[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Wishlist: Automatically increasing timer (PR#1298)

[Mike Kaufman <kaufman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 09:08:15AM +0100, Per I. Mathisen wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Mike Kaufman wrote:
> > attached is a toy patch which allows you to have an increasing timer
> > with rather flexible options. The reason that it's a toy patch is that
> > you must set the options in the source and then recompile.
> >
> > Reason for this: it requires four new server options and an extra state
> > variable in a savefile. Also, I just wanted to get this out here, so
> > there could be some discussion as to the effectiveness of this solution
> > (i.e. is it flexible enough for everybody?)
> 
> Actually, I think it may be too flexible. Let's not make this option too
> hard for users to understand with a cursory glance at its description.

this is an advanced feature. Most users won't care (most users don't care
about game.timeout period), but the users who do care will want the feature
to do what they want it to.

> 
> My own idea of how to solve this was to put a timer increase as an option
> in citystyles in cities.ruleset. I played around with that idea a bit but
> then it got all out of hand and I ended up rewriting cities ruleset as
> ages ruleset, and I had to take a step back to take another look at the
> whole thing... ;)
> 
> > An better way to do this would be to condense the four new variables
> > into 1 or even into game.timeout. This would require hacking stdinhand
> > to handle multivariable options:
> >
> > set timeout 30 25 0 30 30
> 
> Well, stdinhand already handles multivariable options. Sort of.
> 
> > or
> >
> > set timeout 30  # with the rest as defaults
> 
> Or
>       set timeout 30 20 5     # timer=30, incr by 5 every X=20th turn
>       set timeout 30 20 5 10  # ditto, but add 10 to X every increase
>       set timeout 30 20 5 0 2 # instead multiply X by 2 every incr
> 
> :)

heh. how about either 1 or all (but if it's easy to do, go for it).

> 
> > for example. The nice thing is that registry.c handles this type of
> > thing ok (apparently), so savegames are not the big issue.
> >
> > Per, you want to have a go at this? You were just fooling around with
> > stdinhand...
> 
> Sure, I'll have a go at it.

excellent.

-mike

> 
> Yours,
> Per
> 
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