Fractional unit cost
 

I'm having problems with fractional unit costs not working correctly 100% of the time.

For instance Unit X which has 6 members costs 5 points and has the option to take 4 more for a total cost of 8 points. So, I have set the unit cost to 0.8 and this works. Most of the time. I have, on occasion, noticed that if I change something with the unit (add an option or even change the spelling of the unit name) the cost reverts to a whole number (1 in this case) and throws the unit cost out of whack.

Anyone else have this problem? Am I doing something wrong?

Thanks for the help!!
Butcher

Do you have the decimals spaces set properly or have Trim decimals set in the DEF file?

Butcher, can you give me an example of where this happens? The cost shouldn't suddenly bound itself to a whole number, unless you're manually rounding it somewhere.

Edit: I just checked, and the Warmachine data files don't specify a "decimals" value in the definition file. This means that every cost is going to be displayed at 0 decimal places by AB. If you want to display more decimals, you should set it to another value, like "3" (the maximum) - As long as the "Trim Decimals?" checkbox is ticked, AB will automatically trim any trailing 0s from the end of the number.

Thanks!
I'll give it a try setting it to 2 decimals, should take care of my issues.

Cheers!

Well...it's close.
Here's my conundrum:
Unit X has an option for 6 models @ 4 pts total
OR
10 models @ 6 pts total

So, I set the cost to 0.6 pts and Size: Min-6 Max-10 Start-6 Incr-4
I also set the Text Cost-4/6 for display purposes.

What I get is the starting unit size Cost=3.6, I go to the max unit size and Cost=6. Is there a way to get at the Cost and do a rounding using something like the Unit Stat tab and the Finalize or Calc button?

I know I've worked around this problem before in the AT-43 files I've been working on. But, it's a bit messy. I use a set of options and a min/max tag. I was hoping to find a better way though.

Thanks for the help guys!
Butcher

You should be able to use a "post-link" script on Unit X. If the unit has 10 models, you can modify @each or @special to change the cost of the unit appropriately.

BINGO!
Just setting @base = 0.6 does the trick!

Thanks for the help!
Butcher