basic-computer-games/53_King/python/README.md

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Conversion to Python

Porting notes

Variables:

• A: Available rallods (money)
• B: Current countrymen
• C: foreign_workers
• C1: foreign_workers_influx
• D: Available land (farmland=D-1000)
• F1: polution_deaths (last round)
• B5: died_contrymen (starvation + pollution)
• H: sm_sell_to_industry
• I: distributed_rallods
• J: planted_sq in a round
• K: pollution_control_spendings in a round
• X5: years in office
• N5: YEARS_IN_TERM - how many years one term in office has
• P1: population_change (positive means people come, negative means people leave)
• W: land_buy_price
• V9: planting_cost
• U2: crop_loss
• V1-V2: Earnings from tourist trade
• V3: tourism_earnings
• T1: crop_loss_last_year
• W: land_buy_price
• X: only show an error message once

Functions:

• RND(1): random.random()
• INT(...): int(...)
• ABS(...): abs(...)

Bugs: See 53 King README

Implicit knowledge:

• COST_OF_LIVING: One countryman needs 100 for food. Otherwise they will die of starvation
• COST_OF_FUNERAL: A funeral costs 9