Upkeep for summoned units

Edi · #1 April 11th, 2007, 04:38 AM

You should have a page named ArmyList in the DB (last page, iirc), which lists pretender selection, recruitable unit selection and recruitable commander selection by unit number for each nation and that has mentions of capital only. The main display page does not, because it is intended only to list the units (all of them), not make any distinction between national recruitments. It would be further complicated by some units being available to more than one nation (e.g. all non-sacred EA Van infantry are both Vanheim and Helheim units).

It would be possible to make display pages for all the different nations (too much work, really) or for all the different eras and only include the unit numbers for units that are in. If something belongs to multiple nations, have it there several times. Then add a nation column and enter that data there by hardcoding. The downside would be another large number of data retrieval from arrays, which increases file size and number of calculations and slows things down even more. So I'd rather not do it. At least not the whole display. Maybe unit ID, name and nation + capital only status and do it per era, then sort by nation.

I was figuring on doing everything in OO for the next version and then doing an export to Excel when that was ready.

mivayan · #2 April 11th, 2007, 03:27 PM

If all you want to know is the upkeep, I made a little text file with unit number, name, gold cost, resource cost, sacred-or-not, upkeep.

I copied some columns from Dom3_DB_WeaponsArmorUnits_RC-1_0.ods, added the upkeep formula, and saved as a .csv file. Hope Edi doesn't mind.

Wyehl · #3 April 11th, 2007, 06:16 PM

Interesting. I had thought I recalled someone saying that Davana's were 20 gold a turn upkeep. But the text file lists it as 0 upkeep. Anyone know for sure which is correct ?

Edi · #4 April 11th, 2007, 06:43 PM

No, I don't mind. After all, I did not have direct upkeep info in the DB.

Davanas are 0 upkeep, Mandaha's are 20 (would be 40 if they were not sacred).

UncleYee · #5 April 11th, 2007, 09:45 PM

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mivayan said:
If all you want to know is the upkeep, I made a little text file with unit number, name, gold cost, resource cost, sacred-or-not, upkeep.

I copied some columns from Dom3_DB_WeaponsArmorUnits_RC-1_0.ods, added the upkeep formula, and saved as a .csv file. Hope Edi doesn't mind.

Thanks for the file! Very helpful.