Inheriting Hero Abilities

**raven27679** · November 30, 2007, 07:32 PM

Hello everyone, I was playing my mod that ports the new units into vanilla along with new hero abilities and it hit me. Is there a way to make the hero attributes inheritable? Say the faction leader of a certain faction always has that ability, or not always, there could be some conditions to get them. What does the community think about that.
Sadly, I have been looking and can not think of a way to do this. Is there any interest?

**Matz** · December 02, 2007, 08:45 AM

Hey raven,

it might be neat to have hero traits inheritable, but I think it would sorta ruin the specialness they have.

Making a hero trait inheritable seems to me a bit strange as well, because they're meant as individual achievements I think.

Matz

**raven27679** · December 03, 2007, 08:51 AM

Yeah, I understand the feeling you have. I want to experiment to see if I can make the game different thats all. For factions like the byzantines, they were considered very tricky... and I thought this would portray that if the king could actually always play a trick.

**Matz** · December 06, 2007, 04:48 AM

Hahaha, that would be very cool, but I don't think it'd work to well. You could however maybe make some byzantine-only traits (think that's possible) that emphasize on tactic play.

For example maybe a trait that increases command extra when commanding cavalry, or play with authority. Most interesting could maybe be extra movement bonussess for generals, to give byzantines an edge at least on the campaign map.

Don't think the game is built for much deeper tactics in general :p. Could be wrong though!

Matz

**raven27679** · December 10, 2007, 06:22 PM

For whats its worth I figured it out. Add this to the scripts

;----------------Hero Abilities Inherit --------------------------------;

monitor_event BecomesFactionLeader FactionType byzantium
change_hero_ability byzantium leader Byzantine_Politics
end_monitor

**raven27679** · December 10, 2007, 06:40 PM

Never mind , it does not work. I had it hard coded and got confused

**BigJake** · December 10, 2007, 11:09 PM

thats to bad, woulda been great.

**raven27679** · December 14, 2007, 11:27 AM

Here is my progress now, I can not just give the abilities because they are not traits. However I can create a new general at the faction leader's death with the ability. This is not quite as good but it works, at least it keeps one person in the game who can do the ability. The general has a random name and appears outside of Constantinople. Here is the code so far.

monitor_event BecomesFactionLeader FactionType byzantium
spawn_army
faction byzantium
character random_name, named character, age 19, x 369, y 165, hero_ability Byzantine_Politics
traits LoyaltyStarter 1 , GoodCommander 1 , ReligionStarter 1, PoliticsSkill 1
unit Greek Bodyguard exp 1 armour 0 weapon_lvl 0

end
end_monitor