Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: HvMoltke

Hi to the AE Giants
My question is: when I hit 5 I get the supplypath displayed in green white or red. What is the difference?
Say, as IJ player I point on Bangkok and get numbers in green, when I point on Shanghai I get them in red and when I start displaying the supplypath I get the numbers in white.
That is too much for me

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ORIGINAL: rustysi

OK, I've seen some of this before. I've seen the white and green numbers, and all it appears to be is the display.

Try this, once the numbers appear move the cursor so the map shifts. In all my cases the numbers go from green back to white.

So, what do the numbers mean? From the originating supply hex (normally 100), they indicate how often the hex in question may be supplied each week. They are reflected in a range, exactly how I forget. Suffice it to say that as the number drops so does the number of times per week the hex will receive supplies.

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ORIGINAL: alanschu

Oh huh I did not know about this map mode. Handy!

I guess I've never really thought about it, but this would mean I should have no issues keeping Coal Harbour supplied if I dump a whole bunch of supplies in Victoria then as well?

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ORIGINAL: gervabit

I hang on to your question, when you press 5 I only get the points but not the numbers, have you pressed any other button?

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ORIGINAL: Yaab

White sometimes changes to green. It is a display problem. Try scrolling the map and you should see green reverting to white. Annoying as hell.

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The numbers are the theoretical number of points that could reach that hex (of the original 100) using all possible paths to get there.

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ORIGINAL: Yaab

White sometimes changes to green. It is a display problem. Try scrolling the map and you should see green reverting to white. Annoying as hell.

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Try this, once the numbers appear move the cursor so the map shifts. In all my cases the numbers go from green back to white.

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ORIGINAL: Ian R

I had a very long post in response but lost it

The short version is probably better anyway.

See page 250 of the manual. The numbers indicate the effectiveness of supply radiation from a node (base). I fiddled with this many moons ago, and can't remember of I decided it was a cost to leave a hex, as opposed to entering a new one.

Actually on reflection it's a bit of both - rail to rail costs 1/100, road to road costs 3/100, trails 5/100 and you get a -1/100 modifier if you go from a base/unit -> base/unit.

Off communications lines, a clear hex is 10/100, forest is 17/100, and so forth. However, if you are going from a hex with a communication line in it - at least a road or trail, anyway - this seemed to reduce the cost of going off-road into an adjacent hex. So, going from a cultivated hex (which has built in trails) to a plain clear hex, costs 7 instead of 10.

There are as per AE-usual some things which are hard to understand in the OP's Wuchang screenshot. Looking at the coast about 2 hexes east of Wenchow, there is a forest hex (no road) with a 15 point cost for supply to flow from an adjacent forest hex with a road in in it (66-51). Yet up near Wuchang, the hex southeast of the city (94), also a forest hex with a road going through it, is adjacent to a forest hex (no road) (78). The cost is 16, not 15. So there is other stuff going on under the hood.