Allow players to play their favorite tribe in scripted maps

[frankystone]

I thought this has been a feature request already but i couldn't find it…

Currently as soon an init.lua is inside the scripting-folder of a map the map is handled as a scenario. This has the disadvantage that the tribe can't be chosen by a player because the default tribe from the map is used (also random tribe).

It would be nice to allow choosing a tribe for some scripted maps. E.g. for the mp scenario Smugglers i don't see a reason why this can't be played with a players favorite tribe (except for smuggling tribe specific wares, but gold has every tribe). Another example is the mp game "Trident of Fire" which has no tribe specific scripting, afaik.

Other use cases would be to enhance a map with special things, e.g. create a "warp" field ( if a ship arrives here it get warped onto another field of the map and vice versa). Or create special areas where the height of fields are randomly increased and lowered. Or an area where felled trees get magically renewed. Something like that which doesn't need to be tribe specific, but will be fun for players.

Describe the solution you'd like
Similar to allow_diplomacy there should be a game-setting allow_tribes or similar. If set to true a player is allowed to choose his tribe for this map.
Don't know if such maps can be named "scenario" then.

Describe alternatives you've considered
None

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[bunnybot]

Mirrored on Codeberg as #CB4752.

[bunnybot]

Mirrored from Codeberg
On Fri Mar 01 19:20:42 CET 2024, Benedikt Straub (Nordfriese) wrote:

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Currently the map's player_names file defines one tribe for each player (or empty for random). I suppose we could add an "allowed_tribes" or "forbid_tribes" optional property for scenarios for each player controlled by a human, so the designer can, if he wishes, define either a whitelist or a blacklist of tribes that each player can choose from (also with an "all" option).