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I'm hoping someone can help me with one of 2 problems. Take your pick.
I have 2 teams made up of several classes but I want one of the following attributes to apply only to 1 class from 1 team. eg. all_inf_engineer. It needs to be a playable character so it's not as easy as putting the engineer on a 3rd team.

Either:
1. Engineer is unable to pickup the flag in CTF but his teammates can. NB. Forcing him to drop it after picking it up isn't the solution I need.

or
2. Engineer is worth more teampoints per kill in TDM than his teammates.

I'd appreciate any help with this.
Perhaps I am confusing the semantics of class, unit, player etc so if you can explain that too that's a bonus.
Cheers


:EDIT - a distant but acceptable 3rd would be having a spawn path solely for one class, where the rest of the team is forced to spawn elsewhere.

Class is what you're talking about when you want all "engineers" or "snipers" to be affected. At any rate, the answer to both your questions is in the LUA scripts. The first is defined in one of the CTF scripts in dataABC/Common/scripts, where there is a condition set that members of each team cannot pick up their own flags. You can probably adapt this code into your own mission LUA, changing the team parameter to class (see the LUA scripting documentation for more details on this). I'm not entirely sure about the second, but if you start poking around the LUAs in the dataABC/Common/scripts folder, you're bound to find code that you can adapt to suit your needs.

Edit: What would be simpler is to have an ODF paramiter you can set for the engineer, but I'm not sure if there are paramiters for the conditions you've presented.

I thought there was an ODF parameter that said the class couldn't pick up flags, but I don't know what it is.

Take a look at points.lua. That is where all the easy to change point values are. To only give extra points to engineer killers, I think you will have to do a bit more work. Use a OnCharacterDeath() to determine when an engineer is killed. Give its killer some points in the way players get points for destroying objectives in space maps. Checkout a space lua to figure out how to do that.