[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#4096) Path Finding for air units.

["Raimar Falke" <rf13@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 10:02:32AM -0700, Gregory Berkolaiko wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 27 Apr 2003, Per I. Mathisen wrote:
> 
> > Can you add the ability to use AIR_MOVING units with
> > simple_unit_path_iterator, please? I need it for some fancy code I'm
> > brewing.
> > 
> >   - Per
> 
> I actually thought about it this morning (in the connection with having 
> air units paths in the client).  

> The danger code (when debugged) can be used for

It should.

> it, but I am not so sure about bombers (fuel>1).  I am also not 
> sure how fast this would be compared with the present airgoto.c code.
> 
> Of course things are much simpler if you want to iterate only within 
> one-turn horizon.  Above I am talking about complicated gotos which refuel 
> stops.

IMHO we only need one small change. The tracking of fuel. Decrease it
like move points and replenish it if we wait in a refuel-point. This
is slightly inaccurate because carriers can only refill as many units
as they can carry. But I think everybody (players and AI-people) can
live with this.

        Raimar

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