Topic: wares distribution (iron ore and coal)
Astuur
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Joined: 2009-02-28, 09:08
Posts: 733  One Elder of Players Location: Frankfurt / Germany |
Posted at: 2009-03-24, 10:13
I was playing a large map (Riverlands). It is map that enforces long transportation, as the landmass is divided by rivers that allow crossing only at some few places. I had smelting works all over the map on almost every island with mountains. When I explored a new island I built a warehouse, 2 smelting works, one iron-ore and one coal mine. I expected the system to use the new facilities at hand and produce iron and then carry the iron away to ironworks, axe factories, warmill etc. -- but it did not. Instead the mining resources were carried straight from the mines, not even using my new warehouse, and seemingly evenly distributed to every smelter on the map (all idle then). Is this as designed? I dont think it is an effective system. It generates a lot of needless traffic. I would rather see the system using local facilities first, and only distribute things when their capacity is exhausted. Being no programmer, I apologize for all my suggestions that imply undue workload and for other misjudgements due to lack of expertise or relevant skills. 
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SirVer
Joined: 2009-02-19, 14:18
Posts: 1445 One Elder of Players Location: Germany - Munich |
Posted at: 2009-03-24, 10:42
It is currently programmed as such. There is much room for improvement of the routing/distribution algorithms. Feel free to take a look at the source. Cheers, !SirVer
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Astuur
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Joined: 2009-02-28, 09:08
Posts: 733 One Elder of Players Location: Frankfurt / Germany |
Posted at: 2009-03-24, 14:03
I am afraid I can look at the source until hell frezes over, and it wont help much. Not everybody who would like to see WL progress, has the (programming) skills to do so himself - alas. Even if some capable programmer would invest his time to implement such a new code, I'd still be wondering whether what I suggested is the smartest possible solution. Things like this directly influence a player's tactics and make a lot of difference. Being no programmer, I apologize for all my suggestions that imply undue workload and for other misjudgements due to lack of expertise or relevant skills.
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madtumat
Joined: 2009-02-27, 01:59
Posts: 39  Pry about Widelands |
Posted at: 2009-03-24, 16:53
Build a separate economy on each island for awhile. Then reconnect them all. I have had to do this when I play large maps, but it seems to work. I like large maps, so I do this quite a bit when I play. I have many repeats of buildings, but this is just the way things develop. The downside is you can be attacked at a weak point and it will take a long time for new soldiers to arrive if you try this playing a human.
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Astuur
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Joined: 2009-02-28, 09:08
Posts: 733 One Elder of Players Location: Frankfurt / Germany |
Posted at: 2009-03-25, 07:22
Yes, I have already tried that, and it works. However, what you cannot do with this workaround, is dedicate certain regions to certain tasks (like "weaponproduction" or "food production"). Instead such isolated regions must always be autonomous for all aspects of the economy. Also I do not clearly understand what happens when you finally reconnect everything. there is some sort of distribution among wareshouses, but it seems to affect only some wares (corn, meat) Being no programmer, I apologize for all my suggestions that imply undue workload and for other misjudgements due to lack of expertise or relevant skills.
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madtumat
Joined: 2009-02-27, 01:59
Posts: 39 Pry about Widelands |
Posted at: 2009-03-25, 22:32
A long term solution is to allow the player to set how many of each ware is to be stored in each warehouse. A warehouse array could link each ware type with a longinteger for this. The buttons would take some work, but modifying the current economy template should work.
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Mars
Joined: 2009-03-28, 09:26
Posts: 118  Likes to be here Location: Germany |
Posted at: 2009-03-28, 20:27
I don't know whether this is the right place, but I think it would be a good idea to implement such a button. Then it would be possible to tell your economy to produce e.g. axes even if you have enough soldiers at the moment. It's great that sawmills or stonemason just produce on request but for military buildings that don't work well in my opinion. And this button could make request for weapons as well.
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sigra
Joined: 2009-03-05, 18:02
Posts: 130  At home in WL-forums Location: Orsa |
Posted at: 2009-03-28, 22:10
This is already implemented (revision 3543).
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Astuur
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Joined: 2009-02-28, 09:08
Posts: 733 One Elder of Players Location: Frankfurt / Germany |
Posted at: 2009-04-05, 13:50
I agree that this would be very welcome, but I dont think it's a solution to exactly the problem i was describing. The policy would still be "distribute evenly" whereas I wanted a penalty for longer ways to make the system route things in the neighborhood. Only then does it pay that you put more thought to the question what to built where. This would dramatically change the game's behavior and (IMO) make it a lot more interesting to play. Being no programmer, I apologize for all my suggestions that imply undue workload and for other misjudgements due to lack of expertise or relevant skills.
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