Wheel Lanes and plowing cover crops

[sootysax]

Wondering if there is a work around for using a plow to plow withered crops as fertilizer and using wheel lanes..

In order to plow the crop into the ground, you need to drive over it, destroying the crop before your plow reaches it... this results in about a +2N in the soil rather than +5N if there was no crop destruction...

I can disable wheel lanes when I want to plow a cover crop.. but hoping there is a tweak that can be made. Perhaps making the same exception for withered crops as with grass/alfalfa/luzerne/clover.

[DeckerMMIV]

The quick and easy way, would be to just change where the LUA-script code contains:
minGrowthState=8 and maxGrowthState=8
to the following numbers:
minGrowthState=7 and maxGrowthState=7
This change will cause that withered crops never gets destroyed by WheelLanes.

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However if a more specific "rule" is to be implement, it is going to be much more complex, as I see the "rule" to be coded as;

• if vehicle, or any of its attachments (recursive), has an attached equipment,
• and that equipment contains the specialization 'Plough',
• and that equipment is currently lowered,
• then change WheelLanes' "destruct-ability" to not remove withered crops,
• but only for "this" vehicle as its attachments.

This "rule" check would have to be tested for at every 'updateTick()` execution, which is going to basically waste CPU for just a tiny 'effect' in-game.

[sootysax]

As far as cover crops like alfala, clover, etc.. that do not get destroyed, only reduced to growth stage 2. (#3) Plowing or cultivating these crops would need to drive over them and reduce them to below the stage that would be beneficial to plow or cultivate with Soil Mod (growth stage 3). Shouldn't they be reduced to growth stage 3 so it is worthwhile to even plant and plow them for Soil Mod?