[Freeciv-Dev] Re: [Freeciv] rfc: autoattack

[Gregory Berkolaiko <Gregory.Berkolaiko@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Thomas Strub wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 05:00:49PM +0000, Gregory Berkolaiko wrote:
> > On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Per I. Mathisen wrote:
> > 
> > > On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Gregory Berkolaiko wrote:
> > > > Range 1 autoattack triggered by movement is ok, but is not that useful.
> > > 
> > > What are you smoking? It nearly makes defensive units useless in defense.
> > > All you need is a catapult/cannon/artillery/howitzer on autoattack in each
> > > frontline city... forget about attacking with anything but air or sea
> > > unless your units are bodyguarded by mech inf.
> > 
> > Okay, you are right.  I guess I meant that with bigger range it's even 
> > more useful: you can have one howitzer defending several cities in a rail 
> > network.
> > 
> > But yes, even this autoattack is deadly.  Too deadly...  It obsoletes 
> > defenders, really.  Especially if Raahul's sea bombardment is added.
> 
> if you don't do deadly things into the server people will put them into
> the client.

Client cannot interrupt goto route execution.  Client cannot interrupt AI 
movement (a good thing!).

I think this server-side autoattack is turning the gameplay (at least 
single-player) upside down.  I am strongly against it.

Also I am against moving AI to client, but that's another matter.

G.