PowerPoints attribute in Units.txt

[Sarxis]

What is this attribute for? It is listed below the ShieldCost line in the file. Any idea?

[Paul]

It does nothing. It was already there in CTP1; I believe it was a feature that was never implemented.

[FreeChina]

Maybe its used to calculate the power graph?

[TheBirdMan]

It is.

Read more in the CtP-Multiplayer section, Power Graph Interpreted (By Quinns).

[Matte979]

You sure it is used. I tried messing around with it as the figures seemed way off. But don't seem to affect the powergraph.

[skorpion59]

Paul is right. Powerpoints were never implemented. They don't do anything.

[Mr Ogre]

It's for luck!

No, just kidding, it doesn't do anything. It was supposed to be a multiplayer option, you'd get X "Power Points" at the start of the game with which to purchase initial units and cities. It would have sped the start of the game a little bit, but there's a lot of stuff in this game and it was a bit unwieldly. Being able to set your starting gold is not quite as fast or cool, but works out about the same in the end.

[Sarxis]

Thanx all- this has helped me to understand units.txt even more. Some very interesting stuff in there, btw.

Ever heard of Frigates? ;¬)

[Immortal Wombat]

Originally posted by Mr Ogre
No, just kidding, it doesn't do anything. It was supposed to be a multiplayer option, you'd get X "Power Points" at the start of the game with which to purchase initial units and cities. It would have sped the start of the game a little bit, but there's a lot of stuff in this game and it was a bit unwieldly

Who wants some SLICing

[J Bytheway]

Can you access the PowerPoints field through SLIC? Presumably you can, and it might be handy for all sorts of data that you want to asociate with units for mod purposes.

[Immortal Wombat]

Supposedly, you can access any integer or floating point variable within any single block of almost any text file. So presumably you can access the powerpoints of any unit. But in practice, I've never had much luck with it.