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<H2><A NAME="SEC202" HREF="xcdesign_toc.html#SEC202">Material Types</A></H2>

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Materials are materials that are manipulated in mass quantities.  In
general, material types just index vectors of values attached to other
objects, such as unit supplies.

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No more than 126 types of material may be defined.

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<U>Form:</U> <B><CODE>material-type</CODE></B> <I>symbol properties...</I><P>
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This form defines a new type of material, named by <VAR>symbol</VAR>.
Details are similar to those for unit types.

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<U>GlobalVariable:</U> <B><CODE>m*</CODE></B><P>
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This variable evaluates to a list of all material types, listed in the
same order as they were defined.

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<U>GlobalVariable:</U> <B><CODE>non-material</CODE></B><P>
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This variable has a value that is never a material type.

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A material type can be designated as representing people.

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<U>MaterialTypeProperty:</U> <B><CODE>people</CODE></B> <I>n</I><P>
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This property is the actual number of individuals represented by 1 of a
material.  If 0, then the material type does not have people associated
with it at all.

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Multiple types of materials can represent different types of people, so
for example there could be one type <CODE>nomad</CODE> with 10
people/material, and another type <CODE>urbanite</CODE> with 10,000
people/material.

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The basic cell capacities for materials also constrain people
materials. There can be an additional limit on the number of
individuals.

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<U>TerrainTypeProperty:</U> <B><CODE>people-max</CODE></B> <I>n</I><P>
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This property is the maximum number of individuals allowed in a cell of
this type of terrain.  This is checked at the end of each turn; any
excess will be moved into adjacent cells or disappear entirely.
Defaults to <CODE>-1</CODE>, which allows any number of people in a cell.

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