Re: build doctrine question/bug?

[Eric McDonald <mcdonald@phy.cmich.edu>]

On Sat, 2004-05-29 at 20:52, Tom Schaub wrote:
> Situation: Playing "Modern Game" on latest Mac OSX version of Xconq. 
> Units are AI-control, true, Plan-passive, by default.
> 
> Player action: Start construction of units through either P command or 
> Construction window, putting a number greater than one (have tried 3, 
> 5, 99) for number of units of that type to build.
> Improper program behavior: After completing the first unit, the 
> town/city goes idle instead of starting a second unit.

Must be a bug in the Mac native interface. It works fine with the Tcl/Tk
interface; I just checked (with the modern game). I give "3Pi" and 3
infantry come out.

I must admit that it is gratifying to know that the primary interface
for Linux and Windows users does something better than the Mac
interface. Xconq development has been so Mac-biased....

> Shouldn't the doctrine for the specific unit(s) override the 
> default-doctrine?

Yes. And if they are set from GDL, they do. They also should from the
command line, but setting the construction run from there is apparently
not supported at this time.

> Also, I tried to change the default-doctrine manually with a text 
> command, but must have been doing something wrong.

To set something other than the construction run length, you can do
something like the following:
  o
  doctrine set place-doctrine resupply 5%
which will set the 'resupply-percent' for places to 5%.

Eric