Yes and no. It's relatively easy to remove the escort requirement from units but it would be quite a bit more difficult to add the requirement. The problem is that it's hard-coded in the executable which unit types require escort. I haven't seen the requires escort flag used anywhere in the unit AI. That flag may be completely unused, I can't say for sure since I haven't checked the logic for king units, but at least for artillery I don't see it used anywhere. Removing the escort requirement is much easier since I can modify the functions that check the state of a unit's escort to basically return "OK" if the flag isn't set on the unit's type. That would involve modifying three functions, so it's not as easy as it could be, but still relatively easy. So instead of strictly enforcing the flag for all units, I'll add an option to remove the escort requirement from artillery units if they don't have the "requires escort" flag.
This is another case where the hardest part would be reading in the requested changes from the config file. Implementing the change would be easy since the game has functions to retrieve each civ's name, adjective, etc. as needed that I could modify. BTW, the reason there are functions for that is so the game can check whether that player has a custom name set or whether or use the names from the scenario data.
If Electric Power is a strategic resource, it should appear over the building icons when it's being generated. I wonder why it's not.
I looked into that flag a while back and was left with the impression that it would be rather difficult to modify. Just something about how it's programmed makes that awkward. I might take a second look though.
If you have the turn timer on, the mod turns off animations during the interturn so they don't contribute to the time.
I am wondering, too - but I don´t miss that icon, as the added shields behind the building in my eyes are hint enough. May be the icon over the building is not appearing, when the resource is linked to a tech, that no civ can have.
Ah of course. I missed that in the notes. Great debug feature! Then audio glitches are my only remaining obstacle on Linux. Do you think that's an area C3X could potentially address, or is it more likely a platform issue?
Could you at least have the option to remove escort requirements from any type of unit that would otherwise require some? Not just artillery. Personally, I would be most interested in using that option for wooden sailing ships with transport ability, like Galleons. I don't think they need to be escorted in my mod, as they can hold their own, and don't transport many units. But Transports and Carriers would need at least 1 or 2 escorts. In the vanilla game, these are the only two units with the "Requires Escorts" flag checked. I don't know if that actually makes any difference.
For all naval ships, this is already implemented in the latest version. I think it’s been there for a while actually.
Techs wouldn't matter for drawing the icon, only determining whether the resource is being generated. If it is, the mod simply grabs the icon from resources.pcx to draw it, whether or not the resource is revealed by a tech would have nothing to do with it. This is probably a bug in how the mod looks up the location of the icon on the PCX image. I'll have to investigate more. Since you'd prefer the resource icon not to appear, I'll add an option for that. It's trivial to do, literally like a 3 minute job.
I have no idea what's causing the audio glitches but I think it's fixable since not all sound files are affected. When I played a couple of hours on Wine, I noticed there was one sound effect in particular, some kind of background bird chirping, that always got stuck in a loop whenever it randomly played. That at least gives me a starting point to investigate the issue.
Sure, that shouldn't be any more difficult than removing the requirement from only artillery units. I think the logic that determines the state of a unit's escort is common to all types.
I'll have to listen more closely but I thought it could happen to any ambience sfx. If we can replace them with dummy files that's good enough for me. I also get a sharp clicking in low-frequency sounds like unit footsteps, but maybe that's just me.
Ideally we could figure out what's wrong with them and then have C3X fix the files as they're loaded. Surely the audio data itself is not the problem but rather it's something to do with the metadata, like the files are malformed in a way that Windows compensates for but Wine doesn't. I didn't hear any clicks on unit footstep sounds but that may because I didn't trigger any.
There it is. The problem is the mod looks up resource icons based on the index of the resource itself instead of the index of the resource's icon. I totally forgot that you can change the icon for each resource in the editor and only tested against base game resources where the resource indices and icon indices match. At least it's an easy fix.
Understood, but (personally) I like knowing the "original" of what the Grand Master is working from, for e.g., errors/conflicts/The Unexpected which might arise.
Aerial zone of control works the same way as regular ZoC, so it only hits units moving between adjacent tiles. I don't remember why I limited it to air units with operational range > 0. That limit might be totally arbitrary.
