Re: Feature Request: Advance Prohibits Advance

[Eric McDonald <mcdonald at phy dot cmich dot edu>]

mskala@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca wrote:

> Can't we make some advances require particular materials?  I think we
> already can, and if not, that would be easy to add.  Then we could easily
> do both behaviours.  For "you may only have one of these advances",
> there's a material of which you only get a little bit, and you need all of
> it to do either advance.  Once you have done one, you can't do the other.  
> For "it's very hard, but possible, to do both of these advances", it's a
> similar story, but you can eventually with a lot of work gain more of the
> special material.

From kernel/table.def:
DEF_AM_TABLE("advance-consumption-per-rp", am_consumption_per_rp,
        "amount of material consumed to add one research point to this 
advance",        amconsumptionperrp, constamconsumptionperrp, 0, 0, 
TABHI, TABINT)

If I understand what you're saying, you're suggesting that each side 
should have a finite quantity of a certain material in its treasury, and 
that material can only be used to research one, and no more than one, 
advance. The chosen advance then sets the tone for which other advances 
can be reserached (through the 'advance-needed-to-research' table).

Eric