Tasks to group?

[frosties 10]

I have a couple of objectives that the players need to complete.

However it seems that the objective comes to the player locally, instead of the group/team wich makes it hard to complete tasks as a group since if someone have completed a task, noone else on the team get it as completed.

Task example:

cond:

local player

on act:

tskKillCO = player createSimpleTask ["Kill the enemy colonel hiding in the town or the surrounding areas."];    
tskKillCO setSimpleTaskDescription ["Find and eliminate the enemy commander.", "Eliminate the commander", "CO"];  
tskKillCO setTaskState "Assigned";      
taskhint ["Eliminate the commander!"];

[shuko 59]

Updating doesnt work with something like this?

cond: !alive commander

onact: tskKillCO settaskstate "succeeded"

[frosties 10]

yes, that part is working, but the problem is that each player gets the objective personally i think.

So when one player in the group completes it, the rest of the squad still has it as uncompleted.

I would like it so that if a person in a squad/side completes it it should stay complete for the entire squad/side

[shuko 59]

It will work fine as long as you make sure that the !alive or whatever information gets to each player.

[frosties 10]

if i have an entire squad that needs to be dead?

!alive Squad1 isnt working.... Only if i name one of the soldiers Squad1

[shuko 59]

{alive _x} count units squad1 < 1

[frosties 10]

thank you, will give that a go!

EDIT:

Cant get it to work, might be doing something wrong here.

Trigger -

cond:

{alive _x} count units Squad1 < 1

on act:

tskEliminateSquad1 setTaskState "Succeeded";

Im grouping Squad1 with two soldiers with:

Init:

this setGroupid ["Squad1"]

Am i missing something or doing it wrong?

Edited December 1, 2010 by Frosties

[MeIvin 10]

Hello,

in the init of your squad leader:

Squad1 = group this;

Should do the trick :)

http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Category:Scripting_Commands_ArmA2

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Kind Regards

Melvin

Edited December 1, 2010 by MelvinNor

[frosties 10]

So i dont have to put it in every unit, just the squad leader?

Does it work the same way with vehicles?

Thanks all for the help!

[shuko 59]

With AIs you only need to do it in the leader's (or any squad member's) init field.

However, for players (playable units) you should do it in every field. That's because there might be time when that slot where it is doesn't get picked, and AI get's disabled. Thus, the command doesn't get run at all.

[frosties 10]

Aah!

That explains alot, thank you!

EDIT:

Just tried it on both vehicles and infantry!, Really appreciate your help!

Edited December 1, 2010 by Frosties

[HateDread 13]

It works with all units, and it need only be in the squad leader's init field :)