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ThreatPosed

How much danger the type represents, used by team weighting, the region threat map, and base-defense call-ups.

Specification
Applies to
AircraftTypeBuildingTypeInfantryTypeUnitType
File
rules.ini
Section
[<ObjectType ID>]
Value
integer
When omitted
0

No part of target scoring reads this figure; it is what an object is worth as a danger, not what it is worth as a target. Three systems consume it:

  • The weight an object carries when a team tallies its members. Separately, this figure plus the type’s Points — and the same sum for anything carried as cargo — forms an object’s worth to the computer, which nothing in the engine goes on to consult.
  • The per-house, per-region threat map, credited when the object is placed on the map and debited when it leaves. The pathfinder reads that map through ThreatAvoidanceCoefficient.
  • The size of a computer house’s response when its base is attacked: the attacker’s figure multiplied by ComputerBaseDefenseResponse is the defensive strength the house tries to assemble.
rules.ini
[MYTANK] ; example UnitType
ThreatPosed=25

A type left at 0 contributes nothing to any of the three, so an attacker of that type provokes no base-defense call-up at all.

See also — target-selection