[Freeciv-Dev] Re: 'goto' prefers the path via ship (PR#888)

[Christian Knoke <ChrisK@xxxxxxxx>]

Am Sonntag, 12. August 2001 00:20 schrieb Gregory Berkolaiko:

> > > In this situation 'goto' should prefer the land way.
> > (Maybe it is even always
> > better to go on land??)
>
> Probably it is best to disallow the movement
> land->water->land in the goto route consideration.
>
> Pros:
> 1. Transport might move away before the ground unit
> gets there.
> 2. If the unit ends its turn on the transport it goes
> to sleep (quite annoying, eh?)

AFAICS it sometimes does and sometimes not. Should
this be changed to never go to sleep automatically?

>
> Contra:
> 1. Sometimes the routes via ships are the only
> possible ones: like in the savegame below if the
> cavalry wants to go north of the city, it cannot do it
> by land because of ZOC.

That means that the goto computation was correct. If
there is no way, the goto can't do a miracle. It's up
to the user to use waypoints then.

So the best maybe is to leave it as it is. Using ships
when I want him to do that is a feature IMO.

>
> Attached is a patch where such paths are disallowed.
> It's probably very unelegant (if not wrong), but at
> least it identifies the place where change should be
> introduced.  The patch is against 1.12.0.

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