Re: [Freecol-developers] Hungry horses

[Michael V. <Mic...@gm...>]

On 11/30/10 19:03, hig...@bo... wrote:
>
> Michael Vehrs <Mic...@gm...> hat am 30. November 2010 um 
> 18:37 geschrieben:
>
> > Sounds great. The only issue I can see is that the warehouse is listed
> > as a consumer twice. How would we distinguish the two cases?
>
> In the general case, by adding an attribute "priority" to each 
> "consumes" declaration, like this:
>
> <building-type id="model.building.depot">
>
>   ...
> <consumes id="model.goods.food" type="percentage" value="50" 
>  priority="300"/>
>
> <consumes id="model.goods.food" type="percentage" value="100" 
> priority="500"/>
>
> </building-type>
>
> All consumption of the goods-type-class "food" would be handled in 
> priority order (from lowest to highest), so the warehouse would first 
> store 50% of whatever is available at the time the rule is called, 
> then leave the rest for other consumers, and only finally store the 
> remainder, too. The last consumption of the warehouse is a special 
> case, though: that rule does not need to be stated explicitly, but 
> could instead be derived from the fact that food can be stored - the 
> implicit rule being a total consumption with the lowest possible priority.
>
> Attached is a graphic showing how the whole food distribution could be 
> handled in this manner, including the fact that colonists (but not any 
> other consumer) can consume food from the warehouse - and even 
> implementing the "slaughtering horses to prevent starvation" 
> suggestion to show what could be possible.
>

Are you going to implement this?

Regards

Michael