Resource Depletion

[Dave]

Awesome stuff Pikka , Awesome stuff.

[wallyweb]

Second round of testing results:
I like it! I like it!
I see what you mean about when the mine is off screen. I wonder if that happens with the original, un-grf'd, TTDX mines and other industries.

[athanasios]

Pikka always surprises us!

[Csaboka]

I'm afraid the bug is in the GRF, not in TTDPatch.

(NFO technobabble follows, those who don't code GRFs can just skip the rest of this post.)

You manage your persistent variables in the beginning of the action2 chain, before reading variable 0C. This ensures that your variables get updated as soon as the chain is called, no matter what the reason is. The problem is, however, that the chain may not be called at all, for a long time. When you have the industry window open, callback 3A is called regularly, and keeps your scheme working. When you close the window, however, the only reason the chain may be called is callback 29, which happens at random intervals, so it's not suitable for your scheme.

I'd suggest enabling callback 35, and handling stockpile changes during it. You don't need to actually change the production with the callback, you can just use it to have something that's called every month. The added benefit would be that you could remove the logic that detects when a month change occurs - whenever callback 35 is called, you can be sure that exactly one month has passed since the last callback 35.

I'll wait for your feedback, and I'll close the bug in the tracker if my solution fixes your problem.

[PikkaBird]

I didn't need to change the action 2 chains at all; merely setting bit 5 in prop 21 seems to have fixed the bug. Thanks Csaba.

[Csaboka]

Well, yes, that is the quick and dirty way. You should probably do it the proper way for the official release, though, especially because it saves a persistent register and some logic for you.

[PikkaBird]

Okay, PBI and the brick chain have been updated with this feature. I'll go and bump that thread.

[George]

With a delay of 4 months ECS beta 4 has this feature too.