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[dlamey8015]

I was just wondering if it was possible to make a turn event occur a set number of turns after another event occurs.

[Snow]

Umm..... I don't really know. I want to say you can't, but you might be able to do something with conditionals....

The only way I can see it happening is with my small knowledge, you have an event (now known as event 0xYY) that happens on turn 5, 6, 7 and so on, with the same event ID. Then you set a condition that event 0xYY only takes place if event 0xZZ has been activated, and make it so that event 0xYY hasn't been activated so that it checks again next turn. The problem is that you don't really know how many turns it will happen after, since someone could activate event 0xZZ on turn one, making him wait 5 turns, OR someone could activate it on turn 8, so event 0xYY would never happen (in theory you could just keep going until turn 99 though).

I'm guessing this other way won't work for you, but if you're talking about two turn events you could just make two separate events, say one on turn 2 and one on turn 7 if you want 5 turns to pass between them.

[Fire Blazer]

I'm not sure what Snow was saying but I'm guessing it was something like

event A happens turns 1-255
event B happens whenever

event A:

if event B has happened
if event ID 1 has not been triggered
set event ID 1 to triggered
else event ID HAS been triggered
activate event
else event B has NOT happened, do nothing
end event

you would have to add stuff like

"if event ID 1 has not been triggered
set event ID 1 to triggered
else event ID HAS been triggered"

for every turn such that it records a new event ID for every turn but only records the turns after an event happens

you could also do this much easier using ASM

[SmashedFish]

I'm not terribly good with conditionals yet, so none of this may work, but my C++ backgroud was yelling at me to add the following:

Say you want event B to happen 3 turns after event A, and it's something the player triggers, so you have no idea when it would start.

if event Z has triggered:
activate event B
else if event Y has been triggered:
activate event Z
else if event X has been triggered:
activate event Y
else if event A has been triggered:
activate event X

The basic idea is that event A is what the player does, which sets a flag. Event X sets the flag for event Y, which sets the flag for event Z, which sets the flag for event B, which is what you want to happen three turns later. I'm not sure if eventing uses the same sort of IF/ELSE shenanigans as C++, but if so, you want them using else ifs and in reverse order of the order they need to trigger in to be sure that only one happens per turn.