Gas

[fireborn]

i made a new resource for the tech faction,it's called gas, now a few units have to consume gas in order to work, these are the units:

airplane
ornithopter
battle machine


http://www.4shared.com/file/843206/b28e ... ource.html

this is the link to download

[PiZZ]

great idea, like all the others you've had.  
but, how can I collect gas? which figure had to do it? and where its collected?

and then, little OT: i've noticed that pikemen can't be healed, is it a bug (quick to fix)?

thank you.

[fireborn]

gas is built automatically once you have a technodrome, and the more you have, more gas you'll receive, and more machines you'll be able to use.

ps: i wasn't me who built the pikemen, it was toph, so if you wish to ask something about this unit ask him.

[PiZZ]

uh, well... i saw something similar to what you say, but seemed to me that the amount of gas decreased of 10 parts instead of increase.
where are the parameters of the gas' evolution, in the technodrome's XML?
thank you.

(no problem, for the facts of pikemen...it was a simple matter of figures that technicians could heal, as these are listed in technician's XML)  

[fireborn]

my friend nociced it also when i showed it to him,it's just one of those damn programming errors you don't notice, this is how to fix it, look for the resource requirements in the XML of the technodrome(the moded one), and multiply the gas cost by -1, that should solve it

[PiZZ]

ok, fixed.
but still don't get any gas during the game, always 0/10...

[klinki]

when I've downloaded the technodrom.xml looks so:

      <resource-requirements>
         <resource name="gold" amount="100" />
         <resource name="wood" amount="250" />
      </resource-requirements>
      <resources-stored>
         <resource name="wood" amount="200" />
         <resource name="gas" amount="-10"/>   
      </resources-stored>

but if you want the technodrom to produce gas, it must lokks so:

      <resource-requirements>
         <resource name="gold" amount="100" />
         <resource name="wood" amount="250" />
         <resource name="gas" amount="-10"/>   
      </resource-requirements>
      <resources-stored>
         <resource name="wood" amount="200" />
      </resources-stored>

and if you want the technodrom to store gas to, it must look so:

      <resource-requirements>
         <resource name="gold" amount="100" />
         <resource name="wood" amount="250" />
         <resource name="gas" amount="-10"/>   
      </resource-requirements>
      <resources-stored>
         <resource name="wood" amount="200" />
         <resource name="gas" amount="100"/>   
      </resources-stored>

you can change the amounts, but do not change the negative sign..

[PiZZ]

FAN TA STIC ! ! !  

[fireborn]

man, i didn't expect my mod to have so many errors...

[PiZZ]

don't worry, man. just call it COOPERATIVE WORK!!!  :shock:

apart from the fact that you can't have more units fueled with gas than technodromes in play.  

[fireborn]

just one thing more, 'cause at last I've found a way...
in a strange way, gas was acting similar like food (when you waste all you have or when the number in the parenthesis start being negative, people begin to die)

that's because consumable resources, like food... or gas, act like this, it's more like a basic need for units, people need to eat food, as well as machines need to have gas in order to work properly

[PiZZ]

that's ok.
but as you could imagine, it's hard to efford one TECHNODROME par each gas fueled unit in play!  

[PiZZ]

reasonably, the only way could be edit the TECHNODROME.XML like

   
<resource-requirements>
<resource name="gold" amount="100"/>
<resource name="wood" amount="250"/>
<resource name="gas" amount="-100"/>
</resource-requirements>

because it will allow you to have 10 gas fueled unit per each technodrome.