I cannot seem to figure out why this isn't working..

Each time someone kills a unit, a unit is created for P8 (AI). And then after 3 minutes (Reduced to ~30 seconds for testing) the triggers should:

A: Give ownership to the player at the desired location.
B: Count +1 to a DC.
C: Give ownership back to P8 after all units have been accounted for all players
D: Display a leaderboard with the info
E: Restart the counter to start over.

But for some reason, I cannot see WHY the triggers aren't working.

(The properties are: Invincible and Burrowed.


(I created this when I couldn't figure out why it wasn't working, if I missed something I will remove this and the Exactly 3 deaths for the other counter)





(The Give Units is repeated for P1-P8 with necessary location/player numbers)







And a subtractor for medic.




I know the leaderboard won't show the DC of the SCV, its just a placement holder for now.

Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on May 14 2012, 6:32 pm by Oo.DaMeiN.oO.

You know there's already a leaderboard for Most Kills, yes? Perhaps you could just use that. Also, I'm sure you recognize that this setup will take place over several trigger cycles (at least one cycle for each kill of the player with the most kills).

Anyway, you were very vague on how exactly the triggers aren't working. A great way to debug the system yourself is to add a Display Text Message to each trigger, so you can see when each trigger executes, and which ones aren't behaving as expected.

Here's a few possible places you could have stumbled:
If the player kills something not worth exactly 350 in kill score, this trigger breaks. You could change it to use "At Least" and "Subtract" to make it a little safer, unless you know for sure the player won't be killing anything other than 350-point units.

This trigger has serious problems. It will only run if both Team HOT and Team COLD have at least 1 kill each. If, for example, only Player 1 has killed anything, this trigger will not run. I'm guessing this isn't the way you want the trigger to work.

Furthermore, after this trigger runs once for Player 1's area, the first and second conditions become false, so the triggers for the other players' areas will not run.

Unless you're omitting a trigger that decreases the deaths of Cave, one of these triggers will run once and then both triggers will never run again because Cave has more than 0 deaths.

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In summary, there's likely something wrong with your EndMVPCalc trigger, and your leaderboard triggers look slightly borked as well. If you need more help, you should provide much more details as to what the problem actually is (where it stops working, for example), what all your death counters represent (I assume Cave is supposed to be a timer for the leaderboard?), the results of debugging via Display Text Message, and/or posting the map itself.

Alright, sorry about not explaining everything 100%.

A: The kill score will only ever reach 350, nothing else is in the game that can be killed save that one unit (A terran ghost)

B: Will check into that trigger.

Although, I did use display text message, but only ever saw the first trigger, never even got close to the EndMVPCalc one.

As for the Cave, yes, the cave was set back to 0, just forgot to add that in.

For quicker debugging I'll post the map.

So I might of edited something from the OP, since I've still been working on this a bit. I added the creation of overlords instead of text incase it was messing up somehow? Anyways, thanks so far.. I am really, really bad at explaining things.. as my wife tells me all the time

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Hmph.. it looks like I fixed it, haha. Not sure what the initial problem was, but in the map I posted (Different trgis from OP) I added a action in the LeaderBoard(ForKIlls) that stopped it. I think I got it working. I'l lget back to you.

Found your problem:



This trigger runs immediately (and alternates with the other leaderboard before your medic DC completes), because all the conditions are true. It sets the deaths of Valkyrie to 3, so your trigger checking for 0 deaths of Valkyrie never runs (maybe you should get rid of that line? Or add a condition requiring Valkyrie deaths of exactly 1 or 2?). Your reset in the map (StartCounterForMVPCalc) is also checking for 2 deaths of Valkyrie instead of the 3 you specified in the OP.

Basically, your leaderboard trigger is preventing your calculation system from running.

Apparently I just fail at this... omg I thought I had it and then when I tried adding in the actual count it wen't AWOL again...

Like I said before, I suck at explaining and vice versa, I am a visual learner. If someone could download this map, and re-upload with it fixed I would greatly appreciate it, and I won't be just taking it and leaving I'll go over ever detail to understand where I wen't wrong.

What I want it to do:

Everytime a player gets a kill, they get +1 to their Hunter Killer unit
Everytime a player gets a flag, they get +1 to their Unclean One unit
Everytime a player gets a bonus (+5) they get +1 to their Devouring One unit
Everytime a player dies they get +1 to their Defiler unit

And then after x time (It will be three minutes later) and every three minutes after that, I want it to A:

Give 1 unit at a time to the appropriate player and give +x to their DC of Terran SCV.

(Kill = +1, Flag = +3, Bonus (+5) = +4, Death = -1)

And then once all of that has been distributed it gives all the player +1 Drone unit for each point. Then, displays a leaderboard who has the most Drones.

Sorry and thank you... I really cannot figure why its not working.. I've literally put over 10+ hours into this function, which is less than it took me to do all the other triggers.. so frustrating

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