If...Then Statements in the XML

[The Neon Peon]

Concise description:

• Update the XML to allow map makers to use "if...then" statements.

Specifics:

• I have no clue how the site is coded, so I wouldn't know and specifics.

This will improve the following aspects of the site:

• Options for new maps are diminishing. We need some new gameplay.
• An "if... then" statement can be used to do a whole ton of stuff. It would create more new gameplay possibilities than any other addition to the xml.

[AndyDufresne]

A batch of new XML updates is planned---probably before the end of the year. And as always, I think the Foundry Discussions forum has topics regarding requests/ideas for new XML options.


--Andy

[the.killing.44]

A batch of new XML updates is planned---probably before the end of the year. And as always, I think the Foundry Discussions forum has topics regarding requests/ideas for new XML options.


--Andy

Yeah there are topics … but they've been locked for reasons unbeknownst to me and in spite of my arguments. Also, your "probably" implies in the 2011-13 range. *sigh*

[AndyDufresne]

Pretty sure no, Killing. The C.A.'s have dredged through the suggestions of past, since the last major XML update, and I think Lack has already picked out which ones he will be doing, before the year is out.


--Andy

[the.killing.44]

Awesome!

[john9blue]

This would be amazing.

[Mr_Adams]

you mena like "if player A holds teritories a and b, then a can attack c"?

[the.killing.44]

you mena like "if player A holds teritories a and b, then a can attack c"?

Yeah. "If player holds tert a, +2 added;" "If player holds terts a and b, +2 added to a;" etc. Conditional phrases.

[natty dread]

Yeah there are topics … but they've been locked for reasons unbeknownst to me and in spite of my arguments.

... says the guy who's campaigning to lock down the whole foundry...

[yeti_c]

You need to suggest an example XML framework before this even gets looked at.

C.

For example

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<if>
  <components>
    <territory>dad</territory>
    <territory>mum</territory>
  </components>
  <then>
    <territory>
      <name>dad</name>
      <borders>
        <border>john</border>
        <border>james</border>
      </border>
    </territory>
    <territory>
      <name>mum</name>
      <borders>
        <border>john</border>
        <border>james</border>
      </border>
    </territory>
  </then>
</if>

<territory>
  <name>dad</name>
  <borders>
  </border>
</territory>

<territory>
  <name>mum</name>
  <borders>
  </border>
</territory>


In my example - dad and mum don't border their sons (James & John) unless you hold both of them...

C.