[Question] Any idea what "iPlacementOrder" is for?

[padillah]

I'm maling a world generator and I'm looking at the XML to learn more about what resources can go where and I came across "iPlacementOrder" in Civ4BonusInfos.xml.

Does anyone know what it's for? Anyone know of a good detail description of the XML files, at all?

Tom P.

[Bhruic]

My guess (and only a guess) would be that it determines the order in which resources are placed on maps. That is, resources with lower numbers get placed first, then in ascending order. A good way to make sure the 'necessary' resources (iron, oil, etc) get placed before the more optional ones.

Bh

[padillah]

I thought that too, and it holds: IRON is 0, COPPER and HORSES are 1, etc. until DRAMA, MUSIC, and MOVIES which are -1.

What the heck? Do they get placed first?

[Peter Triggs]

Those are the ones that don't get put on the map.

[MarkG]

iPlacementOrder?

probably some new apple software for store management

[rjwoer]

Yep. You guys are right: It has to do with the placement of the resources during the creation of a map. Here's the full breakdown if you're interested:

-1 = Not placed during map construction
0 (1st) = Iron, Oil
1 (2nd) = Copper, Horse
2 (3rd) = Marble, Stone, (Salt in my mod)
3 (4th) = Banana, Corn, Cow, Deer, Pig, Rice, Sheep, Wheat
4 (5th) = Dye, Fur, Gems, Gold, Incense, Ivory, Silk, Silver, Spices, Sugar, Wine, (Coffee, Tobacco in my mod)
5 (6th) = Clam, Crab, Fish, Whale, (Pearl in my mod)

[padillah]

Originally posted by rjwoer
Yep. You guys are right: It has to do with the placement of the resources during the creation of a map. Here's the full breakdown if you're interested:

-1 = Not placed during map construction
0 (1st) = Iron, Oil
1 (2nd) = Copper, Horse
2 (3rd) = Marble, Stone, (Salt in my mod)
3 (4th) = Banana, Corn, Cow, Deer, Pig, Rice, Sheep, Wheat
4 (5th) = Dye, Fur, Gems, Gold, Incense, Ivory, Silk, Silver, Spices, Sugar, Wine, (Coffee, Tobacco in my mod)
5 (6th) = Clam, Crab, Fish, Whale, (Pearl in my mod)

Cool, so when are the -1's placed? When drama is discovered? Some other time? Never?

Thanks for the help, BTW. I Wonder how hard it would be to make my map generator extensable...

Tom P.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by padillah
Cool, so when are the -1's placed? When drama is discovered? Some other time? Never?

I think they are placed when you construct the appropiate national wonders (Broadway, Hollywood, Rock'n'Roll, IIRC).

[rjwoer]

I think they are placed when you construct the appropiate national wonders (Broadway, Hollywood, Rock'n'Roll, IIRC)

Yes, basically. Although they never really need to be placed: they are simply awarded to whichever player constructs those wonders--so they aren't "placed" in a map sense.

[platypotamus]

Is there some sort of limit to the number of resources that end up on a map?

If placement order is just used to make sure that more important resources get placed, it seems pointless to have all of the sea resources on the same priority level? It could explain why it seems as if there are never very many of them in my games though.

[padillah]

I don't know about the built-in map generator but I am going for a two stage approach. At first I'll base resources on the size of the map. But my second phase will allow you to specify how many resources and what percentage of the resources will be what resource.

I don't think the built-in generator cares one way or the other.

Tom P.