Great! This does look like a very easy thing to do. I'll only do the single player files though, since I'm not sure if there is production in Multiplayer.
I'm not sure if it is easier to call the production calculations every minute, or every hour, but I suspect it'll be less cpu intensive to calculate it every hour. That might make a difference if people compress time a lot.
The idea I was working with would calculate an hour's work, and then subtract all the work needed to produce all the requested items. At this point, we can then apply the remaining work to the next items in the queue, and so on. This is fairly easy to do, and would require fewer files to be changed since we wouldn't need to change how often PR_ProductionRun is called, and all changes would only need to be in cp_produce.c (I think). CL_CampaignRun in cp_campaign.c does not currently call events every minute, and I don't like the idea of making it do so since this seems easy enough to get around.
So, my proposal is more or less what I've said in previous posts:
Continue calling PR_ProductionRun every hour, as it currently is.
Calculate how many items are created in that hour, and subtracting all the items we wanted made from that value.
If production is not complete, we are done. Wait for the next hour to call PR_ProductionRun again.
If production is complete, report this to the user, and find out how much extra work was done on the items. Apply this extra work to the next item in the queue instead.
If next item production is not complete, we are done.
If next item production is complete, repeat the above process.
Disadvantage to this is production completion will only be reported/executed on the hour, even if it is done before the hour is up. I suspect we can come up with some excuse to say this, like the Engineers are too busy to report every minute or something, or maybe the delivery staff can't move it to storage until an hour is up, but I don't really know.
Advantage to this is (I believe) we will use less cpu power to calculate the production work being done, and fewer files will need to be changed.
Let me know if you are ok with this proposal.
Thank you Odie, I would like the files I need to compile the game for testing purposes, for these production changes. I have downloaded the R25071 version, which was missing the manifest file. I'll try to track it down and see if anything else is missing.
Mattn, is there a specific diff utility you would like me to use to save the file differences? Some of them work better than others, and may report differently.
