[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#2329) Portattacks 7

["Raimar Falke via RT" <rt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 05:44:22PM -0800, Per I. Mathisen via RT wrote:
> 
> Some of us discussed this on irc today. What we came up with is this idea
> of units being in "layers" on the battlefield. Some units are up in the
> air, some are on ground, others are in the sea. Killstack should only work
> within one layer at a time. So if you kill a fighter, all air units
> stacked with it die, but not a mech inf. get_defender() should prefer
> units in the same layer as your own before trying to attack units in
> another layer.
> 
> The exception to this are airfields and cities. In cities, all units are
> considered "grounded", and so best defender defends regardless of which
> layer the unit would otherwise be at. Aircraft are "grounded" in
> airfields, so that ground units will defend them, and killstack will
> destroy them if a ground unit dies there.
> 
> (We discussed carriers, but came to the conclusion that it didn't deserve
> an exception. Instead, it should use the greater range of its aircraft to
> kill hostile ships before they get too close. Maybe carriers or aircraft
> should get higher visilibity radius, though. But if you are caught flat
> footed with your carrier, you did something wrong.)
> 
> So
>  - if you attack with a tank against a tile with a bomber and a militia,
> the tank will attack the militia, and the bomber will survive.
>  - if you attack with a fighter against a tile with a bomber and a mech
> inf, the fighter will attack the bomber and the mech inf will survive.
> attack again and you will target the mech inf (since there are no more air
> units to attack).
>  - if you attack with a battleship against a carrier full of fighters, the
> battleship will whack the carrier and the fighters will survive.
>  - etc
> 
> As to the patch, I think the new abilities should be controlled a new
> global game option in game.ruleset. The subs change should be a new unit
> flag which says that for this unit, cities don't "ground" sea units in
> cities, thus they will be in the "sea" layer when it attacks. This flag
> can be used for normal ships too, which means they'll attack ships first,
> then other units. F_PORTATTACK can be a name.
> 
> I hope I got this right. What do other people think?

Read
<http://lists.complete.org/freeciv-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx/2000/12/msg00177.html.gz>. It
is from 2000!!.

So I'm fully for it. This is a lot better than adding flags for
various a-vs-b stuff.

You can also give different layers different attack powers.

        Raimar

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