Interactive choice

[TJ]

I have not seen this in any game I have played, but is there anything in the scripting language that will pop up a dialog box that allows a choice?

I am thinking about, for example, a captain making a one time offer for cash of his services (and his ship and/or crew) at some point during the game.

[FieryDove]

In documentation .txt there are the below listed that might fit the bill:

-Random events (it's often best if random events provide some kind of choice to the user, having positive negative effects, and are perhaps optional).
       
-Events displayed with messages or option dialogs, sounds, and voices.

- One-time or multi-part "mini-story" events.

It should be doable methinks.

Cheers,
FD

[TJ]

Those are not exactly what I am looking for. I would like a pop up with two buttons, one for Yes and one for No. The script could then take action either way depending on the choice.

Example: Say Spain is at war with France. You are neutral with both. A Spanish representative comes to you with an offer to ally with them. If you accept, they become your patron, letters of marquee, etc. If you do not relations instantly turn Hostile. You could then follow up with an event where France heard about you turning down Spain and then offers to become your Patron. Do you see where I am going?

[Charlemagne]

TJ

I beleive there are examples of what you want in the add-on scenario you get when you register called Spanish Inquisition. I'll post one example from that file:

rule priest_demands_three
{
   frequency day;

   conditions
   {
                   game_tick > 4000;
      num_characters_of_type("skel") > 0;
      num_characters_of_type ("spri") > 0;
      demand_level == 2;
      is_asserted("demand_three_tick") == false || game_tick > demand_three_tick;
   }
   actions
   {
      
      action assert_int { name: "demand_three_tick"; value: game_tick + 2000; }
      action create_message_dialog
           {
                  title: "Demand by the Inquisition";
           
                  body: "Inquisitors insist on an Exorcism of your skeletons. If you agree,fear all over the island will decline.";
                  pictureID: EVENT_EDICT_RAISE;
                  option1_label: "Oh well, I can build more decor.";
                  option1_rule: "exorcise_skeletons";
                  option2_label: "No way! Fear is critical!";
                  option2_rule: "increase_demands";
           
              }
   }
}

Basically the actions include reference to other rules which would be invoked when the player takes that option. So of course, you would write those other rules as frequency invokation;

[TJ]

Yes, exactly what I was looking for. I should have remembered seeing that in that scenario.

[jonedwards]

Yep, yep. That's right, you want to use create_message_dialog. You can chain a sequence of option message dialogs, play sounds when popping up or dismissing the dialog,  and I think potentially do a lot of fun stuff.

[Captain Bligh]

Here is 3 of a dozen that I have made so far. Working on a mercenary one where you get paid for number of captives and ship's sunk by your employer. Having a hrd time with that one, only been taking programming classes for 3 month's.

"Ally" has spain and england at war and grants you a letter of marque and money, commodities and captives to join their side.( You need to start the war in your script yourself.)

"French Trader" sells you rum, beer, cigars and pastries once you have built the required buildings and have 2000 plus gold in the treasury.

"Dutch Trader" sells you goods that raise pirate satisfaction by 2 points in 1 of 4 fields if you have enough gold in your treasury.(Might want to adjust prices to balance gameplay, if you do, change the conditions to match highest price.)

I have tested these and they do work. If you find any issues let me know so I can fix them please.

[Captain Bligh]

My apologies to anyone who used the other events, I copied the wrong file. This is the correct one which does work.