Yes, by tying in a report trait to the trigger it will notify players in the chat window. Alternatively you can add a at start marker that keeps track of this that is permanently visible on the board. Ill write you up a walkthrough shortly
_____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Neumann Sent: Friday, June 29, 2007 11:55 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [vassalengine] Counting pieces on a board Tim, While this is very cool that it can do this automatically, taking it out of the player's hands, I still want to be sure that the players know what happened (the terror level went up, etc.) Is there a way to pop-up a message so the players are aware of these things, or at the very least send a message to the chat window (I'm afraid that might be missed, though). Thanks, Dave ________________________________ From: vassalengine@ <mailto:vassalengine%40yahoogroups.com> yahoogroups.com [mailto:vassalengine@ <mailto:vassalengine%40yahoogroups.com> yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Tim McCaron Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 3:35 PM To: vassalengine@ <mailto:vassalengine%40yahoogroups.com> yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [vassalengine] Counting pieces on a board I should add, that by doing it this way there is no need to display the values, as you have now built in the rule for the engine and it will keep track of it for you and enforce it automatically Less for players to need to see/do. _____ From: vassalengine@ <mailto:vassalengine%40yahoogroups.com> yahoogroups.com <mailto:vassalengine%40yahoogroups.com> [mailto:vassalengine@ <mailto:vassalengine%40yahoogroups.com> yahoogroups.com <mailto:vassalengine%40yahoogroups.com> ] On Behalf Of Tim McCaron Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 3:31 PM To: vassalengine@ <mailto:vassalengine%40yahoogroups.com> yahoogroups.com <mailto:vassalengine%40yahoogroups.com> Subject: RE: [vassalengine] Counting pieces on a board Hi Dave, Give the monsters a dynamic property value of 1 and a passive trigger (key command link to the DP) to increase a global property whenever they enter/exit the main board. Also give them another passive trigger to fire a send to location (outskirts) when the adjusting global property exceeds the predefined value of another global property that is set by players at game start. Same can be done for Gates Tim _____ From: vassalengine@ <mailto:vassalengine%40yahoogroups.com> yahoogroups.com [mailto:vassalengine@ <mailto:vassalengine%40yahoogroups.com> yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of David Neumann Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 3:05 PM To: vassalengine@ <mailto:vassalengine%40yahoogroups.com> yahoogroups.com Subject: [vassalengine] Counting pieces on a board Hi all, I'm making a module (still) that has limits to how many certain pieces can be on the board at any one time, and if more pieces than that level enter the board they need to be sent to a different location. Is there some way to 'count' these pieces (they're cards) as they leave the deck and are placed on the board? And someway to display this number to the players (such as creating a new board with a counter that increments/decrements as these pieces are placed/removed from the board)? The value changes depending on the number of players as well, so I would need to be able to change the upper limit based on the number of players. Any help? Thanks in advance, Dave Neumann neumann2706@ <mailto:neumann2706%40gmail.com> gmail.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
