Topic: How does the "preciousness" exactly works?
MarkMcWire
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Joined: 2017-02-08, 21:06
Posts: 349  Tribe Member Location: Eisenach, Germany |
Posted at: 2021-05-21, 20:08
I understood the basic principle of the game mechanics. However, I still don't understand which algorithm is used to process the value "preciousness". Which numerical values make sense in principle and how does this value influence the way in which the AI constructs buildings? I would like to have the AI build more than 1 mine per mine type. Which values would then be suitable? My widelands addons: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jopANlODo41T2reHJ0zaCOMYxq_rxXP-/view?usp=sharing 
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hessenfarmer
Joined: 2014-12-11, 23:16
Posts: 2745  One Elder of Players Location: Bavaria |
Posted at: 2021-05-21, 20:43
There is no single algorithm. Basically it is just another weighing factor to determine the score of a building - buildingspot combination. So if there are 2 buildings which would result in the same result in one spot the building producing the ware with higher preciousness the higher preciousness will be build. But there are many other factors in this evaluation including the genetic factors, delay of a needed building not build, gametime, number of buildings, enemy contact and many more... in principle all preciousnesses should make a distribution of importance of the wares for the tribe. I still did not find any time to investigate why the AI behaves differntly in your personal tribe. But in our official tribes it buids more then one mine. The main thing is: as long as the probability of your work being part of the game is low. the priority to investigate special problems of them is low as well. Sorry to say but I nearly can't manage all my other projects in this game.
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MarkMcWire
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Joined: 2017-02-08, 21:06
Posts: 349 Tribe Member Location: Eisenach, Germany |
Posted at: 2021-05-21, 21:05
I have a suspicion. Both gold ore and iron ore are found in the official tribes. There is only one type of ore in my tribe. That is probably the decisive factor. My widelands addons: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jopANlODo41T2reHJ0zaCOMYxq_rxXP-/view?usp=sharing
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hessenfarmer
Joined: 2014-12-11, 23:16
Posts: 2745 One Elder of Players Location: Bavaria |
Posted at: 2021-05-21, 21:13
this may be the case if we still have some hardcoded values in the code. Maybe this might help to analyse the code for you
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Nordfriese
Joined: 2017-01-17, 18:07
Posts: 2057 OS: Debian Testing Version: Latest master One Elder of Players Location: 0x55555d3a34c0 |
Posted at: 2021-05-21, 22:04
@MarkMcWire I think this sums up all problems related to the Europeans tribe pretty well. As long as your tribe exists only in a GitHub fork hardly anyone even knows it exists, and obtaining it requires some tedious manual installation magic. I'd recommend that you should consider packaging your tribe as an add-on. This would have the advantages that there will be more users of your mod, any errors or undesired behaviour will be easier to investigate directly in master, and there would also be more incentive for developers to ensure that everything runs smoothly. Add-ons enjoy less support than the official game but far more than a standalone mod. The ability to create completely new add-on tribes is fully functional with current master (for an example look at the New Tribe add-on).
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MarkMcWire
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Joined: 2017-02-08, 21:06
Posts: 349 Tribe Member Location: Eisenach, Germany |
Posted at: 2021-05-23, 15:32
The fundamental question of course goes beyond my own tribe. I have now archived my fork and will not work on it any further. Instead, I'll make an addon out of it as suggested. My widelands addons: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jopANlODo41T2reHJ0zaCOMYxq_rxXP-/view?usp=sharing
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