Very Simple Oil System

[Chaosy]

Could have sworn I saw another oil system but the one only I found was this [vJASS] Oil Resource System

 

[deepstrasz]

Could have sworn I saw another oil system but the one only I found was this [vJASS] Oil Resource System

Well, there's these:

[GUI] Custom Resource Harvest System 1.05

Custom Resource Harvest System Description Oil harvesting like in Warcraft 2. Oil Tankers go to Oil Platforms, extract oil, and return it to the closest Oil Refinery. Configure multiple tanker, refinery and platform types. Tankers automatically find the nearest platform/refinery after...

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Baradé's Resources 1.0

Motivation Many other real time strategy games use additional resource types. For example, Warcraft II had the additional resource type Oil and games like Age of Empires have even more different resource types. There is already several systems to support custom resources in Warcraft III...

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[Chaosy]

Ah yes, the one by rulerofiron99 is the one I am thinking about.
No clue how it didn't show up when I searched.. alzheimers or something.

Anyway, maybe add optional toggle to replace lumber with oil? or even better modify the top UI so allow for all 3 instead of using a multiboard. It's probably a pet peeve but I think it looks ugly even if I know its a tech limitation I dislike it lol.

 

[deepstrasz]

Anyway, maybe add optional toggle to replace lumber with oil? or even better modify the top UI so allow for all 3 instead of using a multiboard. It's probably a pet peeve but I think it looks ugly even if I know its a tech limitation I dislike it lol.

Thanks for the feedback. The point of the system is to have a third resource a la Warcraft II. I know I've chosen a trivial and lazy way to show it (as with the platform and patch's oil storage) but I have zero UI editing experience and little time to learn (I'd rather invest in something else).
All in all, it would not be hard to modify the system to have those things by someone wanting to use it. From my perspective, systems are templates, not necessarily having to be used 100% as they are.
Soon, Antares will come and ask for a hashtable version xD

 

[Antares]

Cool system. I don't see a reason it needs hashtables.

Your description has the same vibe as me back in school having to do a presentation and apologizing in advance to everyone .

 

[Wrda]

The good:

• (maybe not so good) - an imperfect but working Warcraft II-like oil system (which very much simulates gold mining in functionality; does not use gold or lumber; the resource is purely fictional) with tankers building oil platforms on oil patches. There are three Channel based abilities of which one is for extracting and the other two for returning the oil (of which one acts like the worker's Return Resources when used and the other invisible/hidden working like when the loaded worker right clicks the main building/lumber return building). Oil is stored in a player dependent leaderboard and shows near the name of oil patches and platforms; tankers build like orcs (it's not mandatory)
• tankers remember their platform and return the oil automatically to the closest shipyard. Of course, they can be ordered anywhere
• the oil patch values (and those of preset oil platforms) can be fixed or randomized; the values are memorized between oil patches and platforms if the latter are cancelled or destroyed (an oil patch is created instead)
• returned oil values show as floating text once the tanker gets out of the shipyard
• (not really good) - advanced build system based on two unit versions, one which has all the buildings and the other only the advanced ones; the switching between them is made via adding a Berserker type ability and the triggering of the advanced build menu is done via a Berserk spell which changes the unit and forces the opening of the build menu
• (OKish) - oil based training, building and upgrades with not enough oil messages

The bad:

• since the oil platform building requires pathing as that of Haunted Goldmine, the system doesn't work along with other buildings made this way unless they are triggered to not be included in the oil platform building process. An example of such case is that you could potentially build the oil platform over a gold mine
• a tanker can't construct multiple oil platforms in a sequence (SHIFT) as there's a trigger automating the extraction immediately after the platform finishes constructing. Deactivating those triggers, however enables the multiple building in a row but will leave the tanker idle after the last platform is completed
• selection of tankers is lost when they enter extraction/oil return mode since the units are hidden and unhidden after a few seconds
• shipyards and oil platforms use a dummy ability which is added when a tanker extracts/returns oil so no other tanker gets triggered in, and removed after the process finishes; probably could be changed with some bolean/variable instead
• for some reason when more tankers are selected and some have the return and others the extract abilities, no abilities appear on the command card
• advanced building breaks if ESC is pressed instead of clicking the red crossed circle but gets fixed once ESC is hit or some other triggers related to the system run
• constructing more buildings at a time works with advanced building if SHIFT is used otherwise the workers stop if the menu is opened again
• using SHIFT to sequence building works if the last buildings are from the normal menu while the first are from advanced; the other way around as you might guess from above, stops the worker
• because there's no good way to detect a cancelled unit from a training queue, I had to resort to disabling and enabling ship training using dummy researches based on the amount of the player's current oil; the buildings and upgrade don't suffer from this because they are various types which only queue uniquely and not industrially like units; thus they can be detected as (conditional) unit/research type

Where's the ugly??? Heresy!!!

Yeah no need to self-punish, it's a promising resource for GUI

 

[Antares]

A nice system that faithfully recreates the Warcraft II oil mechanic. There are, however, some issues that need to be addressed.

You're missing importing instructions. For example, which units and abilities do I have to import? Putting all categories into a parent folder would be nice to make it easier to copy/paste.

Your system is missing a configurable part. The free parameters appear randomly scattered throughout your code. Turn these into GUI variables in a config folder and replace the hard-coded numbers with those variables. See the GUI style guide for variable naming etc. For unit oil costs, an array of unit types and oil costs would be the best solution.

I imagine this is a system that a user wants to customize to work within the confines of their map. For example, someone might want to use your oil tankers and oil patches, but use a different method to display the player's oil. How would a user achieve that? Some more documentation throughout your code would be helpful.

You need to put the unit indexer variables in a different folder than your own variables.

Chat Message Testing and Order ID Testing are empty.

I haven't looked that thoroughly through your triggers yet. I will do that once the more glaring problems are taken care of.

Awaiting Update