Help pages for units to include cost?

Post by **irrevenant** » October 31st, 2005, 9:09 am

It would be great if the unit pages in the help browser included the cost for recruiting the unit in gold. In multiplayer especially (where the sides are even) economic factors are important (eg. is it worth sacrificing my horseman to take out his mage?).

*EDIT* Prometheus has posted the code to do so a few messages down

Post by **Dragonking** » October 31st, 2005, 10:56 am

I agree - it would be great help for new players, or players who don't remember ecactly every unit's cost.

appleide · Post by **appleide** » October 31st, 2005, 11:01 am

me too.

Elvish_Pillager · Post by **Elvish_Pillager** » October 31st, 2005, 11:38 am

Agreed.

Tomsik · Post by **Tomsik** » October 31st, 2005, 12:34 pm

Yeah, its good idea, and i think it dont need much work to be implemented. *Looks at devs"

Prometheus · Post by **Prometheus** » March 22nd, 2006, 3:06 am

It's a single line, in help.cpp

<< _("Moves: ") << type_.movement() << jump(30)
<< _("Cost: ") << type_.cost() << jump(30)
<< _("Alignment: ")

add the middle line. This works in 1.02, I would be very surprised if it doesn't work elsewhere.

edit: Just noticed, in 800x600 mode, this change causes some of the xp text for some units to wrap, it goes on too long. Changing the jump(30) to jump(20) seems to work for everything.

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ss << _("HP: ") << type_.hitpoints() << jump(20)
<< _("Moves: ") << type_.movement() << jump(20)
<< _("Cost: ") << type_.cost() << jump(20)
<< _("Alignment: ")

Post by **irrevenant** » March 22nd, 2006, 11:44 am

Prometheus wrote:It's a single line, in help.cpp
<< _("Moves: ") << type_.movement() << jump(30)
<< _("Cost: ") << type_.cost() << jump(30)
<< _("Alignment: ")
add the middle line. This works in 1.02, I would be very surprised it doesn't work elsewhere.
This was from the BWH list, which seems to be a semi-approved feature request list.

Well done!

IMO, that constitutes a code contribution, so I'm going to move this thread over there.