Topic: What is the idle program?
Kontorotsui
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Joined: 2021-05-20, 15:35
Posts: 40  Pry about Widelands |
Posted at: 2022-10-04, 19:50
I get many messages from buildings about "skipped idle program because the economy needs the ware ... " I assume it is a program that trains the worker by consuming the ware, only if that ware is not needed elsewhere (that is, consuming it, depletes a ware whose stock is lower than the economy target). Is that correct? 
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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: 2022-10-04, 21:16
This program only exists in European Tribe buildings. From what I see in a quick look it seems that when the economy doesn't need any of the building's input or output wares, Europeans buildings produce all possible output wares one after the other. This is called the Idle program. When any output ware is needed, this program is skipped and programs specializing in producing only the required ware(s) are called. @MarkMcWire could explain this better being the designer of this tribe. The five official tribes don't have such a mechanism.
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Kontorotsui
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Joined: 2021-05-20, 15:35
Posts: 40 Pry about Widelands |
Posted at: 2022-10-05, 01:33
Understood. I never saw that in the other tribes. I thought it was a new feature introduced in the builds. I also have a problem with this program, because it happens that for some reasons a new ware is not produced because one of the wares that is going to be consumed is required for the economy. In my current game with the Europeans, the evade lvl 4 is not upgrading because "the economy needs the ware wine". I have all the wine slots filled up in the battle arena, but until I have stocked more than the required minimum in the warehouse, the wine doesn't get consumed and the upgrade is skipped. Even if I set to 0 the target for wine in the economy, still it gets skipped until the wine is filled elsewhere (the mines). I don't know how to deactived/change this feature.
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hessenfarmer
Joined: 2014-12-11, 23:16
Posts: 2745 One Elder of Players Location: Bavaria |
Posted at: 2022-10-05, 12:54
you could try to modify the .lua files in the addon.
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