FYI: Carried over from the Inquisition thread, which should have been here all along.
Time for another status update. Mines can now enter foriegn territory if the two players are at war. Code specifically prevents mines from arming within 2 plots of any enemy city. Again, you can only arm the mine outside the 2 plot radius of an enemy city and only if you are at war. When a human player's mine detonates, the plot is given a detonation label to help see the result of mine combat. The AI sweeper code is very effective at scanning and removing mines. After extensive play testing, several difficult to find bugs were all fixed. In the late game on a huge map, multiple mine explosions and sweeper actions were taking place for every civ on every turn. I now consider the SDK version of mine warfare to be complete and the next step is to merge it with my new OGI project. Finally! The amount of hours spent on this project has been enormous. The race is on to complete the entire project in time for Thanksgiving. A tall order, but I believe it is achievable.
If the Mine Warfare Project is complete and not merged yet, is it possible to release it or let us get our hands on it as an attachment?
I have done so with all of my mods up to this point. There are 37 new SDK functions to make Mine Warfare work and most importantly to make the AI know how to use it very effectively. Since this version of Mine Warfare revolutionizes the game in such a big way, I have decided to make it the carrot to encourage people to play the ultimate game of Civ4, OGI (IMHO). The Mine warfare SDK code is well documented and could be extracted, if you really want it. So, to build up the excitement for OGI, I will not release the stand alone SDK version of Mine Warfare at this time. You will have to wait until OGI is released to get your hands on the SDK. I appologize, but this idea was recommended to me by the historian to foster excitement and encourage people to play OGI.
BTW, I ran another interesting test. I wanted to determine what would occur first on a plot, combat or the detonation of a mine. It turns out that combat occurs first and then the detonation of the mine. So if you attack an enemy unit that sits on a plot with an enemy mine; combat with the unit on the plot occurs first. If you loose, the enemy mine does not detonate. If you win combat, then the mine will be detonated. So, if the attacking unit suffers damage from combat, it will still suffer more damage or even destruction from the detonation of the enemy mine after combat. This sets up an interesting tactic to lure a would be attacker to a mine plot by sentrying an old weaker unit on the plot. The strategy in Mine Warfare is endless!
The obsolete units won't thwart the Mine Sweeper, as it is invisible and can perform it's mission, unhindered by any other units that may exist on a plot. The sweeper either succeeds or fails. Failure to remove the mine results in the destruction of the sweeper. The obsolete units are good for luring advanced enemy units, as you say to their doom.
