[Freeciv-Dev] Re: goto/autoattack rant...

[Gregory Berkolaiko <gberkolaiko@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

 --- Reinier Post <rp@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
> On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 02:50:27PM -0500, Jonathan Claggett wrote:
> 
> > I have a quick question about the current goto behavior. Is the route
> chosen
> > by the goto function plotted out in advance or does the goto function
> > re-evaluate the optimal route each round? In other words, is this a
> static
> > or dynamic function?
> 
> It must be dynamic, because of changes in ZOC and terrain.
> Also there is no obvious way to preserve and reuse information between
> turns even when little has changed.  At least I can't think of one.

Path is stored in the struct goto_route, see e.g.
http://www.freeciv.org/lxr/source/server/savegame.c?v=cvs#L987

This is reasonable once the path has been agreed with the human player.

AI route is very dynamic.  Even the destination can change from turn to turn.

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