Spawning squads regardless of popcap requirements

Jump back to quoted post12 Nov 2017, 21:26 PMLugie

Cant you just set the reinforcement action's min pop-cap to 1 or 0? The normal squad will still spawn and take up pop-cap even if there isn't enough to allocate. If not, a possible cheeky workaround: make the reinforcement action delayed, so that when it actually runs the fake squad is already gone and not taking up any pop-cap.

Jump back to quoted post13 Nov 2017, 13:12 PMsherlock

Potentially, there is also a way to just have the same button for the lieutenant have no cost the first time it is used, not sure.

The moment the lieutenant_spawner (costs 200MP 50FU etc) is complete, it yields the player the lieutenant-dispathched upgrade (to unlock the tier), spawns an actual lieutenant squad and dies.
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I haven't managed to find a workaround for this workaround, yet, and I might have to pull this feature out of the patch.

Jump back to quoted post13 Nov 2017, 13:20 PMHater

I'm not familiar with modding tools, but pure logic suggests me the workaround for workaround for workaround here. Let your lieutenant_spawner (8pop) spawns not the lieutenant squad (8pop) but another dummy thing (0pop) which will spawn the lieutenant. Is it possible or even if so it will be too complicated?

Jump back to quoted post13 Nov 2017, 15:09 PMSneakEye

I read your question a few days ago, but couldn't find any solution. However, I just got this idea with only one squad and only one upgrade.

1) The building calls-in the squad.
2) The lieutenant entity has default higher costs (fuel + mp - the mp costs of the other 4 men)
3) The squad adds the (player owned) upgrade only the first time when he spawns.
4) That upgrade modifies the costs of that lieutenant entity to the original manpower costs.
(The British 5th member upgrade uses the same costs modifiers)
5) The build time can also be modified if needed.

I hope this helps! (I haven't tried it )