Unit Ids

submarine · Post by **submarine** » 30 Nov 2005, 21:45

Does anybody know how the id a unit gets in the game is determined?

is it just an integer between 1 and MAX_UNITS?

Kuroneko · Post by **Kuroneko** » 01 Dec 2005, 02:09

In a two player game, the commanders are IDs 1 and 2, the next thing built is 3, and so forth. This is a departure from how TA did it. TA made it so that with a 500 unit cap, commander 1 was 1, and commander 2 was 501.

Post by **jcnossen** » 01 Dec 2005, 02:20

Actually it maintains a list of free unit ids, FILO style. It begins with the 4999 as unit id.

Kuroneko · Post by **Kuroneko** » 01 Dec 2005, 02:37

Zaphod wrote:Actually it maintains a list of free unit ids, FILO style. It begins with the 4999 as unit id.

Really? I coulda sworn it was the other way...

submarine · Post by **submarine** » 01 Dec 2005, 14:10

ok thats what i wanted to hear :) it means that a unit id can never be higher than the max. number of units, right?

krogothe · Post by **krogothe** » 01 Dec 2005, 17:34

yes zaph is right, and following his logic then the answer is yes. But what happens if theres a lot of players and the unit limit is higher than 500?

Post by SJ » 01 Dec 2005, 19:15

It will set unitlimit to 5000/number of teams if its higher than that.

krogothe · Post by **krogothe** » 01 Dec 2005, 20:23

I could swear i saw somewhere the unitlimit was 10k
then again 5k units is more then enough!

AF · Post by AF » 01 Dec 2005, 20:29

All our AI's use arrays of 10,000 to store returned arrays of untis, with the expectation that the engien ahs a maximum of 10000. I knew this was true in version 0.4 but I wasnt aware ti had changed.

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Unit Ids

Unit Ids