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29 — Destroyed by anything [not infiltrate]

Fires when the tagged object is booked as a kill or otherwise consumed, except where a soldier is consumed walking into a structure or a vehicle.

Editor data
Numeric ID
29
Engine ID
TEVENT_DESTROYED_ANY_X
Editor name
Destroyed by anything [not infiltrate]
Need token
NEED_NONE
Parameters
None
Attachment
object
INI example
[Events]
<TriggerID>=1,29,0,0

What the exception covers

Section titled “What the exception covers”

Walking a soldier into a structure or onto a vehicle it is aimed at ends with the soldier deleted, whether it captured anything, restored anything, spied on anything or did nothing at all. Destroyed by anything is sprung on the soldier’s own tag on the way out, and this event is not. That single omission is the whole difference between the two.

Everything else the pair sees is identical, and it is wider than a destruction. A change of ownership is booked as a kill and so is a structure sold back, and both forms answer to either. The one thing neither form sees afterward is the vehicle a thief drove off in — a vehicle carrying a tag transferred to it that way springs no destruction event when it is later destroyed.

Caveats
  • The exception covers two moments and no others, and both are a tagged soldier being consumed as it walks in. Everything that springs the unqualified form springs this one as well.
  • The exception belongs to the soldier, not to what it walks into. A structure or a vehicle that changes hands is booked as a kill and springs both forms on whatever tag it is carrying at that moment.
  • No attacker is needed. Selling a structure, an object changing hands, a vehicle sinking and an aircraft an ion storm brings down all reach the event.
  • A vehicle that has been taken over by infantry springs no destruction event when it later dies, provided the tag it is then carrying is a transferable one.