[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Path-finding in the presence of danger

[Raimar Falke <rf13@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 03:03:54PM +0100, Gregory Berkolaiko wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, Raimar Falke wrote:
> > My proposal:
> >  if TM_NONE:
> >     COP=((TURN_FACTOR*total_BMC)/move_rate)+TEC
> >  else:
> >     COP=((TURN_FACTOR*((turns+1)*move_rate-moves_left))/move_rate)+TEC
> > 
> > and TURN_FACTOR is a define (2^16 for example).
> 
> I think you explained it before

Have I?

> , but let me ask again, wouldn't it be 
> better to multiply the whole thing by move_rate:
>        COP = TURN_FACTOR*total_BMC + TEC*move_rate
> ?

These two are equivalent, except that the second produces larger COPs
(which isn't a problem per se). The second version should be faster if
TURN_FACTOR isn't a power of two. So from the user-view both are the
same and I have no problem if we use your version.

        Raimar

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