Triggger regulation, mutli-building unit reqs, and specific retraining

[The Great Khan of Rome]

First off, I want somebody to look at this:

monitor_event FactionTurnStart 
			 and I_TurnNumber > 9
			 if RandomPercent = 3
				if I_EventCounter CANNONS_huevent = 0
						historic_event CANNONS
						set_counter CANNONS_huevent 1
			end_if
		end_if
end_monitor

What I'm doing here, is trying to restrict the number of times the event occurs, as this event unlocks cannons. I'm working with SS 6.4. I'm wondering to see if I can do it with this logic, rather than using and I_EventCounter to regulate the firings of triggers like this. Here's what I attempted to do last time:

monitor_event FactionTurnStart 
			 and I_EventCounter HALF_PLATE_ARMOR_huevent = 0
			 and I_TurnNumber > 4
			 if RandomPercent = 3
						historic_event HALF_PLATE_ARMOR
						set_counter HALF_PLATE_ARMOR_huevent 1
			end_if
end_monitor

This throws up an error when firing: "don't recognise this token: and", thus messing up the whole script.

Another thing I'm doing is requiring units to have different buildings in order to train them. My logic is that the base building that being castle_barracks, barracks, stables, etc., provide base repen, and then another building, say professional_military or gunsmith, provides the capacity for the unit.

The last question is that are specific retraining units possible? Assume I want to retrain a unit like Peasant Crossbowmen from the archery_range, so that it has +1 experience. How would I go about doing that?
Here's what I think would work:

recruit_pool "Peasant Crossbowmen"  0   0  0  1  requires factions { france, hre, spain, aragon, portugal, milan, venice, papal_states, }

[Gigantus]

The 'and' issue is fairly simple if you look at the 'normal' way of writing the code:

monitor_event FactionTurnStart and I_TurnNumber > 9
             ifand RandomPercent = 3
                ifand I_EventCounter CANNONS_huevent = 0
                        historic_event CANNONS
                        set_counter CANNONS_huevent 1
                end_if
            end_if
end_monitor

I am having trouble understanding what you are trying to achieve here: the corrected monitor will fire when the random percent is met, display the historic event and then set a counter to avoid triggering again. Which is rather wasteful unless you somewhere in the script reset that event counter again. Underneath the short version and a terminated monitor, eg will fire once and then never fire again as the monitor is disabled:

monitor_event FactionTurnStart I_TurnNumber > 9
    and RandomPercent = 3
    historic_event CANNONS
    terminate_monitor
end_monitor

Your recruiting will not work as there will be no pool - you need to set the max pool as well as the refresh rate. The experience is the last number as you have set correctly.

[The Great Khan of Rome]

The 'and' issue is fairly simple if you look at the 'normal' way of writing the code:

monitor_event FactionTurnStart and I_TurnNumber > 9
             ifand RandomPercent = 3
                ifand I_EventCounter CANNONS_huevent = 0
                        historic_event CANNONS
                        set_counter CANNONS_huevent 1
                end_if
            end_if
end_monitor

I am having trouble understanding what you are trying to achieve here: the corrected monitor will fire when the random percent is met, display the historic event and then set a counter to avoid triggering again. Which is rather wasteful unless you somewhere in the script reset that event counter again. Underneath the short version and a terminated monitor, eg will fire once and then never fire again as the monitor is disabled:

monitor_event FactionTurnStart I_TurnNumber > 9
    and RandomPercent = 3
    historic_event CANNONS
    terminate_monitor
end_monitor

Your recruiting will not work as there will be no pool - you need to set the max pool as well as the refresh rate. The experience is the last number as you have set correctly.

Ok, thanks. I've been on and off coding for a while, so I'm rusty when it comes to things like code structure.

My assumption going into it is that when the monitor_event triggers fire, the monitor_event would terminate automatically, rather than through a command like terminate_monitor.

So will this work for retraining the unit, but not the ability to recruit it?

recruit_pool "Peasant Crossbowmen" 0 1 2 1 requires factions { france, hre, spain, aragon, portugal, milan, venice, papal_states, }

[Gigantus]

A monitor will never terminate on it's own, it has to be terminated. Otherwise it will get checked again every time the event (FactionTurnStart) happens - which can be up to 31 times per round in this case. Which puts a load on turn times, hence monitors that are not repeating should be terminated after use.

Recruiting: you cannot retrain a unit to gain experience - that can only happen when you initially train\recruit it. What will happen is that the new soldiers will have that experience and then an average value gets determined between the 'old' experience soldier count and the 'new' soldier count.
Retraining\'filling up' only can be done by keeping the pool number below 1, eg 0.999 - then the 'new' soldiers will get that experience as per above.

Example: 20 soldiers with 3 experience get retrained and gain 40 soldier with 1 experience. The average will fall down to 1.5 (I think) which will be displayed as 1.

[The Great Khan of Rome]

I'm thinking about fresh recruits here, not those sent into battle and have gained experience through that. It's mostly an excuse so that you don't have to deal with the risk of trying to get xp via battles.

[Gigantus]

Well, then it's a standard recruiting entry with the XP (last number) elevated.

First number - automatic pool when the building gets constructed
Second number - max pool
Third number - pool refresh rate
Last number - XP