Topic: new tribe: amazons

south oof blue starting position there is a narrow water strip; I made wilderness keepers and water gatherers there, but both are unable to work. they don't recognize the water as such.

on the other hand, the small pool near the blue hq works fine. this makes me think that those buildings require a corner that's fully surrounded by water. and a thin strip of water surrounded by land is not recognized as a valid target. I checked for confirmation on the dolomites map, which has narrow rivers, and i saw the same behavior; water gatherers do not find water

This is deliberate behaviour. The water gatherer looks for nodes where at least 1 neighbouring node is completely surrounded by water.

The wilderness keeper has an error in the findspace command for fish replenishing. @hessenfarmer please do it like for atl fishbreeder there:
findspace=size:any radius:… breed resource:fish
Otherwise he will try to replenish fish only on the nodes described (but fish can life on other shore nodes as well), and also on nodes that never had fish or where fish is still 100% full (both will fail).

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Nordfriese wrote:

south oof blue starting position there is a narrow water strip; I made wilderness keepers and water gatherers there, but both are unable to work. they don't recognize the water as such.

on the other hand, the small pool near the blue hq works fine. this makes me think that those buildings require a corner that's fully surrounded by water. and a thin strip of water surrounded by land is not recognized as a valid target. I checked for confirmation on the dolomites map, which has narrow rivers, and i saw the same behavior; water gatherers do not find water

This is deliberate behaviour. The water gatherer looks for nodes where at least 1 neighbouring node is completely surrounded by water.

Can't we change this to find the small amounts of water by the water gatherer as well? As on the mentioned maps (e.g. Dolomites) we might ran out of water otherwise.

The wilderness keeper has an error in the findspace command for fish replenishing. @hessenfarmer please do it like for atl fishbreeder there:

I did this intentionally. Of course this can be changed, but I wanted the amazon fish supply work differently from atlanteans.

findspace=size:any radius:… breed resource:fish
Otherwise he will try to replenish fish only on the nodes described (but fish can life on other shore nodes as well), and also on nodes that never had fish

that was the reason why I chose it like this I wanted to breed in emptied nodes as well.

@ KoN: just a short explanation of the behaviour described:
- Atlantean fishbreeder knows where he can breed fish (there is at least 1 fish left and the node isn't fully filled with fish) then he goes there and tries to breed which is most of the time succesful if at least the surrounding nodes can take more then 4 fish in summary (it is like mining in the opposite direction --> chances for succes get worse the more fish is already there.
- Amazons wilderness keeper doesn't know whether he can breed on the node (if there is space left to breed) but he tries to breed in a node where he finds water and there is no other precondition for it. so you could built a wilderness keeper even if all the fish has been caught.

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findspace=size:any radius:… breed resource:fish

Otherwise he will try to replenish fish only on the nodes described (but fish can life on other shore nodes as well), and also on nodes that never had fish

that was the reason why I chose it like this I wanted to breed in emptied nodes as well.

This just results in the wilderness keeper walking to nodes that never contained fish, and when he gets there the program fails because it is not allowed to replenish a resource if it was never present in the node. The check for breed resource:fish in findspace is mandatory to avoid bugs on many maps.

This is deliberate behaviour. The water gatherer looks for nodes where at least 1 neighbouring node is completely surrounded by water.

Can't we change this to find the small amounts of water by the water gatherer as well? As on the mentioned maps (e.g. Dolomites) we might ran out of water otherwise.

Reason why I did it like this is that I copied this code 1:1 from the shipwright´s buildferry code, and since a ferry shouldn´t be built in a tiny puddle, I put that check there. I´ll modify the code to allow nodes with 1 water triangle and no other condition as default (for water gatherer), and re-enabling the current behaviour with the space flag (for the ferry yard).

Doing so I can check out now whether my git environment is functional

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Nordfriese wrote:

This just results in the wilderness keeper walking to nodes that never contained fish, and when he gets there the program fails because it is not allowed to replenish a resource if it was never present in the node. The check for breed resource:fish in findspace is mandatory to avoid bugs on many maps.

From what I saw in the code and experienced so far it will not crash. It will replenish a random node in radius 1 if this can be replenished. this is somewhat ineffective but that was the tradeoff for being able to breed in empty nodes. For the moment I would use the code like the water gather as it could esily be changed at any time.

Now I will try to setup git. wish me luck

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As far as I understood breed is an additional flag to the find resource command. resource:fish will therefore only find nodes with at least one fish as 0 fish is equivalent to no resource. When there the atlantean fishbreeder accidentally can increase a neighbour node with 0 fish to 1 as the search node code is independent of the run_breed code. the find node part is the cause for the atlantean fishbreeder needing at least 1 fish.

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