Limiting minion selection

[frumple]

I am working on a template that grants a minion. I can get it to offer the minion easy enough, but I want to limit what minions they can select to certain subtypes and crs.


I am guessing that the field I want to modify is tRaceExpr in Totals which I transition to via.

hero.minion[MINION_ID].child[Totals].field[tRaceExpr].text

For subtypes I figure I just have to append " & Subtype.SUBTYPEID"

and for cr append " & fieldval:tCR <= CRMAX"

However I cannot get the timing right. Either I get no effect or I get a nothing to select error.

 

[AndrewD2]

How late have you tried assigning it? Usually when you're overwriting the expression you need to do it late in final

 

[frumple]

Final/5000

I am wondering if I a choosing the wrong tag expression since races are not tagged with Subtype.XXXX until they are placed in the hero but have them bootstrapped to the race.

 

[AndrewD2]

Possibly also with class abilities when overwriting the expression you need to do it late like Final 99999999 (8 9s)

 

[frumple]

Well Final/5000 looks to add the statements. The issue does look to be that I am selecting BaseRaces that haven't been assigned tags for subtypes. Do you know if there is a way in a tag expression to check if we have a specific thing bootstrapped by it?

 

[frumple]

I think I got it...

In this case I want everything with the swarm subtype

~ assemble list of swarms
var swarmList as string
foreach thing in BaseRace
  var tmp as string
  tmp = "thingid." & eachthing.idstring
  var cnt as number
  foreach bootstrap in eachthing where "component.Subtype & thingid.stSwarm"
      swarmList = splice(swarmList,tmp, " | ")
  nexteach
nexteach

swarmList = "& (" & swarmList & ") & fieldval:rCR <= " & crLimit

hero.minion[MINIONID].child[Totals].field[tRaceExpr].text &= swarmList