On Keeping Digitalis Supported

[rytan451]

I'm working on a CRPL feature that would involve Digitalis never decaying due to a lack of support from an emitter or suitable CRPL core. Of course, the easiest (naive) method would be to spam the entire digitalis growth area with invisible digitalis-supporting CRPL cores (which, if I am not mistaken, do not spawn in digitalis by themselves). This seems suboptimal to me.

Instead, what I tried to do was to have a master core create supporting cores whenever it detected unsupported digitalis anywhere on the map. It is easy to code the supporting core.

Spoiler

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# DigiSupport.crpl

once
Self CONST_SUPPORTSDIGITALIS TRUE SetUnitAttribute
Self "main" "NONE" SetImage
Self CONST_DESTROYMODE 0 SetUnitAttribute
Self CONST_TAKEMAPSPACE FALSE SetUnitAttribute
Self CONST_NULLIFIERDAMAGES FALSE SetUnitAttribute
Self CONST_SNIPERTARGET FALSE SetUnitAttribute
Self CONST_BEAMTARGET FALSE SetUnitAttribute
Self CONST_COUNTSFORVICTORY FALSE SetUnitAttribute
Self CONST_CREATEPZ FALSE SetUnitAttribute
endonce

CurrentCoords GetDigitalis eq0 if
  Self 0 Destroy
endif

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But finding appropriate times to create them is a challenge. I attempted using IsDigitalisConnected in something like this:

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I J IsDigitalisConnected not if
  "CRPLCORE" I J CreateUnit ->unit
  <-unit "DigiSupport.crpl" AddScriptToUnit
endif


However, what happened was that every tile with digitalis ended up with a DigiSupport core.

(I've mentioned this in another unrelated thread)

I am not looking for a way to fix the multitude of DigiSupport cores. I am looking for alternate ways to support all the digitalis on the map.

Does anyone have any ideas?

(If I'm not supposed to post two topics so quickly, sorry.)

[Builder17]

As long as core doesn't have any script but all other than "supports digitalis" one are unchecked, it shouldn't lag :)

(Master script should set correct settings to all other cores)

Please reply with test map if it doesn't work correctly :)

[Grabz]

As long as core doesn't have any script but all other than "supports digitalis" one are unchecked, it shouldn't lag :)

It will if you're placing thousands of cores. Even by itself, a core is a pretty heavyweight object compared to a map cell.