From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16488 invoked by alias); 5 Sep 2004 16:50:00 -0000 Mailing-List: contact xconq7-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: xconq7-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 16471 invoked from network); 5 Sep 2004 16:50:00 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO rwcrmhc12.comcast.net) (216.148.227.85) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 5 Sep 2004 16:50:00 -0000 Received: from [192.168.181.128] (c-67-172-156-222.client.comcast.net[67.172.156.222]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc12) with ESMTP id <200409051649590140029okde>; Sun, 5 Sep 2004 16:49:59 +0000 Message-ID: <413B43B0.5030000@phy.cmich.edu> Date: Sun, 05 Sep 2004 16:54:00 -0000 From: Eric McDonald User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.1 (Windows/20040626) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: mskala@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca CC: Elijah Meeks , Xconq list Subject: Re: Feature Request: Advance Prohibits Advance References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2004/txt/msg01110.txt.bz2 mskala@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca wrote: > Can't we make some advances require particular materials? I think we > already can, and if not, that would be easy to add. Then we could easily > do both behaviours. For "you may only have one of these advances", > there's a material of which you only get a little bit, and you need all of > it to do either advance. Once you have done one, you can't do the other. > For "it's very hard, but possible, to do both of these advances", it's a > similar story, but you can eventually with a lot of work gain more of the > special material. From kernel/table.def: DEF_AM_TABLE("advance-consumption-per-rp", am_consumption_per_rp, "amount of material consumed to add one research point to this advance", amconsumptionperrp, constamconsumptionperrp, 0, 0, TABHI, TABINT) If I understand what you're saying, you're suggesting that each side should have a finite quantity of a certain material in its treasury, and that material can only be used to research one, and no more than one, advance. The chosen advance then sets the tone for which other advances can be reserached (through the 'advance-needed-to-research' table). Eric