Bobisback Import Changes

[Bobisback]

Description

• Added in a new button on the import screen that allows with one click all demanded goods to be imported into the city.
• Added in a new button on the import screen that allows with one click all goods needed for construction to be imported into the city.
• Added all relevant defines to the global defines file for semi convenient customization.
• Included a small bug fix in the auto export code that was removing food from imports and exports.

Known Impacted Areas of Code

This should only effect the import/export popup. This also changes some code related to the auto trader code related to some small bugs I found.

Additional Notes

• We have to add import limits on everything so it plays nice with the auto export feature.
• I did fix a bug in the auto export that was removing food as a import or export no matter what.
• This code is not great but please keep in mind I copied to be the same as the code that is already there. This way when it is refactored it can all be done together. This should keep things cleaner for the future.
• I recommend who ever merges this PR squashes my commits, since I do have a bunch of commits in there.

Details for Code Reviewer Running Code

Steps to test for importing demanded goods

1. Run game
2. Enter a city that has demanded goods
3. Optionally reset imports for the city via the imports popup
4. Use the import all demanded goods button
5. You should observe that all goods that are demanded are set to a 5 turns worth of goods for the maintain level and 8 turns worth of goods for the import limit level.
6. Done! Report any issues or questions here and has much success!!

Steps to test for importing Construction goods

1. Run game
2. Enter any city
3. Optionally reset imports for the city via the imports popup
4. Use the import construction goods button
5. You should observe that construction goods are set to maintain and limit values that are in the global defines
   (100 for lumber, clay, and stone, 150 for tools) Again we have to set limit values otherwise it will break auto export.
6. Done! Report any issues or questions here and has much success!!

Steps to test for auto export bug

1. Run game
2. Enter any city
3. Add a food import or export
4. Use the auto export all goods button
5. You should observe that the food import/export should be unchanged
6. Done! Report any issues or questions here and has much success!!

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[MrZorG33]

I did fix a bug in the auto export that was removing food as a import or export no matter what.

this is not a bug. this was done on purpose because food is required for the growth of the colony. if the player needs, he can manually set the export/import of food.

upd I am against this correction.

[Bobisback]

I did fix a bug in the auto export that was removing food as a import or export no matter what.

this is not a bug. this was done on purpose because food is required for the growth of the colony. if the player needs, he can manually set the export/import of food.

upd I am against this correction.

Hey MrZorG33,

I talked with Nightinggale and Johan Buret / Barthoze on this subject in discord. The discussion starts here if you are interested in reading the details.

The TLDR is this:
So I agree with what you said, and this is why I did this change. If there is food imported or exported for a city then the auto export button should completely ignore food. But it was not, for some reason if food was set to import or export then when you clicked auto export button it was removing food from both imports and exports (it was also deleting import limits and maintain amounts). Hence this bug fix. Originally I was going to put a check in there to ignore food but based on feedback from Nightinggale and Johan Buret / Barthoze they both said that the code that was causing the issues was not needed and could be removed instead.

Hopefully this clarifies some things!

Thanks,
Bobisback

[MrZorG33]

Thanks @Bobisback, let's try to find out. (By the way, I can't open your link - error 404)

Yield export is initially configured in CIV4YieldInfos. @Nightinggale, @johan-buret, why are there other export settings that conflict with the original settings?

[Bobisback]

Thanks @Bobisback, let's try to find out. (By the way, I can't open your link - error 404)

Yield export is initially configured in CIV4YieldInfos. @Nightinggale, @johan-buret, why are there other export settings that conflict with the original settings?

I had the link incorrectly set. try now it works! I tested it.

[MrZorG33]

I read your correspondence.
if necessary for the code to work correctly, try setting the < bIsExportYield > parameter to 0 for Food.

but once again, food should not be automatically added to the export list, since it is the only important yield for the growth of the colony. its export must be configured manually.

[Bobisback]

I read your correspondence. if necessary for the code to work correctly, try setting the < bIsExportYield > parameter to 0 for Food.

but once again, food should not be automatically added to the export list, since it is the only important yield for the growth of the colony. its export must be configured manually.

I think you are misunderstanding what the bug is. The bug is that this function that sets all the auto exports for everything is removing Food as a import and export. That is the bug. Aka I go into a city. I set food as a import or export manually. I click auto export everything. Food is then removed as an import/export for the city by this function. I fixed it so now when you click auto export it does not remove food as a import or export in the city. Aka if the user sets food as a import or export, my bug fix makes it so the auto export function DOES NOT remove food as a import or export it just completely ignores food altogether now. Just to be super clear, if the user sets food up manually this function in the current code base will delete that setup.

P.S we discussed setting bIsExportYield to 0 on food but based on this discussion they determined it would break other things. Please see the discord convo for details.

[Bobisback]

I read your correspondence. if necessary for the code to work correctly, try setting the < bIsExportYield > parameter to 0 for Food.

but once again, food should not be automatically added to the export list, since it is the only important yield for the growth of the colony. its export must be configured manually.

And to be super super clear, with my change the auto export button DOES NOT set food up for auto export. In fact it ignores food completely.

[MrZorG33]

Apparently due to incorrect translation, I do not always correctly understand what some people write. although this also works in reverse)
well, if auto-export of Food is not turned on, that's good.

P.S we discussed setting bIsExportYield to 0 on food but based on this discussion they determined it would break other things. Please see the discord convo for details.

Well, if they think so, ok.

[XSamatan]

@raystuttgart @Nightinggale

Will this be included in a new version?

I'm going to update my local copy to the newest revision next week if feedback about this feature is needed.

Regards
XSamatan

[raystuttgart]

@XSamatan
I have not been following the discussion and I am currently not modding.
The people that are currently active need to decide if they want to commit and also test it ingame.

Some active team member needs to take responsibility for it.

[Bobisback]

Did anything ever become of this? Should we give up on this and close the PR? or does it just need more testing? I tested it pretty extensively across two large games. But that does not mean there is not issues, plus we would need to update it to current code base and test again.

[XSamatan]

I have three games until independence under my belt (and countless mid-game restarts) and never encountered any issues with this pr. All develop version from mid January.

Settings for import are working as described.

I'd like to see this accepted into the mod, would be a nice QOL feature to keep the domestic market interesting in large empires (and prevent it to stay the click-festival it is right now)

Regards
XSamatan

[Voker57]

Considering how transports work, this probably should be at least half stack size by default to avoid immense transport load.

[Voker57]

Construction imports are not really helpful since they don't correspond to actual requirements, and there is already a system for autoimporting construction stuff (see game concepts -> transport automation).

[Voker57]

But-The-People@95ed7bf rebased and adjusted version of the patch