Re: Static Occupant Bonuses to Attack

[Hans Ronne <hronne at telia dot com>]

>I know that the following will increase a unit's
>Attack (Or other attribute):
>(table occupant-affects-attack
>	(occupant transport XXXX))
>
>However, it seems this can only be a percentage
>increase.  Is there a way to designate an actual
>bonus, so that an occupant provides, for example, a +1
>attack or +1 defense?
>
>Also, is it possible within Xconq to designate a
>unit's Attack or Defense or other value as the sum of
>its occupants Attack or Defense or other value?
>

Not at present. Additive effects would not be too hard to implement,
though. We have both additive and multiplicative effects in some other
cases, such as occupant-add-production and occupant-multiply-production.

Ultimately, it boils down to how many GDL tables we want to support. More
tables means more flexibility for the game writer but also makes it harder
for the novice. If I really need a new table in a game that I am writing, I
add it. But I usually look for other ways to achieve the same thing first.

Hans