As people will propably demand it anyway (because they cannot handle 'real' logistics ), one can finetune which parts of militia gear should still be generated randomly, and which ones are taken from the sector.

As you might be afraid that the militia will take your best ammo and use it uselessly, you can forbid it from using certain items. open the sector inventory and leftclick on an item while holding 'TAB'. This toggles it, if the colour is green, the militia will not take this item from the sector (it can still steal it in tactical though). This even works in sectors where you currently have no mercs.

3. Was this default (militia uses everything unless explicitly forbidden) chosen by some coding/programming restrictions?
Because it might be less "work" for players, who really wants to control what militia uses, if default was other way round; player has to explicitly enable everything militia may use.
(Assuming that players who do not want to control this perhaps tend to just not use this feature at all anyway)

The game has also conditioned us for years that items with overlay = don't touch. So it would probably be more natural/consistent/whatever to mark the items they are allowed to take (in other words, the ones you should leave alone lest you disarm your own militia).
On the other hand, which one is faster/less work for the player depends a lot on how you organize your global inventories.
If you leave only the militia stuff behind and cart off the rest, 'default = take' means less clicking. In any sector where 'stuff you wanna keep' >> militia stuff, 'default = hands off' would mean less effort.

:super:
Thx for doing this.
Flugente

As people will propably demand it anyway (because they cannot handle 'real' logistics ), one can finetune which parts of militia gear should still be generated randomly, and which ones are taken from the sector.

1. Just to make sure:
For any 'MILITIA_USE_SECTOR_EQUIPMENT_x = FALSE' this type of equipment gets spawned in militia's inventory according to the current rules (randomness, progression etc.)?

2. So if i e.g. wanted militia to not use grenades at all, i had to set this to true in ini and "disable" all nades in a given sector?

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As you might be afraid that the militia will take your best ammo and use it uselessly, you can forbid it from using certain items. open the sector inventory and leftclick on an item while holding 'TAB'. This toggles it, if the colour is green, the militia will not take this item from the sector (it can still steal it in tactical though). This even works in sectors where you currently have no mercs.

3. Was this default (militia uses everything unless explicitly forbidden) chosen by some coding/programming restrictions?
Because it might be less "work" for players, who really wants to control what militia uses, if default was other way round; player has to explicitly enable everything militia may use.
(Assuming that players who do not want to control this perhaps tend to just not use this feature at all anyway)

It's not so much a question of skill with that guy, rather with formulating an interesting enough problem to intrigue him and hold his attention long enough that he's halfway done solving it and turning it into a feature before he even notices ^^

Will they touches stuff from BR then? I usually buys my stuff in bulks .. then after opening the crates.. do I have to manually mark them so they dont touch them?

if ( armour )
  return protection * coverage * status
else (face item )
{
  if (gasmask)
    return status
  else if (hearingbonus)
    return hearingbonus
  else if (nighttime)
    return nightvisionbonus
  else
    return dayvisionbonus
}
else if (knife/punchweapon)
  return damagevalue * status
else if (gun or launcher)
{
  return damage * range * firing rate * (10 + accuraccy)/10 * (10 + number of attachemnts)/10 * status
}
else
  return coolness * status

Is it possible to train 'blue' militia without 'filling' a city with greens before? I don't know but could one enable/disable city sectors, allowing "bulk training" of one or two 'blue' units that can be well equipped? It's always kind of bothering me that I have to have 100 Milita in Cambria and 100 Milita in Grumm before I can improve their training...

How does this fitness function work? This is how (pseudocode):

[..]
else (face item )
{
  if (gasmask)
    return status
  else if (hearingbonus)
    return hearingbonus
  else if (nighttime)
    return nightvisionbonus
  else
    return dayvisionbonus
}

else
  return coolness * status

If you leave only the militia stuff behind and cart off the rest, 'default = take' means less clicking. In any sector where 'stuff you wanna keep' >> militia stuff, 'default = hands off' would mean less effort.

I guess what I want to know is, does the game remember what gear each militia is carrying throughout the game and not just on a battle-per-battle basis?

This is a great feature really adds some new roleplay and strategic aspects to the game, always wanted to equip my own little army =)

But now let's see if I got this right.
For my town militia I basicly need a militia armory so to speak in every town sector, while the mobile militias I train take the equipment from the town sector I trained them in and they keep the equipment they took from there until they get killed or I order them to drop that stuff, right?

But wouldn't it make things easier if the town militia would behave likewise? Then there would be no need to drop 15 AR's, Helmets, Vests and ammo in every town sector for example.

And another question, when the Mobiles run out of ammo will they restock in the sector they're currently, given that there is matching ammo for their respective guns?