What's the purpose of Category?

Lin Kuei Ominae · Seth **Joined**: 16 Aug 2006 **Location**: Germany

According to game.exe it can be set to the following values

AirLift
Air Transport
AirPower
Air Combat Support
Transport
Transport Vehicle
Support
Misc. Support Vehicle
LRFS
Indirect Fire Support
IFV
Infantry Fighting Vehicle
AFV
Armored Fighting Vehicle
Recon
Recon Vehicle
VIP
VIP/Agent
Civilian
Soldier

So for what are these used? The AI doesn't seem to use them, since the ai.ini triggers/scripts etc don't have any setting which says "attack Recon first, then LRFS".
And they also don't seem to change the behaviour of a unit, like avoid threats (e.g. for Recon), move close to enemy (e.g. for Soldier), stay far away (e.g. LRFS)

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CCHyper · Defense Minister **Joined**: 07 Apr 2005

First is an INI Value to Category= and the second is the descriptor, useless to modders AFAIK.

Honestly never looked into it, perhaps its just not used?

ChronoSeth · Sergeant **Joined**: 13 Mar 2010 **Location**: Canada

Could it have something to do with the unfinished threat rating system?

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Morpher · General **Joined**: 28 Jan 2005

I'd imagine it would have been for the AI if it was finished, I mean we know the AI isn't what it's meant to be from the AI Generals section, it'd be very useful if the AI had a bit more of an idea on what its units were and their abilities.

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Lin Kuei Ominae · Seth **Joined**: 16 Aug 2006 **Location**: Germany

CCHyper wrote:

First is an INI Value to Category= and the second is the descriptor, useless to modders AFAIK.

So "Soldier" is the description to "Civilian"!? Yeah, i guess in a war shattered world everyone is a soldier. Laughing

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Banshee · Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2012 2:22 pm Post subject:

Air Transport worked before Firestorm, allowing us to have perfect aircraft transports. But some genious from Westwood made it obsolette.

Aro · Alcohol Fueled **Joined**: 10 Sep 2006

Banshee wrote:

genious

*Genius.

CCHyper · Defense Minister **Joined**: 07 Apr 2005

Banshee wrote:

Air Transport worked before Firestorm, allowing us to have perfect aircraft transports. But some genious from Westwood made it obsolette.

Huh? How does the Category (Air Transport is a descriptor too) enable Air Transports to work when they did by default?

Banshee · Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2012 10:00 pm Post subject:

Really? That's new for me. #Tongue