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Re: ACP after type change

From: Eric McDonald <mcdonald at phy dot cmich dot edu>
To: mskala at ansuz dot sooke dot bc dot ca
Cc: xconq7 at sources dot redhat dot com
Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 17:23:55 -0600
Subject: Re: ACP after type change
References: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0405161835260.27483-100000@diamond.ansuz.sooke.bc.ca>

On Sun, 2004-05-16 at 17:19, mskala@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca wrote:
> This isn't a huge problem, but I think it's not really the most desirable
> behaviour:  on "change type", the newly-changed unit is given 0 ACP, and
> then the ACP to do the change is subtracted *after* the change; so if (as
> might often be the case) the unit is changing its own type, it ends up
> with -(the cost of the change) as its ACP after the change regardless of
> how many ACP it might have had before.  I'd rather see the ACP for the
> change subtracted first, and then the resulting value applied
> proportionally (as happens with HP, but maybe without the bonus "cannot be
> negative" feature that applies to HP).

I'll look into it as soon as I finish testing the patch I am working on.

Eric

References:
- ACP after type change
  - From: mskala

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