Also changes when we clear the convoys. Because we plan when transfers
are added (to plan UI orders immediately) we were planning convoys when
delivering units, then clearing the convoys, then planning them again.
Aside from the wasted effort, when we cleared the convoys we forgot to
tell the transfer that they no longer had transport, so when replanning
they did not get a new convoy.
Downside to the current implementation is that whether or not transports
that were purchased last turn will be available for airlift this turn is
arbitrary. This is because transfers are created at the same time as
units are delivered, and units are delivered in an arbitrary order per
CP. If the helicopters are delivered before the ground units they'll
have access to the transports, otherwise they'll be refunded. This will
be fixed later when I rework the transfer requests to not require
immediate fulfillment.
https://github.com/Khopa/dcs_liberation/issues/825
Historically this inherited from Event but there was no reason for that.
That's gone now. Finish the separation and move the unit order tracking
class out of the combat results reaction class's file.
UI isn't finished. Bulk transfers where the player doesn't care what
aircraft get used work (though they're chosen with no thought at all),
but being able to plan your own airlift flight isn't here yet.
Cargo planes are not implemented yet.
No way to view the cargo of a flight (will come with the cargo flight
planning UI).
The airlift flight/package creation should probably be moved out of the
UI and into the game code.
AI doesn't use these yet.
https://github.com/Khopa/dcs_liberation/issues/825
The purchase system will seek out a source for its units when the
purchase is completed. If no source is available the order will be
refunded. Orders with no source available are prevented, so this only
happens when the source was cut off from the destination during the
turn.
There's still some funkiness going on with the first turn (but possibly
only when the first turn includes a cheat to capture) where the AI buys
a ton of units somewhere other than the front line. First turn behavior
should probably be different anyway, with the first turn allowing
purchases anywhere to avoid empty front lines while troops reinforce if
the front line isn't a factory.
https://github.com/Khopa/dcs_liberation/issues/986
This adds the models and UIs for creating ground unit transfer orders.
Most of the feature is still missing:
* The AI doesn't do them.
* Transfers can move across the whole map in one turn.
* Transfers between disconnected bases are allowed.
* Transfers are not modeled in the simulation, so they can't be
interdicted.
https://github.com/Khopa/dcs_liberation/issues/824
`Game.date` is actually the start date, not the current date. Not renaming to
avoid breaking save compat.
This fix won't have any effect on existing saves until they pass the turn
because this is encoded into the conditions generated at the start of the turn,
but it will fix on the next turn.
Fixes https://github.com/Khopa/dcs_liberation/issues/973
On station time for CAP is only 30 minutes, so plan three cycles to give
~90 minutes of CAP coverage.
Default starting budget has increased significantly to account for the
greatly increased aircraft needs on turn 1.
Fixes https://github.com/Khopa/dcs_liberation/issues/673
Started with TARCAP because they're simple, but will follow and extend
this to the other flight plans next.
This works by building navigation meshes (navmeshes) of the theater
based on the threat regions. A navmesh is created for each faction to
allow the unique pathing around each side's threats. Navmeshes are built
such that there are nav edges around threat zones to allow the planner
to pick waypoints that (slightly) route around threats before
approaching the target.
Using the navmesh, routes are found using A*. Performance appears
adequate, and could probably be improved with a cache if needed since
the small number of origin points means many flights will share portions
of their flight paths.
This adds a few visual debugging tools to the map. They're disabled by
default, but changing the local `debug` variable in `DisplayOptions` to
`True` will make them appear in the display options menu. These are:
* Display navmeshes (red and blue). Displaying either navmesh will draw
each navmesh polygon on the map view and highlight the mesh that
contains the cursor. Neighbors are indicated by a small yellow line
pointing from the center of the polygon's edge/vertext that is shared
with its neighbor toward the centroid of the zone.
* Shortest path from control point to mouse location. The first control
point for the selected faction is arbitrarily selected, and the
shortest path from that control point to the mouse cursor will be
drawn on the map.
* TARCAP plan near mouse location. A TARCAP will be planned from the
faction's first control point to the target nearest the mouse cursor.
https://github.com/Khopa/dcs_liberation/issues/292
Creates threat zones around airfields and non-trivial air defenses (it's
not worth dodging anything with a threat range under 3nm). These threat
zones can be used to aid mission planning and waypoint placement.
https://github.com/Khopa/dcs_liberation/issues/292
AI aircraft purchase decisions are now driven by the missions that the
flight planner was unable to fulfill. This way we're buying the aircraft
we actually need instead of buying them at random, in the locations we
need them, in the order they're needed.
There's a bit more that could be improved here:
* Unused aircraft could be ferried to where they would be more useful.
* Partial squadrons could be completed rather than buying a whole flight
at a time.
* Aircraft could be ranked by their usefulness so we're not buying so
many Hueys when a Hornet would do better.
* Purchase a buffer of CAP capable aircraft in case too many are shot
down and they are not available next turn.
https://github.com/Khopa/dcs_liberation/issues/361
To have an effect on turn zero these need to be enabled in the wizard.
Since the last page was getting quite full I've split it into two pages:
one for the objective generation options and a second for the difficulty
and player assist options.
I also added an option to set the inital budget for opfor.
The procurement AI now uses the same system as the players. Orders are
placed and take a turn to fulfill.
This has a few advantages:
* We no longer need special case purchase logic for the turn 0
population of opfor airbases.
* Players using auto-purchase can cancel orders they don't like.
The allows the players to use the same auto-purchase mechanics that the
AI uses. The behavior is very bad, but it's no worse than what OPFOR
deals with.
There's a lot that needs to be improved before this is really a good
choice for the player:
* Option to adjust budget balance between front lines and airbases.
* Disallow negative budgets (which incidentally will cause more aircraft
to be purchased, since the armor purchases currently accidentally
spend the aircraft budget).
* Buy less randomly: https://github.com/Khopa/dcs_liberation/issues/361.
* Obey parking limits.
* Use the delivery events rather than instant delivery (also allows the
player to cancel orders they don't want).
Fixes https://github.com/Khopa/dcs_liberation/issues/362
For now this is mostly behavior preserving. I slightly improved the
ability to buy units when multiple front lines exist by removing full
bases as candidates, but it should be a minor change at best. A larger
improvement will come later.
This is also written such that it will work for the player as well. The
procurer currently runs for the player but with all the options off, so
it does nothing. The next patch allows adds options for the player to
use auto-procurement.
This adds both player and enemy income multiplier options. Note that
previously the AI was only getting 75% of their income. I've changed
that to give them their full income by default since the player can now
influence it.
Repairing a damaged runway costs $100M and takes 4 turns (one day). The
AI will always repair runways if they can afford it. if a runway is
damaged again during the repair the process must begin again.
Runways are still operational despite what the UI says. Preventing the
player and AI from using damaged runways (except for with helicopters
and harriers) is next.
Removed always True "event successful"
Add `AirWarEvent` as the primary game `Event` applied to every miz
Cleanup of `FrontLineAttackEvent`
Change `Operation.is_awacs_enabled` to two bools for each side red/blue
Currently controlled by whether an AWACs is available for the faction
(and only ever true for Blue)
Generated units are added to this during mission generation so we can
map destroyed units back to the data that generated them. Currently only
implemented for aircraft as a proof of concept.
Breaks save compat, but we need to have this knowledge outside the UI so
we can know whether or not we can ferry aircraft to the airfield without
overflowing parking.
The AI isn't making use of these yet, but it's not smart enough to do so
anyway.
Would benefit from an icon to differentiate it on the map.
I'm stretching the definition of "control point" quite a bit. We might
want to put a class above `ControlPoint` for `AirSpawnLocation` to
represent types of spawn locations that can't be captured and don't have
ground objectives.
Fixes https://github.com/Khopa/dcs_liberation/issues/274
`FrontLine` is tightly coupled with `ConflictTheater`.
Moved into the same module to prevent circular imports.
Moved `ConflictTheater.frontline_data` from class var
to instance var to allow save games to have different
versions of frontlines.
