[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#3702) Suggestion: Planning unit movements and actions

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On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 04:02:47PM -0800, Guest wrote:
> 
> 
> Suppose I want build a road between 2 cities.  I would like to be able 
> to give a settler a list of commands, e.g. move north, build road, 
> move northwest, build road, etc all in one go. 

Did you try the connect command for that?

>  The settler would 
> then behave similarly a unit on goto, i.e. it would move automatically 
> until there where no commands left or one of the following occured: it 
> was unable complete a command, it was woken up by an enemy unit, or it 
> was woken up by the player.  When a unit is selected, its plan would 
> be shown on the map.  Movement between tiles could be shown by arrows; 
> actions could be shown by letters (e.g. R for road).  When this 
> planning mode is active, commands for the selected unit would be added 
> to the end of the list by pressing the appropriate key and removed by 
> pressing backspace.

Something like that is part of the warclient, 
http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=3530

The part missions, it only lacks a nice interface to do so, but its a
big help for playing the game with low timeouts.

Thomas
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