Since RE:RC is entering another major phase of development, the first since August gave us 1.43, I know I have a few problems to solve.

First and foremost is the location limit keeping the map down. The situation is as follows:
Each civilian currently requires its own location where it is stationed and rescued from. This robs the map of 20-30 locations.
I have no player to use as a rescue-able solve this problem, and since anyone in Force 1 can rescue a civ with any unit they have I'm not sure what to do about this. There is also the problem that there are times when P12 civs will be running around that aren't supposed to be rescue-able like the rest of them.
Anyone have an idea for a trigger system to replace the current location using method?

Switches.
I need some way to find out which switches are being used and which are not. Due to both me and PK owning a substantial amount of triggers in the map, I'm not sure which switches are in use and which are not. I need a better way to find out rather than going through each and every trigger to see if its using a switch and what for.

All help is appreciated, and will hopefully get the new map out faster.

About the civs: Place all the non-running-around civs for P11. Create a trigger that centers a location on a P11 civ and gives it to P10. Then create a trigger (that runs for the same player that runs the first trigger) that checks if P1 has a unit at the location and give the civ to P1 if he does, and repeat this trigger for all the other Force 1 players. If no one has a unit at the location, give the civ to P10. Then make one last trigger: If P11 Commands Exactly 0 Terran Civilian, then give all the P10 civs to P11.

Mind typing that out in a trigger actions/conditions phrasing? It's rather hard to understand at current, though I do get the gist of what you're saying. ;O

Conditions.

Player X brings at least 1 civilian to location 'Anywhere'

Actions.

Center location 'Civ Change' on 1 Civilian owned by player X at location 'Anywhere'

Wait 0 Mili's.

Give 1 Civilian at location 'Civ Change' for player X to player Y.

Perserve Trigger.

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Conditions.

Player X Brings exactly 0 civilian to location anywhere.

Player Y Brings at least 1 Civilian to location anywhere.

Actions.

Give all Civilians owned by player Y at location anywhere to player X.

Perserve Trigger.

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Player 1 brings at least 1 any unit to Civ Change.

Player Y Brings at least 1 Civilian to Civ Change.

Actions.

Give all civilian owned by player Y at location Civ Change to player 1.

Perserve Trigger.
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I think this will work.. If there are any obvious problems please tell me.

Yah, like that. I can't see any problems.

Its the 0ms wait really needed?

Probably not, Are you totally incapable of testing that?

Was just asking, I'm being lazy right now.

For the last trigger use Current Player:

Force 1
Conditions:
Current player brings at least 1 men to 'Civ Change'
Actions:
Give all Civ owned by Player X at 'Civ Change' to Current Player
Preserve

Yeah I was just giving him the basic layout, he can mess with the players and shit.

About civilans:
You can use 2 locations to scan hrough all of them (two instead of one in case there are two civilans that are close to eachother). One location is the one that detects any rescuer-unit, and the second one is 0x0. You can scan through all the civilans within one trigger cycle and give them back, so you don't even need a special player for that.

Say P12 owns the civilans and P11 is used for scanning (you can use any non-human player for scanning actually, even if he is used for different things... as long as he doesen't have any civilans for other purposes located in the 'battle arena' location). Location 'Detect' is the rescue location, and '0x0' is the in-case location.

Trig1:
Players: P8
Cond: P12 brings atleast 1 civilan to 'battle arena'
Actions:
center '0x0' on civilan owned by P12 in battle arena
center 'detect' on civilan owned by P12 in '0x0'
give all civilan in '0x0' to P11
Preserve

Trigs1-6
Players: P8
Cond:
P1 brings atleast 1 any unit to 'detect'
Actions:
Give all civilan owned by P11 at '0x0' to P1
Preserve
[repeat this trigger for all human players. Sorry, I didn't map for some time, so I don't exactly remember how would force triggers behave here. Maybe by using them, you can cut the trigger amount. I suggested this to be safe of any errors]

The group of 7 triggers consisting of Trig1 and Trigs1-6 is copied for the amount of civilans and at the end of those 7*30 triggers, you place a trigger that gives all the civilans back to P12.

About the switches: you can copy your triggers into something like Notepad++ and use the search function to find all conditions and actions that contain 'switch' in them.

Hope this helped.

I tried to make the civ system work but unfortunately it does not.
Triggs:



(Done for 1-6.)

Halp? Do I have to set P11/P10 to anything special in their owners/race?

Excalibur, you might get a lag useing such concept... Be carefull not to overdo.

About finding out switches it is easy. Copy all your triggers to some text editor (Notepad++) and look for a string "Switch N" (if you have not renamed them of course).

About the system:
I'd love to find out if it will lag or not, unfortunately I need help getting it to work. Check the post.

About the switches:
Not good enough. I've considered it but I am not going to go through every switch and make a list of whats used and what isn't If there isn't a program that does it, I'll have to make one that will.

Farty solved the Switch problem, and the civ system still isn't working.