Resources

[divineauthority]

I've approached resources recently in my mod and came to a bit of a standstill. Does the energy source give a steady flow of magic overtime or do you get just one lot when you first build it? I noticed the energy costs for it are negative hence why you get some energy when you first build one. I was just wondering if a building can give a steady flow of resources over time.

[daniel.santos]

Yes, take a look under techs/magitech/resources/food.  This is a resource where you can store a certain amount of it and it also creates a steady flow.  The reason energy source has a negative value for energy is because that is the cost (it's a bit of a hack).  In other words, if it has a negative cost, then it is actually giving you energy.  Energy is a static resource.  There is a certain level of supply and there is a certain level of usage.  Excesses are not stored.  Food is consumable.  If your consumable resources go negative, a number of your units will take damage every 30 or 60 seconds until they die off (thereby lowering your consumption rate) or you get more food to feed them!

[divineauthority]

Cheers!