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Passengers

Changed in 0.2.0

How much passenger space the type can carry at once.

Specification
Applies to
AircraftTypeBuildingTypeInfantryTypeUnitType
File
rules.ini
Section
[<ObjectType ID>]
Value
integer
When omitted
0
rules.ini
[MYAPC] ; a UnitType registered in [VehicleTypes]
Passengers=5
PipScale=Passengers

The capacity is hold space, not a head count. Each passenger takes space equal to its Size, which defaults to 1, so with default sizes Passengers=5 holds five passengers. A passenger with a larger Size takes more of the same space.

A transport accepts a passenger only when all of these hold, tested in this order:

  1. this capacity is above 0;
  2. the passenger is allied with the transport’s owner;
  3. the passenger is not a vehicle, or the transport sets IsVehicleTransport=yes;
  4. the passenger’s Size is no larger than the transport’s SizeLimit;
  5. the space already taken plus the passenger’s Size is no more than this capacity;
  6. if the transport is a vehicle, it is not standing on a water or shore cell.

Any capacity above 0 also changes these behaviors:

  • Pips. The selection pips show the hold. Each unit of taken space draws one pip, in the passenger’s Pip color for infantry and green for any other passenger. PipScale still sets how many pips the row has. Under PipScale=Passengers that is this capacity, capped at 5, or at MaxPips when that is set.
  • Deploying. A vehicle can deploy, because unloading is its deploy action. A vehicle with no capacity, no DeploysInto and no IsMobileEMP=yes cannot deploy at all. A vehicle with capacity cannot deploy or unload while it is on a bridge, or while its cell or any of the four cells beside it is under a bridge.
  • Crew. A destroyed vehicle with capacity produces no escaping crew, whatever Crewed=yes says. CrewEscape covers that exclusion.
  • Computer houses. Team scripts treat the type as a transport. A computer house choosing an ion cannon target values a vehicle of this type that the strike would destroy at AIIonCannonAPCValue, unless it is a harvester or deploys into a construction yard.
See also — Size, SizeLimit, IsVehicleTransport, PipScale, MaxPips, CrewEscape, Crewed, VisibleLoad, AIIonCannonAPCValue, transports

History

  1. Changed0.2.0In development

    Let transports carry vehicles