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Exile is offline Exile
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Sep 2000
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Question  Old Post 31-08-2003 21:24
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The &quot;Paratroops&quot; pop-up text message; Trigger? Remove this text

I'd like to know what precisely triggers the pop-up text message that appears in the default game when a civ aquires combined arms and the paratroops unit becomes available to build.

Is it the UNIT or SLOT that triggers the pop-up?

Or is it the Combined Arms tech?

Does anyone know for certain?

Elok is offline Elok
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Land of Ramen Dragons
Mar 2003
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  Old Post 31-08-2003 22:13
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I don't know for sure, but I think it's the availability of the unit in almost all such cases. Look at the FW History of Midgard scenario and see what prerequisite the Sorcerors unit has. If I remember correctly, learning how to build the sorceror, which was in the engineers slot, caused the "you may now transform terrain" message to pop up even though the sorceror wasn't a settler type and thus couldn't do that. If the sorceror wasn't intended to be an engineer at all, which seems to be the case, I don't see why they would bother giving it the Explosives prereq, and common sense would dictate that all those kinds of messages work in the same fashion. This is just a guess/strong suspicion though.

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  Old Post 01-09-2003 00:08
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I believe that the message is linked with the unit slot for the paratrooper, rather than the combined arms tehcnology.

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Apr 2001
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  Old Post 01-09-2003 02:58
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I'm pretty sure it's the slot. The Highlanders unit triggered the message for me in your scenario.

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It's the slot.

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  Old Post 01-09-2003 07:42
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Thanks Brian.

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  Old Post 08-09-2003 00:53
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It's a nice way of adding a big text message without filling your events with it, isn't it...

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I'm not sure but il think this messages appears when u found the tech (CA or other) for the unit (Para or other)of this slot !

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No, Brian is correct. It's the slot.

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Odense, Denmark
May 2001
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  Old Post 08-09-2003 12:06
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Avatar Enlargement: We've got the solution

One drawback is that the message only appears if the tech (making the paratrooper available) is researched, and then only for a human player. AFAIR it doesn't appear if the unit becomes available as a result of a tech trade or givetech event.

See this thread : http://apolyton.net/forums/showthre...&threadid=84741

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