Spring RTS Engine

Can spring suport three resorses? I am thinking of geo vents as a third resorses.

yes, and geo as third would be nice. But it's prolly not gonna happen as we have asked many many times for it and gotten shot down each time.

With lua you could remake the Settlers if you really wanted to.

KDR_11 has written some LUA that uses alternative resources for his newest minigame. It appears that Zpock has also done so, for his space game. I'd like to see Zpock's sourcecode for that, frankly, it looks like it might be more useful.

Nobody's written a really generic multi-resource set of LUA, suitable for plug-and-play into a fairly standard RTS, however.

There are traces of an undeveloped Supply resource in the Spring code but that's not very useful.

Lua resources are easy to implement. Fibre isn't a good example if you plan on a mostly traditional economy but a simple resource grafted onto the current system would be fairly easy (AllowBuildStep for handling the resource drain on construction I think).

Back when spring was a 19th century warfare sim on SJs computer SJ used the supply resource.

Then he added metal and energy and never quite finished removing the supply resource.

If you see it in the spring code theres a 99.9% chance its deadweight code and should be factored out and deleted.

ooh i'd like a mod like settlers.

Good, then get started .

The resson I asked is because I like AoE 2 and it's 4 resorses because you relly had to manege your resorses or you where dead.
If you want 4 resorses you could use trees as a forth one.

Or you could make your own maps with all the different resources you need...

I want people to be able to play with three or four resorses on any map.

the game module has to support the 3 resources otherwise you are wasting your time and if the game module supports them you can actually place them on the map via lua.

Yeah but it's better for the map to place that to account for its geography.