subfactions as the result of upgrades Options

[Lin Kuei Ominae]

See what can and can't be implemented (just to tell you now, you cannot have an upgrade as a prerequisite, at least not in TS).

I took this for granted for a long time until I tested it a moment ago for myself and it worked.
I was able to make a building available as soon as i placed down the GAPOWRUP upgrade just with Prerequisite=GAPOWRUP.

So this means that we could have a conyard with 1 upgrade that defines which subfaction we want to use.
e.g.
Nod Conyard has Nod upgrade or Cabal upgrade
GDI Conyard has GDI upgrade or Forgotten upgrade

The AI won't use this, but online games can use this for a much bigger variety of games. And this is imo the best solution to make multiple sides work with the limited possibilities of TS.

[Clazzy]

The problem is, that you have to build right after GAPOWR the Powerup to get the new buildoptions. If you build something between the PowerPlant and its powerup it doesn't work anymore.

This must be why it never seemed to work. I was always under the impression that it was impossible in TS, it was easy to do in RA2 with the PrerequisiteOverride= tag, though. Does this problem also include the construction of units? If you build the upgradable building, a vehicle and then the upgrade does it work?

[Lin Kuei Ominae]

yep, this works. i tested it with building an infantry before the upgrade and it still worked.