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AutoCrush

A parsed per-type flag that nothing acts on, and the IQ at which a computer house starts running things over.

Per-type automatic crushing

Specification — Per-type automatic crushing
Applies to
AircraftTypeBuildingTypeInfantryTypeUnitType
File
rules.ini
Section
[<ObjectType ID>]
Value
boolean
When omitted
no
Used by the game
No — loaded but not used

The flag looks like a per-type version of the rules-wide PlayerAutoCrush, which lets a human player’s vehicles run over an enemy on their own initiative. Neither test that reads it can change the result:

  • The decision to drive over an attacker counts the flag only for a house a human plays. The engine makes that decision only for a computer house’s vehicles.
  • A vehicle closing on its target drives onto it instead of firing when the target is close enough. That test runs only for a computer house, and it accepts either this flag or a computer owner, so the flag never decides it.

Crushing itself is unaffected. A Crusher=yes vehicle ordered onto something crushable still runs it over. A computer house’s crusher still drives over an attacker once the house’s IQ reaches the rules-wide threshold. The stock harvester sets AutoCrush=yes and the Devil’s Tongue sets AutoCrush=no, and neither setting makes a difference.

IQ threshold

Specification — IQ threshold
Applies to
global rules
File
rules.ini
Section
[IQ]
Value
integer
When omitted
2

A computer house whose IQ is at or above this value lets its vehicles answer being shot by driving over the attacker instead of returning fire. A vehicle does so only when all of these hold, in the order the engine tests them:

  • the vehicle is on no team;
  • the vehicle is not leaving a transport or factory and is not docked at a building;
  • the vehicle’s house is not allied to the attacker;
  • the vehicle has Crusher=yes or has earned the crusher ability;
  • the attacker has Crushable=yes;
  • the attacker is no farther away than Crush;
  • the house is not in difficulty slot 2, the [Difficult] section;
  • the house’s IQ is at or above this value;
  • the attacker is not infantry whose type has Disguised=yes.
See also — Crusher, PlayerAutoCrush, IQ