[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#6918) GUI for CMA should allow zero weights

["Raimar Falke" <i-freeciv-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=6918 >

On Sat, Nov 22, 2003 at 10:13:02AM -0800, Jason Short wrote:
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> > I'm thinking in particular of luxuries.  Luxuries are completely
> > worthless except at the discrete jumps between riot/content and
> > content/happy.  If I create 2 more luxuries, but it doesn't change my
> > city's happiness, I'm wasting possible other things I could make.  The
> > CM code (in theory, though it doesn't right now) could use a zero weight
> > to mean it can avoid optimizing along that axis, which can speed things
> > up.
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> I'd also like to set the trade weight to zero.  With a minimum of 1, you
> have to give, trade, gold, luxury, science all at least one weight meaning
> overall trade must be at least double-counted.  Very inelegant.  It would
> be better to weight science and tax as 1 (or more) with luxury and trade
> as 0.

You can do all this without touching the core. You can allow 0 in the
frontend and multiply all weights by 1000 before you pass them to the
core.

        Raimar

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