aoe2-resource-simulator/description.md

TODO

• Get aoe info
  • API for it somewhere?
• Write simple code
• Write tests
• Write GUI

Deal with getting housed

Put villagers on resource sources

• what to do about farms?
  • one villager per
  • run out occaisionally and must be rebuilt

Outline

Timeline of villager production

• should be able to duplicate them easily and make modifications to compare
• throws an error if a task is impossible and a warning if you get idle time

Design

Was originally doing object-centric: each thing contained all information about itself. For example, a Blacksmith was a thing (class) that had fields representing a cost, a time to build, an Age requirement, etc. However, this led to circular dependencies. For example, a Blacksmith required Feudal Age, and Castle Age optionally required a Blacksmith. This made it difficult in Python to have Ages and Buildings in separate files. They had to import each other, which is not possible in any simple way in Python.

Instead, data is stored in an attribute-centric way. Costs is a class, and it holds costs for Blacksmith, Feudal Age, Militia, and everything else. Dependencies is another class, and Times (i.e., build or unit production times) is yet another, and others are added as needed.

If you think of the information needed as residing in a table with the rows representing entities (House, Villager, etc.) and the columns representing attributes (Cost, Build Time, etc.), we are storing the data by column rather than by row. As an aside, this is similar to what I've seen described as the fundamental difference between object-oriented (row-based) and functional (column-based) programming, though I'm still using classes and objects.

Scratch

def create(self):
    self.

    # Assume entries sorted by time
    # Not necessarily from user, but from queue_villager and move_villager

Class Task():
    requires = {"wood": "lumber camp"}
    # what if more villagers than farms?

Assumptions

• Fixed gather rate for each resource
  • what about food -- hunt vs farm?
• At least one TC always exists
• Using no civ bonuses for now