hard 0
  set_event_counter difficulty_very_hard 1
 
 set_counter difficulty 4
 set_counter difficulty_set 1
 
 log always Campaign Difficulty: very_hard
 
 terminate_monitor
end_monitor

AI/Player Script

Code:

 
declare_counter local_england
declare_counter ai_england
 
monitor_event FactionTurnStart FactionIsLocal
 and FactionType england
 
  set_event_counter local_england 1
  set_event_counter ai_england 0
 
 if not I_HotseatEnabled
  terminate_monitor
 end_if

end_monitor
 
monitor_event FactionTurnStart not FactionIsLocal
 and FactionType england
 
  set_event_counter local_england 0
  set_event_counter ai_england 1
 
 if not I_HotseatEnabled
  terminate_monitor
 end_if
 
end_monitor

You can also add building capabilities specific to a campaign difficulty level and depending on if it's for the AI or player.

Code:

income_bonus bonus 200 requires factions { england, } and event_counter local_england 1 and event_counter difficulty_easy 1
 
income_bonus bonus 400 requires factions { england, } and event_counter ai_england 1 and event_counter difficulty_easy 1

You can now use the difficulty counter for events that occur during the Local Faction and AI Factions. The CampaignDifficulty condition only works correctly for the Local Faction. It returns medium for AI faction events.

Code:

I_CompareCounter difficulty >= 3

**Dimitri_Harkov** · June 20, 2007, 02:45 AM

Very useful! Thanks tornnight.

**alpaca** · June 20, 2007, 03:59 PM

Hey mate,
Good of you to write this down, I'm using a very similar script but was too lazy to write about it

What do you think about putting it into the script-o-rama (with due credit of course)? I fear this thread will be buried in a fairly short time (and I'd like to collect such stuff in the script-o-rama anyways).

**tornnight** · June 20, 2007, 08:52 PM

Sure. Thats a good idea.

**alpaca** · June 21, 2007, 02:07 PM

Originally Posted by tornnight

Sure. Thats a good idea.

Ok, thanks. I added it under the how-to section.

**Klink** · June 20, 2007, 10:47 PM

What conditions are permissible in these building requirements? All of them?

**tornnight** · June 22, 2007, 08:25 AM

Originally Posted by Klink

What conditions are permissible in these building requirements? All of them?

No in fact it isn't even a subset of the conditions. It's a rather unique set.

The best place to look is the EDB Guide.

The only difference is that the event_counter condition has been added for MTW2.

**Klink** · June 22, 2007, 03:43 PM

ok, thanks.

**nikolai1962** · November 11, 2007, 09:57 PM

Just what i was looking for

**gsthoed** · July 29, 2014, 03:55 PM

1. "declare_counter local_england" and "declare_counter ai_england" are redundant, as local_england and declare_counter ai_england are event_counters

2. And here is the "modern" way: all starting monitors terminate when they have nothing to do, best compatibility with Hotseat, can be used for all the factions, less fuss.
A. Since you can't change campaign difficulty mid-game, Difficulty Script:

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B. AI/Player Script:

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Then:

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