Question: Why cap windspeed?

[Jazcash]

This isn't so much of a request, but more of a query. Why is windspeed capped at a maximum of 25? There's a fair few maps which have higher max windspeeds than 25 but can't go higher because of the cap.

Why is there a cap and if nobody knows, could we remove it?

[BrainDamage]

it's not an engine's cap, it's a mod's cap:

grep -R windGenerator BA712/*
BA712/units/corwin.fbi: windGenerator=25;
BA712/units/armwin.fbi: windGenerator=25;

engine code that uses it:

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		if (unitDef->windGenerator > 0.0f) {
			if (wind.GetCurrentStrength() > unitDef->windGenerator) {
 				AddEnergy(unitDef->windGenerator * 0.5f);
			} else {
 				AddEnergy(wind.GetCurrentStrength() * 0.5f);
			}
		}

solution: set windGenerator tags in the mod to huge numbers

[Jazcash]

Oh ok, thanks. I should probably play something other than BA

[CarRepairer]

In CA you can set the windspeed in the modoptions when you host. Set it to 7000 if you want energy so bad.

[bobthedinosaur]

I thought wind speed wasn't even an engine value but is set up in mods/games via lua. Is this still the case?