Fixed factory production each turn

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DCS World dynamic campaign.

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Fixed factory production each turn #1036

Open DanAlbert opened 3 years ago

DanAlbert commented 3 years ago

Forking from https://github.com/Khopa/dcs_liberation/issues/823 since it's economic rebalancing rather than a part of the logistics system.

Make ground unit recruitment be based on a fixed amount of production per turn rather than money. Production would not roll over. Units from off-map could maybe be money based, but perhaps should just be a fixed amount of production per turn.

Possibly also create different types of factories, so some produce tanks, some trucks, some IFVs, etc. Would need more of them but it would also give more reasons to use things other than tanks.

SnappyComebacks commented 3 years ago

What do you think of this idea?

A factory has a set maximum number of units it can produce in a turn, multiple factories at a control point means a higher maximum.
Another objective, like oil and/or derrick contributes to how many units can be produced each turn.

So if there is plenty of oil/derrick, your factories can operate at maximum capacity, else they will be limited by how much oil/derrick objectives are connected and alive.

A supplemental idea:

If there are oil or derrick objectives at a control point that does not have a factory, a convoy is created to transport the oil to the closest factory.

DanAlbert commented 3 years ago

If I'm following you, the units produced is the minimum of the factory output and the oil output?

SnappyComebacks commented 3 years ago

Whichever limit is lower is the output limit of the factory. (I think that is what you said, just providing an example in case it wasn't.)

If the amount of factories only supports producing 10 units, and the oil supports producing 15 units, then only 10 get produced.
If the amount of factories supports producing 20 units, but the amount of oil only supports producing 5 units, then only 5 units get produced.

DanAlbert commented 3 years ago

I like the fuel convoy idea, but I'm less fond of the two building types controlling the same thing. Maybe if the oil contributed to a global limit rather than a local one? (Maybe that's what you meant and I misunderstood?)