Re: Matagorda - Block Cotton selling
Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2017 6:13 pm
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It did occur to me to try to link the blockade percent to the $50 event, though, I was thinking it could affect the amount earned. If it affected both the amount earned and the success chance that would be great. But I figured it probably wouldn't be possible in the event system so I chucked it. I also wasn't sure if cotton in the $50 event was supposed to represent overseas shipping or if it was only about Mexican trade.
I think the Export Cotton event and the current Export Cotton RGD are trying to represent two different trade routes, and I think that is the correct way to view them.
Cardinal Ape wrote:Other methods might try to count ships in the boxes to base results off of. Perhaps the amount of CS blockade runners in the boxes could affect the chance of success, and/or the amount earned as well. Evaluating Union ship counts in the boxes might work as a substitute for determining the blockade percent in events.
I hadn't actually thought about counting the number of runners in the Blockade Boxes. Since I suspect that the EvalBlockade command itself won't even support the DICE_NOT parameter, to program considering both the blockade value and the number of runners, although probably the most comprehensive application of Export Cotton, would require a huge number of events, basically looking something like this:
For each range of the Blockade Value in steps of 5 or 10--ie from 0, 1-10, from 11-20, from 21-30, etc--you would need an entire set of events evaluating the number of runners in the Blockade Boxes--ie from 0, 1-3, 4-6, 7-9, etc--used perform a percentage chance check if Cotton got sneaked through the blockade, and if successful, how much money it would give the South.
That's a whole lot of events to check for the success of exporting Cotton.
Cardinal Ape wrote:Lacking a check for a valid transport route in the export RGD you could do a check against the abstract river and/or rail pools. If the pools are below medium at the start of the turn then the RGD fails or sumesuch.
Since transporting Cotton is a private venture, it should have nothing to do with the Rail and Riverine Pools.
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