Supply ship
Templarnights
supply ships. I think I agree but am concerned with how it will effect
gameplay. It seems like a small change, but is it really?
Any discussion?
Meadowwood
better. Usually what I end up doing now is ceding my supply ships to
may ally as necessary and this is a little clumsy.
Ken Stevens
really two kinds of supply: unlimited (when connected back to city)
and limited (when not). In the case of limited supply, you could
inadvertently suck all the ammo out of your ally's supply ships when
they were planning to use that ammo for something else.
Changing the code to use ally supply would be easy. Changing the code
to tell the difference between limited and unlimited supply would not
only be hard, but would trigger a big performance drag since now I
only need to calculate supply for all squares within a 5 sector radius
for quick calculations and only actually calculate the supply tree
(connected nodes) when actually drawing supply (e.g. attacking).
Sorry, that was a bit convoluted, I hope it made sense. What it comes
down to is that it would be easy to share supply, but would come at a
cost of potentially depleting your ally's limited ammo--is that
something we want...? I prefer the current method of ceding where
it's explicit whether you want to give them that supply. I agree it's
clumsy, but at least it's clear.
Meadowwood
of my ally using up my supply! Not sure what the best approach would
be...
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jbos...@comcast.net
Currently if you are within 5 of an Allied City, then supply is unlimited.
If you have a table of UNLIMITED SUPPLY locations per alliance, then any reload by either from that table is unlimited.
This gets updated as SUPPLY moves & cities are added.
SUPPY does not move that much, you have to calculate the distance from the active unit to any SUPPLY alredy.
If the SUPPLY is part of the table, then you know it's unlimited and no more calculations required.
Limited reloads come from each users supply chain.
Or every time a SUPPY moves, it's tagged as LIMTIED or UNLIMITED.
If LIMITED, only supplies that user.
If it's tagged, then you don't have to calculate during the attach, you already know.
Workable?
Too much code to change?
jbos...@comcast.net
From: jbos...@comcast.net
To: stra...@googlegroups.com
Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2012 12:54:33 PM
Subject: Re: Supply ship
Currently if you are within 5 of an Allied City, then supply is unlimited.
If you have a table of UNLIMITED SUPPLY locations per alliance, then any reload by either from that table is unlimited.
This gets updated as SUPPLY moves & cities are added.
SUPPY does not move that much, you have to calculate the distance from the active unit to any SUPPLY already.
If the SUPPLY is part of the table, then you know it's unlimited and no more calculations required.
Limited reloads come from each users supply chain.
Or every time a SUPPY moves, it's tagged as LIMTIED or UNLIMITED.
If LIMITED, only supplies that user.
If it's tagged, then you don't have to calculate during the attack, you already know.