export_desc_buildings.txt unit recruitment rate parameters.

[leo.civil.uefs]

In export_descr_buildings.txt file, the recruitment pool lines for units has a format like this example:

recruit_pool "Town Militia"  1   0.5   2  0  requires factions { Normans, }

where


1 = Number of units initally available
0.5 = Number of units replenished each turn
2 = Maximum number available
0 = Starting experince


If you want to change the interval in between this unit can be recruited, you must change the second value. Follow this parameters:



Value/Turns

0.30/4
0.21/5
0.20/5
0.19/6
0.18/6
0.17/6
0.16/7
0.15/7
0.14/8
0.13/8
0.12/9
0.11/10
0.10/10
0.09/12
0.08/13
0.07/15
0.06/17
0.05/20
0.04/25
0.03/34
0.02/50

So for example, if you set the value to 0.07, you will need to wait 15 turns to recruit a new unit of that type after the last time you did it.

PS: I suppose that for finding values like 11 for turns (as you can see there is not 11 in the table I gave), you might need to try with values like 0.095, I mean, adding one more decimal. Did not test this yet.

[Gigantus]

I believe up to 4 decimals are accepted, at least for the "Maximum number available" it works, eg 0.9999 just for retraining purposes.

[Sketchik]

Just what I was looking for, thanks.
Was Hoping to decrease the stack spam in my Third Age - MOS game a little but that's a whooooooole lot of values to change there
I don't suppose there is a better way than using the text replacement tool?

[Gigantus]

Reducing the income in MOS might be a better option. Trade base values or king's purse may need looking into.

[Kaiser Nonsense]

What about SS? We have it like this there:

recruit_pool "Mailed Knights"  0   0.000001   0.1  0  requires factions { scotland, france, hre, spain, aragon, portugal, milan, venice, papal_states, }

What is that 0.000001 there?

[Gigantus]

It's a ridiculous refresh rate of the recruit pool. Together with the max pool number (0.01) that will never give you a recruitable unit - I am guessing it is connected to scripted recruit pool increments as I am vaguely recalling a script that enables that (having a character with a certain trait level stationed in certain settlement I think).

[Kaiser Nonsense]

But those are not the normal recruitment units, are they? I'm trying to increase the normal units that for example Spearmen, takes 6 turns to refresh.

[Gigantus]

6 turns = 0.18 (100\6)

That's the refresh rate you are looking for, see the value\turn list in the first post for more. 'Normal' (regular recruitable) units have full values in the third slot (max pool), 1.0 or greater.

[QuintusSertorius]

I believe up to 4 decimals are accepted, at least for the "Maximum number available" it works, eg 0.9999 just for retraining purposes.

Though as an aside, 0.99 works just fine for retrain-only.

[Eothese]

OK long time no mod, so if my first building in a tree is as follows,

recruit_pool "BC Wizards" 1 0.05 0.99 0

and my second building in the tree is,

recruit_pool "BC Wizards" 1 0.1 0.99 0

Then if I recruit the unit from the first building and then build the second level building, do I get to recruit another unit?
With the idea being you get one unit when you finish building the building and can retrain there, but cant recruit another unit until you build the next in the tree.

#Edit

Looks like for some reason I don't get to recruit any units...

[QuintusSertorius]

No, the pools from each level aren't cumulative, you can only get recruitment from the level you currently have. Which if the maximum pool is 0.99 means no actual recruitment, only retraining. If you want genuine recruitment in the second tier, you have to increase that 0.99 to at least 1.

[Eothese]

So is it possible to get 1 unit available immediately upon construction and then retraining only, until the next level of building is constructed whereupon a second unit becomes available?

Because as I have it in the above post no units are available at all.

[QuintusSertorius]

No; if you set the pool at 0.99, then you can't get any regular recruitment, only retraining. The starting pool size won't override the maximum pool.

[Eothese]

Ok, so I really wanted to be able to recruit 1 unit only at tier 1, 2 at tier 2 and 3 at tier 3, with retraining available and without using any scripts.
So I did some experiments and came up with the following as a solution.

Tier 1,

recruit_pool "BC Wizards" 1.99 0 1 0 requires factions
recruit_pool "BC Wizards" 0 -0.0001 0.99 0 requires factions

Tier 2

recruit_pool "BC Wizards" 2.99 0 2 0 requires factions
recruit_pool "BC Wizards" 0 -0.0001 0.99 0 requires factions

recruit_pool "BC Wizards" 3.99 0 3 0 requires factions
recruit_pool "BC Wizards" 0 -0.0001 0.99 0 requires factions

2 lines for the same unit which work against each other.

#Edit

I assume that if I add a line to another higher building tree such as the highest core building types as follows:-
0 0.0002 0.5 0
The pool will still increase to a maximum of 1, 2 or 3 depending upon the building level present and won't halt at 0.5?

[Gigantus]

I think Eothese's question is related to the first number in the line which is the number of units avalable when the building is constructed. Technically he should get that one unit but with the 0.99 pool number can only retrain it (no further units available). Unless the 'below one' pool number somehow overules that.

Edit: just tested - the pool number overrules the 'initial unit number' if the pool number is below one. The second recruit line with a 'full' pool number only makes sense if it is linked to a hidden resource, like it is done in the campaigns. Example: recruiting units only in Europe but retraining them anywhere will have two recruit lines per building level, one with a regular pool entry and the hidden resource requirement, and a second line with the .99 pool number.

Edit2: or you put the .99 pool number in the core building (allowing units to be retrained without their building) and the regular pool number into a individual building.