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Open source clone of Theme Hospital
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Multiple epidemics are back #32

Open sadger opened 9 years ago

sadger commented 9 years ago

For discussion:

I have re-implemented and pushed the changes which bring back multiple epidemics. They were removed for ease of testing but instead I have added a new level config option gbv.EpidemicConcurrentLimit which is by default 3. This ensures that the total of epidemics, including the active and future ones happening in the background is no more than the concurrent limit. This means by default there can be 1 active epidemic and 2 in the background. If we want to test stuff again we can just set the limit to 1 and there will only be a single epidemic.

This also adds flexibility for the map makers to make their maps harder or easier.

MarkL1961 commented 9 years ago

I can see one big problem with this and I am experiencing it with game I loaded the other day. We are going to get one epidemic after another. I am only getting a break now because there was an emergency that cancelled the second epidemic, but I can see the next one building up already and expect it to be revealed as soon as I clear this emergency. I think if we end up with one epidemic after another it will not only make it impossible to win a game, it will get annoying. Perhaps there should be less chance of one being revealed if your hospital meets certain conditions like being clean and not too hot? Greater chance if it is dirty and too hot?

sadger commented 9 years ago

Yes that sounds feasible. What i'll have to do is limit it to 1 epidemic for release and we can try and fix it when beta/testing is happening. I haven't got much time to implement this as merging this all will be a big job I need to get done this week!

MarkL1961 commented 9 years ago

I have had an idea about this that might be easier to do. When an epidemic is revealed, clear the background pool at the same time. This should reduce the chance of there being one epidemic straight after another, but it would still be possible sometimes. In the background it would still be creating new ones. I think the problem I saw was that whilst you were dealing with the one that was revealed the other two were spreading in the background and getting quite big. For my game I was lucky that twice I had an emergency to give me a break.
I am now on level 9 of campaign (just started it last night) and will try and test the latest changes tonight as the deadline is getting closer.

sadger commented 9 years ago

Ok it's an idea certainly but we should definitely wait until after the beta/pre-release before changing anything because I haven't got long to merge all this. What i'll do is limit it to 1 epidemic for now and we can look at options after the 24th. That sound ok to you?

MarkL1961 commented 9 years ago

:+1: