limit on units

[Botjer]

for example. for every building X you may only have a set number of unit Y.

[orion]

The Magic faction limits units with the energy resource. The only faction that doesn't limit units is tech and i personally like that it does not limit.

[ZaggyDad]

Well, you can make as many energy sources as you want. So it's not really a limit.

~Zaggy

[orion]

True Zaggydad.

A really good example of a faction the limits units is the indians faction by titi. Here is the url

http://www.titusgames.de

[ZaggyDad]

It's the same with that. You can make as many tents as you want.

~Zaggy

[orion]

Fine. I'm just going to shut up now.

[Alestance]

All you got to do is give the faction a static resource and call it "men." This would work like the Energy does for Magic, but you can choose to have that no worker could build something to increase men, or you could have a new building called "Nursery" which increases "Men" slowly, over time, like reproduction.

[hailstone]

I think other games use 'population' as the name. Good idea.

[daniel.santos]

I can also modify gae so that resources can be hidden (not displayed) like I do with emanations.  In FPM, there are some emanations that I don't want to display like the restorative effect the necromancers & liches have on their minions, because all that matters is that if the minion wanders too far off, they start degenerating, plus I think that it's confusing to show "necromancer regeneration".  I might actually do this with the "shrines" and just improve the "not enough resources" message to tell you exactly what the problem is.

[ZaggyDad]

Not possible yet.

~Zaggy

[Botjer]

well, what i want is that a castle is able to build 1 builders hall. and only 1 per castle, and that only that castle is able to build it.

[Botjer]

when i think about it i think itll solve itself

[Botjer]

so it is possible to hide resources in gae?

[ZaggyDad]

I don't think I know what you mean, but if I do, no.

~Zaggy

[daniel.santos]

so it is possible to hide resources in gae?

It is now (well, as of the unrelease 0.2.7).  I modified the messages you get when you can't build, produce or upgrade due to lack of resources, so it tells you which resources you don't have enough of.

Here's what my shrine resource looks like now:

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<resource>
<image path="../../placeholders/icon.bmp"/>
<type value="static"/>
<display value="false"/>
</resource>
So just add <display value="false"/> to your resource to hide it (in gae 0.2.7+).

[ZaggyDad]

Why are you making it not be shown? I think I'd want to know how much I've got of it.

Heh...heh...Oh. I never noticed.

~Zaggy