0.0/1 health and still kicking !!

[MadDjinn]

is this a documented thing, or just a really weird rounding issue?

[Jaybe]

It's just a rounding issue on your strength display, happens rarely.

[Solver]

It's a very, very rare rounding issue. Sometimes it takes the form of showing up as, say, 1.0/1 health.

[MadDjinn]

ah, k...

[Nikolai]

Solver, just admit it: This is really a feature from Warlords mistakenly added in 1.61, called the scrouge of the living dead.

[Solver]

Yep. And Warlord units have a "activate undead" ability, which instantly summons every one of your dead units to fight for you.

[Myrddin]

Someone, somewhere is now writing the mod.....

[gdijedi7]

What probably happened is the programmers typed:

< 0 instead of <=0

thereby saying that a unit dies when it's health is less than zero rather than less than or equal to 0. Very interesting.

[Nikolai]

Or it could be like the one in the know said.

[MadDjinn]

hmm... MoM 2 mod?

[Solver]

Civ4 doesn't even use a < 0 or <=0 statement to determine if a unit is dead, instead it checks if the damage done >= max. hit points.

[Ijuin]

However, if the unit has enough hit points, then being reduced to somewhere between 0 and 0.1 health could result in a display of 0.0.

[GeoModder]

[Solver]

Units have 100 hit points. Their health isn't the same as hit points. Obviously, for a Knight of str 10, 1 strength point = 10 hit points.

[RGBVideo]

What probably happened is the programmers typed:

< 0 instead of <=0

No

Hit points are always rounded to the nearest 1/10's when displayed. So this unit had 0 < x < 0.05 HPs left. I've seen this thing earlier, in 1.00 release, and thought the explanation would be obvious for everyone who saw it in their game.

Solver: Could the programmers fix this by writing something like IF hp > 0 AND hp < 0.05 THEN DISPLAY <0.01 or something like that? I know pretty much nothing about the way cIV has been coded.