Newbie Question

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scJazz said:
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Questions
1) Is it possible to penalize victory points for blowing up certain buildings?

Buildings alone so not have points so you can destroy as you like and not change the victory conditions. On the other hand if you wanted to make a building that destroying it WOULD cost points you could, as Pyros suggested, put an ammo dump with modified points in it and if someone destroys it would be V points added or deducted from one side or the other sides victory conditions. WHO'S victory conditions that would affect would be determined by who you buy the ammo dump for. I assume you'd want to use it to penalize the human player and stop him from using High explosives to take a building. If so put an ammo dump for P1 in that building.
I don't know if anyones actually done that before though

scJazz said:
2) Is it possible to force the AI to do certain things?

Yes, you can use waypoints to create a patrol zone. Waypoints are tricky to use for most people but if you keep in mind you should set it up so that it uses less MP than the units you plan to put on patrol you will be OK genersally ( the WP are removed one by one every turn so if you make them too long you'll have problems. If you make them a little shorter than you think they need to be that's just about perfect. You can use WP to force the AI to select a specific route through the map in the same way just keep the points a bit less than the slowest unit . Patrols are a great way to use WP as it means there is very little chance a player will encounter those troops in the same place twice


Also...

We don't encourage using non standard OOB's for sceanrios. Use the stock OOB's and then everyone will be able to play it just by clicking on it. if you build it with non standard OOB's you can GUARANTEE that 10% will forget then complain ( to us! ) that we have a "bug" in the game becasue half their forces are missing icons ( becasue you built it with your own OOB's and they didn't install them ) It's also a real PITA for players to install special OOB's for 1 sceanrio even though we've gone to great lengths to make it easier for people with our new "Manage OOB" feature.

It's always best to use the stock OOB's