Free Units

OneWingedAngel · 02-06-2003, 05:09 PM

I've been messing around with the Ore Ref prices and stats(for the American economy-no tank balancing).

I've noticed that when I halved the price to 1000, the ref costs 1400, the same as a miner.

Anyway around this besides cloning a miner?

Marshall7a · 02-06-2003, 06:52 PM

There is no way around this other than cloning the chrono/war miner (which leaves you with the problem of chrono/war miners not all being selected by the 'select all of type' button (if you consider that to be a problem).

Another interesting fact: The Soviet Industrial Plant affects the cost of buildings that have free units.

The following 'pseudo-code' explains how the game works out the cost of a building.
Taking the existing Ore Refinery as an example (and using the default ini values), the game breaks up the cost as such: (note that NAINDP is the Soviet Industrial Plant)

Let Y=NAREFN.FreeUnit[HARV].Cost

"Y is now 1400"

Let X=NAREFN.Cost

"X is now 2000"

If X<Y Then Let X=Y ;note that this is where OneWingedAngel's problem is.

"X is now 2000"

Let STRUCTURE_VALUE=X-Y

"STRUCTURE_VALUE is now 600"

If Exist NAINDP Then

Let VEHICLE_MULTIPLIER=NAINDP.UnitsCostBonus

"VEHICLE_MULTIPLIER is now 0.75"

Let STRUCTURE_MULTIPLIER=NAINDP.BuildingsCostBonus

"STRUCTURE_MULTIPLIER is now 1.0"

Let STRUCTURE_VALUE=STRUCTURE_VALUE*STRUCTURE_MULTIPLI ER

"STRUCTUREVALUE is now 600"

Let Y=Y*VEHICLEMULTIPLIER

"Y is now 1050"

End If

Let FINAL_VALUE_OF_REFINERY=STRUCTURE_VALUE+Y

"FINAL_VALUE_OF_REFINERY is now 1650"

Try running through the pseudo-code with different values for the harvester cost, ore refinery cost, and industrial plant multipliers.

Hope that was of use, or at least mild interest to someone

Hunt7s · 02-07-2003, 04:45 AM

Wow, algorithms are so thrilling. lol. I have to do them in Computing As and that was a good test to working them out

thanks. lol

OneWingedAngel · 02-07-2003, 05:18 PM

Good old algorithms... makes me want to break out the old cntrl+break command.

xcomet · 02-10-2003, 01:01 PM

wow! there is alot of logic in there! like an ALgebraic mixed with Boolean expression!

Allied773 · 02-10-2003, 05:45 PM

i want to make a chinook a harvester, like in generals. it couldn't be THAT hard could it?

OneWingedAngel · 02-10-2003, 06:28 PM

I think you're ugly.

Master_Fenring · 02-10-2003, 07:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Allied773

i want to make a chinook a harvester, like in generals. it couldn't be THAT hard could it?

Nope. Just add the proper tags to make it a harvester.

Quote:

Originally Posted by OneWingedAngel

I think you're ugly.

Uhh. Okay. What does that have to do with anything?

OneWingedAngel · 02-10-2003, 07:16 PM

Uhh, it's jsut something random that's a joke.

Yeah, a chinook harvy would work, be abit unbalanced though unless oyu give it less HP and a lower ore yield.

Master_Fenring · 02-10-2003, 07:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by OneWingedAngel

Uhh, it's jsut something random that's a joke.

Yeah, a chinook harvy would work, be abit unbalanced though unless oyu give it less HP and a lower ore yield.

No imbalance. Just give it weak armor and no weapon.....