Scoredump army graph listing

[Nikelaos]

Originally Posted by rdonj

Ever since I enabled --scoredump to be able to see numbers like you do on the llamaserver, I've felt the army graph just didn't make sense. It would tell me numbers that I knew could not possibly be true as my armies were not nearly so large as it would make them out to be. I did a little checking of figures and, near as I can tell, the army size figure is not actually how many units you command, but the combined size of all your units added together. Any thoughts on this?

If this is the case I am not sure why it would be so. It seems easier and more direct to just count how many units the player actually has than to give some strange, quasi-estimate of the player's available army strength.

hmm never noticed that, the rationale could be that that larger units are almost always more costly and better than smaller troops so it would tend to give a better indication on the actual strength of ones army MOST of the time.

without that sort of thing the score graphs would be very deceptive, for instance showing kailasa had great military when in fact it was just hordes of spammed markata chaff, similarly Jotunheim could make some giants and because not so many are made (thanks to cost) the graph would give the impression it has a weak army.