Topic: Measuring working time of productionsites
niektory
Joined: 2019-06-03, 20:06
Posts: 206  Widelands-Forum-Junkie Location: Poland |
Posted at: 2020-03-25, 03:36
I managed to create a gigantic traffic deadlock in my recent game, and noticed one problem: If a building doesn't work due to the flag being full, the productivity number will not decrease. 
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GunChleoc
Joined: 2013-10-07, 15:56
Posts: 3317  One Elder of Players Location: RenderedRect |
Posted at: 2020-03-25, 09:48
Can you create an issue and attach a savegame? Busy indexing nil values
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Nordfriese
Joined: 2017-01-17, 18:07
Posts: 2032 OS: Debian Testing Version: Latest master One Elder of Players Location: 0x55555d3a34c0 |
Posted at: 2020-03-25, 10:15
Reason is, the building only recalculates productivity when it actually is working (Building::get_buildingwork). When a ware needs to be dropped out, the building assigns this task to the main worker on the next call to get_buildingwork and waits until the task is complete. When the flag is full, the worker will need quite some time until he can actually drop out the ware. So this is not really a bug but a side effect of poor road management IMHO.
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niektory
Joined: 2019-06-03, 20:06
Posts: 206 Widelands-Forum-Junkie Location: Poland |
Posted at: 2020-03-25, 15:12
When a building doesn't work because of any other reason (lack of resources, lack of space, missing input wares, no economy demand, stopped by player), the productivity will decrease. So it's an inconsistency. Would you as a player expect this case to be treated differently if you didn't know about implementation details? Issue: Productivity doesn't change when flag is full #3803
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Tibor Topic Opener
Joined: 2009-03-23, 23:24
Posts: 1377 One Elder of Players Location: Slovakia |
Posted at: 2020-03-25, 15:25
You are right about expectation, but I would also mention that statistics is not updated in fixed cycles (like 15 seconds) - this is probably what most players would expect.
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JanO
Joined: 2015-08-02, 11:56
Posts: 177  At home in WL-forums |
Posted at: 2020-03-25, 20:31
Nevertheless, perhaps buildings which can not drop their products to a flag because of congestion should drop a warning-message?
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