I have been working on a patch to increase vehicle maintenance of obsolete vehicles by a certain percentage value. After some difficulties, I have managed to get the basic code to work, but I have a rather odd problem: the values of the numbers being read from simuconf.tab do not seem to bear any meaningful relationship with the numbers that I have actually put into simuconf.tab. When, for testing purposes, I set it to multiply the costs by 400, it actually multiplied them by about 145. Even more weirdly, when I set the value in simuconf.tab to 800 instead of 400, it multiplied the costs by only about 33.
Are there any special considerations of which I am not aware that should be taken into account when reading numerical data from simuconf.tab? All that I know so far is that only integers can be read from that file. Any help would be much appreciated.
Edit: Incidentally, I tested the code by replacing "umgebung_t::obsolete_running_cost_increase_percent" with the actual numerical literal (i.e. "400"), and the code worked as expected, so it is not the code for multiplying the cost itself that is the problem.
The mainanacne cost is devided by three for historic reasons ...
Ahh, excellent, thank you for telling me! I'll modify my code now.