pandaro
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8 years ago factory map choosing is at the first attempt, but for more clarification i will explain how it work now: 1 exclude map areas under the 20% of total area from possible location to build a factories 2 create table for each the mob area available where insert the builded factories 3 calculates the value for each mob area based on : relative dimension, relative mex number, geos and ai.mobRating 4 assign a value for each factories 4.1 based on path rating for each units that a factory can build (if Shard LuaAI) 4.2 based on mtype value for each units that a factory can build previous calculated in the mob area system(point 3) 4.3 extra adjust factories values of hovercraft 5 all factories are insert in order of value in a table(ai.factoriesRanking) 6 take in order a factory from ai.factoriesRanking 7 if units can build 6 filter if there are a major reason to don't build it (example:need advance and this is not advanced) 7 search a position 8 filter if there already have a better factory in this position(mob area) 9 pass value to progress queue 10 eco, duplicate, location, gethelp filters(i think we need to modify this filters for factories)
this a explanation, i will test it on lot of map but i already see that are some problem to fix: 1 sometimes after first t2 factory, for example veh, instead build air water or hover or other solution a lv1 builder start to build a kbot factory that cover the same area of the veh 2 when we have t2 level we need a way to build fast all the t2 level for each type of factory, for example water factory build t1 level and wait a lot to build the t2
feel free to manage what do you want regard the factory choosing system
eronoobos
It's a useful map to test the factory-choosing algorithm, because while all the metal spots are in places kbots can be, only air units can go to the other side of the map. I can't tell at a glance if the new factory-choosing algorithm in https://github.com/eronoobos/BABAR-The-Shardifant/pull/6 checks how many metal spots are in the relevant mobility network where it plans to build a factory. BestFactory used to do this, I believe. On Lava Reef, checking for that would reveal that a kbot factory would only provide access to less than half the metal spots.