Save that powder!

[mjh623]

I have decided to try my hand at making a new quest, and in the process of laying out part of the plot, I discovered that gunpowder is the most valuable commodity in the game! At a base price of 100 per ton according to the initGoods.c file, it is almost 6 times more valuable than gold! I guess I'm going to be grabbing the powder first from now on when plundering my prey. And to think of all that loot I let sink to the bottom in my ignorance! <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/mybad.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="mybad.gif" />

 

[Pieter Boelen]

But the weight of powder isn't very impressive, is it? It takes quite a lot of powder good "items" to amount to one ton.

 

[mjh623]

Very true, but does POTC calculate volume for goods, or just weight in determining capacity? Is "Units" in the initGoods.c file a measure of volume?

 

[Pieter Boelen]

I think it's some sort of volume thing, yes.

 

[mjh623]

If so, then what is the corresponding volume parameter in the Ships_init.c file? I don't see anything here that would allow for a volume calculation. I will have to experiment tonight when I get home. The situation that brought me to this was setting up an arms deal to be interrupted by the PC. I wanted to make sure that both sides of the deal were equal in terms of what was being exchanged, and that success would net the PC a reasonably nice profit for the risks involved. When I realized that 417 tons of powder were worth 2500 tons of gold at base prices- ie. 41,667 piastres, or whatever flavor of currency you prefer, I decided to stop letting powder sink with non-captured prizes!