Modding question...facilities

[geoschmo]

Is this a correct statement?

"A facility can be upgraded to one in the same family that has a higher roman numeral."

Is there anything more to it, or is that it for upgrading facilities?

Also, what happens if you have two facilities with the same family number and the same roman numeral? Will the game crash on that?

Geoschmo

[tesco samoa]

upgrades occur on same Facility Family and the increase in Roman Numeral

but..
I have noticed that duplicates just overright themselves...
and the one that is further down the facilities.txt is shown as the latest. When there are dups.

[Hotfoot]

Originally posted by geoschmo:
Also, what happens if you have two facilities with the same family number and the same roman numeral? Will the game crash on that?

Geoschmo

You mean if you assign the exact same identifier to two different variables, what will happen?

My guess is that either the game says "What are you doing?" and crashes, or only uses one of the two.

[Rollo]

My guess is that it will use the one that is further down the list.

Rollo

[geoschmo]

Ok, I confirmed that much. The game does not crash or anything. You can build any of the same family/numeral faciliites, but when you decide to upgrade them it will upgrade to the Last one in the list.

What I am trying to do is mod some way to make monolith facilities an option. They are great and all for resource production, but they are jsut so darned expensive that in the typical multiplayer game that Lasts 100-150 turns they jsut aren't practical. THey take so long to build that you would do way better jsut building the resource specific facility.

Anyway, I came up with a suggestion. I don't know if this a totally original idea. I don't recall anyone doing it exactly like this. But the idea is for a reto facility that costs around what a single resourse facility would, and only produces one resource, but is upgradable to a standard monilith facility.

Using these you can build whatever resource specific fac you need to have at the moment due to immediate empire needs. But for a slight decrease in production, and a sligth increase in construction costs, build it in such a way the it is convertable to a monolithe facility down the road when the planet is full and isn't doing anything else.

We do this sort of thing now when we build power plants. Modern coal, oil and nuclear plants are designed to make it easier to retrofit them down the road if neccesary due to shortages or environmental/political concerns. Makes sense to me resource facilities in teh future would be able to do something similer.

What do you think?

Geoschmo

code:

---

Name                := Retrolith Facility - Min

Description         := Universal tool which can harvest all of a planet's resources.

Facility Group      := Resource Extraction

Facility Family     := 4

Roman Numeral       := 0

Restrictions        := None

Pic Num             := 58

Cost Minerals       := 2500

Cost Organics       := 2500

Cost Radioactives   := 2500

Number of Tech Req  := 1

Tech Area Req 1     := Stellar Manipulation

Tech Level Req 1    := 1

Number of Abilities := 1

Ability 1 Type      := Resource Generation - Minerals

Ability 1 Descr     := Mines 600 minerals each turn.

Ability 1 Val 1     := 600

Ability 1 Val 2     := 0

|

Name                := Retrolith Facility - Org

Description         := Universal tool which can harvest all of a planet's resources.

Facility Group      := Resource Extraction

Facility Family     := 4

Roman Numeral       := 0

Restrictions        := None

Pic Num             := 58

Cost Minerals       := 2500

Cost Organics       := 2500

Cost Radioactives   := 2500

Number of Tech Req  := 1

Tech Area Req 1     := Stellar Manipulation

Tech Level Req 1    := 1

Number of Abilities := 1

Ability 1 Type      := Resource Generation - Organics

Ability 1 Descr     := Mines 600 organics each turn.

Ability 1 Val 1     := 600

Ability 1 Val 2     := 0

|

Name                := Retrolith Facility - Rad

Description         := Universal tool which can harvest all of a planet's resources.

Facility Group      := Resource Extraction

Facility Family     := 4

Roman Numeral       := 0

Restrictions        := None

Pic Num             := 58

Cost Minerals       := 2500

Cost Organics       := 2500

Cost Radioactives   := 2500

Number of Tech Req  := 1

Tech Area Req 1     := Stellar Manipulation

Tech Level Req 1    := 1

Number of Abilities := 1

Ability 1 Type      := Resource Generation - Radioactives

Ability 1 Descr     := Mines 600 radioactives each turn.

Ability 1 Val 1     := 600

Ability 1 Val 2     := 0

---

[ September 30, 2002, 20:13: Message edited by: geoschmo ]

[Ragnarok]

I like the idea. I always wished there was a way I could just push the upgrade button and have monoliths be built where they arn't already. Instead of having to do it all manually. Which, IMO is a pain in the butt. But yes, very good idea Geo.