Since my SLIC knowledge is limited, i figured i'd throw it out to those who have used it more.

Okay 1st you should create random locations on the map.
If the map was 100x100 to create a random location you could use this (in Pseudo Code - I'll post how to do it in slick [hopefully] once Ii get back from a holiday)

CreateRandomNo(1-100) -> Store it in variable i
CreateRandomNo(1-100) -> Store in variable j
Variable TempLoc = [i,j]

Now say you wanted 10 locations. A for loop should doo that

Creat loop from 1 - 10 -> Variable m
{
CreateRandomNo(1-100) -> Store it in variable i
CreateRandomNo(1-100) -> Store in variable j
Variable TempLoc[m]=[i,j]
}

Maybe that could work for random locations. The first should work, but I don't know about the second. If the second one didnt owork you could just do the first one x amount of times, and cjust change the name of the temploc varibale.

pick an event (drought, great weather, quake, plague,none)

if drought (10%)
global decrease in food

if great weather (10%)
global increase in food production

if quake (40%)
determine richter factor (1 to 7)
bombard location richter times (if city only)
determine 1 tile radius around epicenter and bombard those tiles richter/2 times (if city only)

if plague (20%)
bombard location 3 times (if city or army to simulate deaths)
determine 1 tile radius around center and bombard those tiles 2 times (if city or army to simulate deaths)
if any of the tiles are a city
infect it (gives plague a chance to spread)

that leaves 20% when nothing happens. And the majority of quakes and plagues wont hit anything and cause no damage unless the radius is enlarged

It seems that this should be doable.

code:

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#include "msg.slc"
int_t i;
int_t j;
int_t no_of_disasters;
int_t x;
int_t temp_locx[];
int_t y;
int_t temp_locy[];
HandleEvent(BeginTurn) 'DStart_F' pre 
{
	Message (1, 'AGStartA');
}
HandleEvent(BeginTurn) 'DEachTurn_F' post 
{
	if (random(3) == 1)
	{
		i = random(20);
		j = random(20);
		no_of_disasters = 2; //Change the '2' to how many natural disasters you want
		for(x = 0; x < no_of_disasters; x = x + 1) 
		{
			temp_locx[x] = i; //x value
		}
		for(y = 0; y < no_of_disasters; y = y + 1) 
		{
			temp_locy[y] = j; //y value
		}
	}
}

---

code:

---

messagebox 'AGStartA' {
	Show();
	Title(ID_AG_START_TITLE);
	Text(ID_AG_START_A);
	Button(ID_AG_BUTTON_NEXT) 
		{
			Kill();
		}
}

---

code:

---

AG_BUTTON_NEXT		 	"Next->"
AG_START_TITLE	"Natural Disasters"
AG_START_A	"Made by heardie"

---

Scenario.slc:

code:

---

//just run once when the game starts
HandleEvent(BeginTurn) 'DonStartGame' post {
	if(IsHumanPlayer(player[0])) {
		Message (g.player, 'DonTurn0');
		DisableTrigger('DonStartGame');
	}
}
messagebox 'DonTurn0' {
	Show();
	Title(ID_DON_TURN_0_TITLE);
	Text(ID_DON_TURN_0);
}

---

Scen.str:

code:

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DON_TURN_0_TITLE "Natural Disasters"
DON_TURN_0 "\nMade by Heardie"

---

Also, for droughts, would it be possible to have it actually change terrain - replace plains with deserts, for example? If so, you could add a mini-ice age/el nino trigger with similar effect.

I'm glad I'm not the only one that thinks this is viable

quote: Originally posted by Matthew Watson on 12-30-2000 11:04 AM Maybe it could represent a tsunami - the code could search for all swamps within a certain radius and turn them into sea.

I had figured any flatland would be hit by the tital wave.

If we cant do weather via SLIC, how about randomly generated wonders. WONDER_DROUGHT that reduces global food, or WONDER_GREAT_WEATHER that increases it?

quote: Originally posted by Locutus on 01-01-2001 01:55 PM Well, randomness isn't a problem since SLIC has a Random function. If a quake happened in or near a city you could specify the chance a building is destroyed (even make this specific for certain types or buildings or whatever) and cycle through all buildings and wonders in the city and use the Random function to test if it would be destroyed or not. This is just as unpredicable as the bombardment function, but much more tweakable (e.g. you could make a Bank much more likely to survive than a Factory or whatever).

Ah, now I understand. Yes, that would be more preferrable to bombardment. i had thought you meant that if there was a quake and the city has a bank then to destroy it. I didnt realize that you could cycle thru the buildings in a city and give it a percentage that it would be destroyed. We could have a building called IMPROVEMENT_BUILDING_CODE that would minimize the damage.

Unless Mr Ogre is a pathelogical lie-er(sp?) I'm fairly sure of that 64 limit on buildings and wonders AFAIK there's no limit on advances or units though (and IIRC Mr Ogre confirmed that).

Alpha,

code:

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for(m = 0; m <= player.cities; m = m + 1) 
		{
			CityFoodDelta(city[m]) = .75 * CityFoodDelta(city[m])
		}

---

quote: Originally posted by Harlan on 01-06-2001 04:31 PM Alpha, If its like CTP1, any file that starts with a number can be changed, but you have to change that number too. So if it was the Units.txt, add three new units and then add three to that start number. Luckily, many files now no longer use that number, which is great, cos it was a real pain to keep that straight.

I was just making a joke If I had more time, I'd have sat down with the SLIC doc and be doing it myself. But since coding and analyzing crappy code is what I do all day, I mostly just want to have fun when I play. unfortunately, I just cant turn off all those "what if" thoughts

I think this would be good, since it would give us a reason to keep building all those theaters and stuff that dont seem to make a differnce.

Outside of that, does anyone know how to increase the unhappyness due to overcrowding?

Thanks,

quote: Originally posted by Bluevoss on 01-06-2001 08:06 PM What I would like to see (outside of normal disasters) are some disasters political in nature. Say that your happyness drops 5-10 points in every city, and any city that drops into unrest has a good chance of going barbarian. This might be considered a civil war, the death of a powerful ruler, or something. I think this would be good, since it would give us a reason to keep building all those theaters and stuff that dont seem to make a differnce. Outside of that, does anyone know how to increase the unhappyness due to overcrowding? Thanks,

in const.txt, REVOLUTION_LEVEL 60. By increasing this number you can make cities revolt more often. I suspect from your questions that you are playing on the easier levels. The more difficult levels require some attention to happines. You might also avoid building happiness wonders.

And if i get that all done, I'll also have a go at bombarding but i doubt that i will.

Can that work?

Then all we do is create them, and then after x amount of turns remove them.

quote: Originally posted by Radical_Manuvr on 01-06-2001 10:37 PM AW, Looking at the 4th post on this thread it appears you want an 80% chance of some type of natural disaster to occur every turn. Is that correct? I suppose that is the easy part anyway and could be modified by anyone to have x% chance of the disaster routine on each turn once the other code is written. I'm pretty sure I can get a randomly placed bombardment for the earthquakes. The drought/great weather part seems as though it may be more complicated, but I'll give it a shot. I doubt I could do the tidal wave thing and honestly won't even try. I remember reading something about changing terrain could have unpredictable or undesirable results so I'm not going to mess with that.

being that turns represent so many years, I figure theres a reasonable chance that somewhere in the world a disaster would happen almost every turn. alot of them will be in unpopulated areas or quakes so small that they dont do much damage. Would it be easy just to do weather every turn and to put out a message only when its really bad/good? Just randomly increase/decrease food levels worldwide since from one year to the next crop outputs vary, sometimes drastically.

quote: Originally posted by heardie on 01-07-2001 12:29 AM RE: To do food production Drought: Create a building that decrease food by 25% IMPROVE_DROUGHT { DefaultIcon ICON_IMPROVE_GRANARY Description DESCRIPTION_IMPROVE_GRANARY EnableAdvance ADVANCE_AGRICULTURE ProductionCost 0 Upkeep 0 FoodPercent -0.25 } Surplus: Create building increase by 25% IMPROVE_SURPLUS { DefaultIcon ICON_IMPROVE_GRANARY Description DESCRIPTION_IMPROVE_GRANARY EnableAdvance ADVANCE_AGRICULTURE ProductionCost 0 Upkeep 0 FoodPercent 0.25 } Can that work? Then all we do is create them, and then after x amount of turns remove them. Is that right?

That sure sounds like it could work. Then all SLIC would have to do is go thru the cities and add droughts occasionally. But can we auctually track what turn an improvement was built so we know when to kill it?