Limit amount of units fleeing a destroyed warehouse / headquarters

I feel it'd be best to have the individual workers represent multiple units if needed. So if there's a cap of 500 horses, but the destroyed warehouse had 1200 horses in it, then 200 of the horses would represent 3 each, and 300 would represent 2 each.

This won't scale down to types of units that you have only very little of. e.g. how do you represent 1 Miner with a ratio of 3:1?

Let's keep this simple stupid and just have a cap.

If there are 500 or less horses (or whatever the cap is), then each horse unit represents one horse, as it does now. Only when there are more horses than the cap would it start assigning horse units to represent 2+ horses.

Remember, I am at best an average programmer. If I can whip up pseudo-code in under five minutes, I'm sure the widelands team can handle it in their sleep.

You can't reassign 3 horses to a new horse, that doesn't make sense coding-wise. They are all identical anyway, so there are no special features to preserve for individual horses.

So, your suggestion would be:

Loop through the horses, keep each nth horse, destroy the other horses.

My suggestion would be: grab the first x horses, destroy the rest.

IMO you're overthinking this ;)

I have attached a branch that implements my suggestion, with a cap of 500 per unit type.

Fixed in build20-rc1