Supreme Economy

[Axle]

I want to make some fixes to the Supreme Economy mod (mass consumption is inaccurate due to rounding errors). However there are a few versions:

- "v3" doesn't work.
- "EM-edition v2" is the most recently updated
- "2.1 (noloag) v2.1" also works and has a higher version number, but is older

so ... Anyone know whats going on with these different versions? which one should I modify and upload?

[nine2]

I have been working on a competitor to that for the last few days... whilst I love the mod, it has lots and lots of problems. On the way I discovered that the unit view (hover over unit display) and economy overlay have lots of problems too. I'm slowly getting it there.

I always used 2.1 (noloag) v2.1, its good
I used v3 but didn't like it - it was very different, showing eco usage bars over the units themselves on the map - not in its own ui on the left
Never heard of the EM edition, would be interested to know what it's about.

Re the problem that you mentioned (mass consumption due to rounding errors), that is not something you can fix in a UI mod because the figures are rounded before they get to the UI mod layer. So if you have 100 mantis each assisting a t3 factory they use something like 0.4 mass which should equate to 40 mass - but the UI layer sees zero. The solution is to integrate a fix into the FAF base code that sends the decimal figures to the UI layer ... which I've got working and can send you once I straighten some things out.

[nine2]

v3:

[Axle]

Hi Anhilnine! That's interesting that you can correct the rounding error in the FAF code base. I assumed that since no one ever bothered to fix it (in the mouse-over tooltip for the units) that the rounding was done in the FA exe.

The solution that I came up with is actually a UI-only work-around (its still not 100% accurate, but it does improve accuracy significantly). Basically the approach is to work out mass consumption by looking at energy consumption. It only gets a little hairy when you consider eg ACU upgrades and radar energy consumption. But I believe I've got it working reasonably. I want to test it a bit longer before I upload a patched version though. Anyway, relevant code below in case you're interested.

Thanks for that information about v2.1. I did noticed yesterday that I had some intolerable UI lag with the EM edition when I put it on +10 speed. I did a diff on the v2.1 and the EM edition. It looks like v2.1 is retrieving unit data a bit differently (presumably to reduce lag), whereas the EM edition looks like someone has changed it to use the Common Mod tools to retrieve unit data.

I'm looking forward to seeing your competitor mod, hopefully I can ditch Supreme Economy and use yours instead when its released!

Code: Select all

econData = unit:GetEconData()
...

local blueprint = unitToGetDataFrom:GetBlueprint()

-- econData.energyConsumed generally has more significant figures than econData.massConsumed
-- so here we use energyConsumed to work out a more precise massConsumed
local energyAdjusted = 0.5+econData.energyConsumed
local massAdjusted = 0.5+econData.massConsumed
local candidateMassCosts = { }
candidateMassCosts["upkeep"] = 0
candidateMassCosts["unit"] = energyAdjusted*blueprint.Economy.BuildCostMass/blueprint.Economy.BuildCostEnergy
if blueprint.Enhancements then
  for k,v in pairs(blueprint.Enhancements) do
    if v.BuildCostEnergy > 0 then
        candidateMassCosts[k] = energyAdjusted*v.BuildCostMass/v.BuildCostEnergy
    end
  end
end

local bestFitDesc = false
local bestFitMass = false
for k,v in pairs(candidateMassCosts) do
  if (not bestFitMass) or math.abs(v-massAdjusted) < math.abs(bestFitMass-massAdjusted) then
    bestFitDesc = k
    bestFitMass = v
  end
end

if bestFitMass then
  econData = { energyConsumed=energyAdjusted, massConsumed=bestFitMass }
end


[nine2]

That's some pretty out of the box thinking there. It's still not perfect but it's more accurate. Nice one

[IceDreamer]

Please do drop any relevant under the hood accuracy improvements as PRs onto the main FA git repo, the base game needs help in this area

[nine2]

Onto it like measles

[Saxxon]

That's some deep stuff. I'd love to see this working again, not sure if this is the one that had the T1, T2 and T3 mex shown on side, but that was a big help too as it let you select all mex of a given tech, and if they had mass storage around them or not.

[nine2]

2.1 (nolag) is working today and in the mod vault.

[watermelon]

2.1 (nolag) is working today and in the mod vault.

It says "Uploaded 2014-04-13"? Or does the upload date not adjust when mods are updated?