[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Recalculating movement after unit gets damaged

[Christian Knoke <chrisk@xxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 05:29:09PM +0200, Davide Pagnin wrote:
> > > 
> > > The attacker's MP are adjusted.  The defender's aren't.
> > 
> > The never are, no matter whether land or see unit. Changing this would
> > affect fighting a lot.
> > 
> > Why do you think this is good (for playing)?
> 
> IMHO, if attacker is updated thus also defender has to, it is fairer.

When I'm beaten, it's never fair :-[]

> From a personal preference point of view, not updating MP of both is
> beter, but can be exploited by expert players, so I vote for updating
> both attacker and defender.

The defending unit is punished twice, by damage and loosing MP, while
the attacker not only determines the place and time, but also can move
*and* attack in the same turn.

When a defending unit is damaged, it will be trapped in many cases, and
ready to be slaughtered. Gameplay will change to more attack-based, dynamic
strategies. I'm not sure we want this. I don't.

> > What does (again) Civ 2 ?
> 
> Civ 2 has a completely different approach on this, because every player
> get the opportunity to move his units ONLY during his TURN (call it move
> turn). Thus this is issue doesn't apply.

I don't see why it doesn't apply? 

> In CivNet, civ1 with multiplayer, move were contemporaneous, but the
> issue doesn't apply, because there where no HP. 
> (Fight was ALL or NOTHING)  

Christian

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