Need help with an Escort/Collection

I'm trying to create a take-to escort and I'd like an ambush to spawn afterwards.

If I set the escort's destination to be a collection item and I set the collection item to spawn after the escort's rescue (not escort complete), then I set the ambush to spawn when the collection was complete. I get 3 or 4 errors about circular references and multiple ambushes with the same trigger.

So far those are the only 3 objectives in the mission. If I delete the ambush I still get complaints about the escort's destination and collection's activation being invalid.

I'm not sure of the exact error after deleting the ambush but it took me to the escort's destination indicating it was wrong. I thought about removing the collections activation to mission beginning but then I could just go there and do it without the escort and the whole thing becomes silly.

I was pancaked off at that point and killed the project. A little later I calmed down and decided to come here. I don't expect I can do what I want to do but thought I'd ask.

I've run into similar situations while trying to create complex sequences. For some reason, the Architect system doesn't like it when you try to spawn objectives off one another or when you tie an ambush to an objective that is tied to another objective. I know it has something to do with dependency, but I don't know how to circumvent that.

Escorts themselves can be pretty buggy, in a lot of ways, I try and avoid them. I've also found errors popping up a number of times about "can't link that from this" when it doing so does follow logical order; however programming often doesn't work that way.

I seem to recall trying to set something to spawn once the escort is acquired (not completed) and couldn't - either the option didn't exist or that called forth those dang errors again. You're probably best off not trying for that anyways, it's just tempting fate. Plus there's always putting info in the text, "$name, you found me! Let's go, I'll show you where that mcguffin is when we get there."

Yes, that is problem exists since Escorts came in I think.

It seems to boil down to the point that if you have an Escort to Object X, the system treats the Escort as being spawned by Object X.

This would explain the observed:

> Since you can never have an Ambush and anything else spawn of the same objective completion, you cannot have an Ambush spawn from Object X, since that already has the Escort spawning from it.

> Since in the eyes of the system Object X spawns the Escort, Object X needs to be there before the Escort. So trying to make Object X pop up only once you found the Escort creates a circular dependency.

The FBI will be contacting the OP based on the thread title.

That is all.