Strategies.txt Confusion

Maquiladora · November 23, 2002, 17:58

1. In strategies text theres -

Code:

    // bonus for building road tile improvements
    RoadUtilityBonus  200
      
    // bonus for building production tile improvements
    ImproveProductionBonus  10

    // bonus for building growth tile improvements
    ImproveGrowthBonus  100

    // bonus to apply to cells with goods
    ImproveGoodBonus  75

My question is, would ImproveCommerceBonus work? Is there any other file that these refer to?

2. Also theres this part -

Code:

        PopAssignmentElement {
        // percent of workers after minimums have been achieved that
        // should be used as specialists
        Specialists         0.1

        // Percent of allocation to different specialist types (total = 1.0)
        FarmerPercent       1.0
        LaborerPercent      0.0
        MerchantPercent     0.0
        EntertainerPercent  0.0
        ScientistPercent    0.0

        Bottom 0.2 GrowthCities
    }

I want to use "Top 0.2 CommerceCities". CommerceCities is used in strategies.txt but not in the context of specialist allocation, as i want to use it. Its used under the building queues part, like this -

Code:

	BuildListSequenceElement {
	  Priority 10000
      BuildListSequence BUILD_LIST_SEQUENCE_SCIENCE
	  Top 0.2 
      CommerceCities
	  Advice BUILD_SCIENCE_ADVICE
    }

3. Last question. When it says -

Code:

    //
    // SCIENCE SETTINGS
    //

    // percent of gold to put into science
    SciencePercent      60

...underneath the default strategy for those governments mentioned, how would the 60% work with a government which could go to 100% science max? Wouldnt it be a waste? Or am i confused?

Apologies if all these questions have been asked and answered before but i couldnt find them.

Martin Gühmann · November 23, 2002, 19:15

For the flag reference you could look it up in the flaglist, but it seems to look a little bit incomplete at this place you need to look it up.

1. No, I didn't found it in the ctp2.exe and it isn't therefore in the flaglist. If there would be something additional in that regard I would have tried already. But there is nothing for the commerce tile improvements obviously they forgot, or controlled this by other means, e.g. by the ratio of the other flags or made it terrain depending. Fact is in the original game the AI builds commerce tile improvements on desert tiles.

2. Of course you can try it, but I am afraid it won't work.

-Martin

Peter Triggs · November 23, 2002, 19:56

2. Try "GoldCities". It's listed in the strategies documentation but isn't used in strategies.txt. Whether or not it will work is anybody's guess.

Maquiladora · November 23, 2002, 22:21

Well GoldCities doesnt mark an error like CommerceCities did, i havent had the chance to check if its working yet but it ran ok. Thanks.

I figured out the science thing too, but what i dont understand is why they (Activision) decided to put some of the STRATEGY_ science settings at 60/70%, even for futuristic governments, the AI uses that setting.