Unofficialcrusaderpatch: Values for AI Iron Mine Count

[ByBurton]

[Help Wanted]

The AI has a variable that describes how many iron mines it builds. But it is weird.
It is not the maximum amount it should build.
Here a list of all AI chars and their value:
Sultan: 0
Rat: 0
Snake: 0
Abbot: 10
Caliph: 12
Emir: 10
Frederick: 10
Marshal: 7
Nizar: 10
Philipp: 7
Pig: 10
Richard: 10
Saladin: 12
Sheriff: 12
Wazir: 12
Wolf: 13

How do these values represent the iron mine count?

I know they do, because when I change the 0 of the rat to a 1 or 2 or 10, he builds one iron mine.

[Truetobi91]

As you stated it's obviously not the maximum number of iron mines and also not an indirect value for that (like # of workers rounded down or something along those lines).

This is the AIs sorted by the amount of maximum iron mines and their respective value from your variable:

(0) Sultan; Snake; Rat all -> 0
(1) Caliph -> 12
(2) Abbot -> 10; Nizar -> 10
(3) Marshal -> 7; Phillip -> 7; Pig -> 10; Wolf -> 13; Wazir -> 12; Emir -> 10
(4) Richard -> 10; Saladin -> 12
(5) Frederick -> 10
(6) Sheriff -> 12

The first thing I thought about could be some sort of "stocking behaviour" but that doesn't make sense at least for abbot that doesn't store any iron but has a value of 10.

The second and maybe more accurate idea could be the building priority for iron mines with a lower number being a higher priority to build them (e.g. Philipp having the lowest value while Wazir; Emir and Saladin have high values for a low priority. Wolf having maybe a low priority on iron but a higher priority on stone to finish his castle).

Can you test what happens if you set the value to like 100 for certain AIs or does that not work as [7][10][12][13] are some fixed values of the games script?

[ByBurton]

No, different values do work. I had tested with values from 1 to 13 for the rat, and each did result in a single iron mine.

Another thing: Quarries do work like you would think. Wolf has a "6" there, and builds 6. Rat has 1 there and builds 1. The snake has 2 there and builds 2, etc. EXCEPT for King Philipp. He has a 1 there but does not build one.

When I am home I could test with values like 100.

[Sh0wdown]

The resource buildings depend on two parameters

1. PopulationPer"ResourceBuilding"
2. Max"ResourceBuilding"s

So the AI builds one resource building for each population amount of "PopulationPerResourceBuilding".

PopulationPerQuarry = 9
MaxQuarries = 6

Wolf builds 6 quarries total for each 9 peasants. So he theoretically builds his maximum amount when he reaches a total population of 6*9 = 54.

PopulationPerQuarry = 0
MaxQuarries = 1

If "PopulationPerQuarry" is set to zero, no buildings of that type are built. That's why Philipp builds no quarries.
https://github.com/Sh0wdown/UnofficialCrusaderPatch/commit/29f248d70a01b6adc25b060869bc9a65e19fec94