[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#4326) Pathfinding

["Raimar Falke" <rf13@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 04:15:46AM -0700, Gregory Berkolaiko wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 8 Jun 2003, Raimar Falke wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 11:06:29AM -0700, Gregory Berkolaiko wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Greg: you may now see why I prefered a flags field in pf_parameter
> > > > instead of the zoc_used field.
> > > 
> > > I admit I was thinking the same.  But we need to carefully consider what 
> > > we do, because some AI calculations need to ignore ZoC...
> > 
> > They this code has to remove F_IGZOC in parameter->flags.
> 
> This is a bit ugly, but probably the best way.

So you agree on the whole plan?

> > > or use a different notion of ZoC.
> > 
> > If code wants this you have to be more specific.
> 
> I realised that when planning strategic attacks (on enemy cities), AI
> should ignore ZoC imposed by enemy units in the field, but pay attention
> to the ZoC imposed by enemy cities.
> 
> > > Another solution is write another MC-callback marine_move_unit.
> > 
> > You would need another flags to trigger this. So we would have to add
> > a "bool is_marine" to pf_parameter. I'm strongly against this since
> > this duplicates unit_type->flags.
> 
> No flag is needed.  Have a look how we handle trireme case for example.

So you want another callback? I doubt this.

        Raimar

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