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[yakuzaBoss]

Hi people, yesterday I removed a lot of timers from many summon powers such as Balrog, Shade Wolf, Wyrm, Watcher, cavebats, spiderlings, crebain etc.

Now there's a problem: for some summon powers I want to delete the timer but at the same time I want to disable the button on the palantir until they are dead. For example Tom Bombadil, I really don't want to see an army of Tom Bombadils, because Tom Bombadil is only one.

How to stop the button from rigenerating itself until Tom Bombadil is dead?

[Ridder Geel]

That right there is a good question...

I'm not certain if this can be done via INI code, this depends, see if your powers are paused from recharging if you destroy all your fortresses after casting the spell.

If so I may have a way to do this cleanly without resorting to map scripts (which is the worst method you could possibly want..)

[yakuzaBoss]

Uhm that's too complicated...if I destroy the fortress, the power continues to recharge. I was thinking...and if I simply change that timer? For example: the recharging time of the summon power is 5 minutes. I set the life time of Tom Bombadil to 4 minutes and 45 seconds so to have only one Tom Bombadil in any time and 15 seconds of waiting from one to the other

Could it be a good solution?

[Ridder Geel]

Well yes that would work

Is that not the case with the original unmodded powers?

[Lusta]

This might work:

Purchuasing the power gives you an upgrade, that let you summon Tom.

When Tom Summoned he will have similar like this:

 

Behavior = RemoveUpgradeUpgrade ModuleTag_RemoveRing

TriggeredBy = Upgrade_MenFaction Upgrade_ElfFaction Upgrade_DwarfFaction

UpgradeToRemove = Upgrade_RingHero Upgrade_FortressRingHero

RemoveFromAllPlayerObjects = Yes

SuppressEvaEventForRemoval = Yes 

End

 

When Tom dies, he give the upgrade back by an unseen ocl spawn that dies fast.

[yakuzaBoss]

 

This might work:

Purchuasing the power gives you an upgrade, that let you summon Tom.

When Tom Summoned he will have similar like this:

 

Behavior = RemoveUpgradeUpgrade ModuleTag_RemoveRing

TriggeredBy = Upgrade_MenFaction Upgrade_ElfFaction Upgrade_DwarfFaction

UpgradeToRemove = Upgrade_RingHero Upgrade_FortressRingHero

RemoveFromAllPlayerObjects = Yes

SuppressEvaEventForRemoval = Yes 

End

 

When Tom dies, he give the upgrade back by an unseen ocl spawn that dies fast.

 

Thanks I'll try it later