Re: Correct behavior of 'speed-occupant-effect' table?

[Hans Ronne <hronne at comhem dot se>]

>So the question is, what should we do to fix it?
>I personally don't like the idea two values (0% and 100%) meaning
>the same thing wrt the application of this table, so I think we
>should leave it the way it is, and change the docs to reflect
>this.
>Perhaps we should have an additional TableUU,
>'occupant-adds-speed'. This would be more useful than a
>multiplicative factor in some cases, such as the one I have in
>mind (up to 2 tugboats can be "occupants" of a chain of barges,
>each one adding 100% speed to the naturally ACP 1, speed 0
>barges).

What I usually do in cases like this is check what games use the table and
how. From your description, updating the docs seems reasonable.

As for having both multiplicative and additive effects, I have made several
table pairs like that. See the occupant_add_ and occupant_multiply_ tables.
It all depends on whether you need either or both in a specific game.

Hans