Hi folks, just a thought about the way outbreaks of disease are handled by events. We select a random unit or SelMostNumGroup but it would be nice to prevent a group being selected if it is in a very good location - town with depot for example.
I don't think there is a way of doing this at the moment?
Cheers, Chris
Having given this 5 minutes more thought it seems it would be almost possible to do this.
Using a :-
SelMostNumGroup with a :-
EvalRgnStruc $Venango|FACALL|STRUCDEF $Depot|NOT
would prevent the disease event if a depot existed in the region that was selected by SelMostNumGroup. Snag is that you have to give a region (in this case $Venango) to the EvalRgnStruc command - but with SelMostNumGroup the region selected is random so you can't hard code the region into the event.
Cheers, Chris
Using a :-
SelMostNumGroup with a :-
EvalRgnStruc $Venango|FACALL|STRUCDEF $Depot|NOT
would prevent the disease event if a depot existed in the region that was selected by SelMostNumGroup. Snag is that you have to give a region (in this case $Venango) to the EvalRgnStruc command - but with SelMostNumGroup the region selected is random so you can't hard code the region into the event.
Cheers, Chris
It would also be nice if supply elements were not counted for SelMostNumGroup. I think the command is mainly used for inflicting disease - and supply should help prevent this rather than make it more likely. If SelMostNumGroup is used for other reasons it would still be hard to see why supply should be included in the count.
If this was changed though - it might mean existing scenarios would have to be updated.
Cheers, Chris
If this was changed though - it might mean existing scenarios would have to be updated.
Cheers, Chris
To say the truth (should I?) the whole system of handling diseases by event was a work-around while waiting from true code (tm) 
to be done. Now this code is planned for VGN, but I guess you don't want to wait some months before having it
to be done. Now this code is planned for VGN, but I guess you don't want to wait some months before having it 
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Pocus wrote:To say the truth (should I?) the whole system of handling diseases by event was a work-around while waiting from true code (tm)
That's interesting to hear Philippe. I can certainly wait as it is no big deal for the Pontiac scenario (and if I said I want it all now, Lodi would probably give me a good telling off
)
Cheers, Chris
Hobbes wrote:That's interesting to hear Philippe. I can certainly wait as it is no big deal for the Pontiac scenario (and if I said I want it all now, Lodi would probably give me a good telling off
Cheers, Chris
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