How to modify consumption of 00__defines values?

[jonatron5]

I was looking to experiment with reworking the economy, and I came across this :

PRICE_RANGE = 0.75                            # min price of a good is base * (1 - PRICE_RANGE), Max price is base * (1 + PRICE_RANGE), PRICE_RANGE is locked to [0-1]

in file "00_defines"

and this line is preventing me from doing what i want to do (setting a free floating market price for goods)
I have the entire directory loaded in my IDE and i have tried searching for references to: "PRICE_RANGE" variable and the only instances i can find are in interface.yml files

what im looking for is where this value gets consumed so i can work on the actual economic calculations of the game and unbound the range.

 

[CaesarVincens]

Many defines hook into game code (unmodifiable) rather than game script (modifiable). This is one such example. Assuming the comment is correct, you cannot unbound the range as it's capped at double the base price for any given good (with vanilla capping it at 1.75x).

If you want the prices of goods to be able to go as high as potentially possible (and given a market can have demand with no supply, that would be a divide by 0 issue...), you'd need to make a suggestion/request for the devs to change the game code to allow for that.

 

[jonatron5]

Many defines hook into game code (unmodifiable) rather than game script (modifiable). This is one such example. Assuming the comment is correct, you cannot unbound the range as it's capped at double the base price for any given good (with vanilla capping it at 1.75x).

If you want the prices of goods to be able to go as high as potentially possible (and given a market can have demand with no supply, that would be a divide by 0 issue...), you'd need to make a suggestion/request for the devs to change the game code to allow for that.

well that seems to be an issue, is the game code geniunelly unaccessable?

 

[CaesarVincens]

well that seems to be an issue, is the game code geniunelly unaccessable?

For all PDS (Paradox-developed) games, yes, at least while respecting the EULA and wanting to distribute your modifications through the regular channels.

There is no API other than what's already in the accessible script files; some other PDX (Paradox-published) games such as City: Skylines do have API for the game code (or rather mechanics modifications must hook into game code directly due to the engine used).