[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Missiles, submarines and AEGIS cruiser

[Jason Dorje Short <jdorje@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Per Inge Mathisen wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Jul 2004, Christian Knoke wrote:
>
> > AI missile is in the air above the ocean, and a submarine nearby. My AEGIS
> > cruiser is on Goto to attack submarine.
> >
> > 1. No way to attack cruise missile?
> > 2. On turn done, AI moves missile onto submarine, so the cruiser goto isn't
> > executed. Shouldn't missile be lost at this point due to missing fuel?
> > 3. Probably same missile attacks land unit in this turn (not sure here),
> > submarine attacks cruiser...
> >
> > Any bugs in here? Or just bad luck?
>
> Just bad luck, I think. You cannot attack air units with sea units. All
> air units return to nearest city on turn end, if they can. AI should not
> attack an AEGIS cruiser with an air unit (unless I am mistaken here, AEGIS
> gets an insane bonus against missiles too).
It's a bug that this situation could exist at all.  Cruise missiles only 
have 1 fuel so this one should have crashed by now.  This happens at 
end-of-turn (I think).  So the AI must have moved the missile or sub at 
the beginning of the turn, then again at the end.  This violates the 
alternate-movement-for-AI paradigm.
Also when the missile moves onto the submarine I think it should be 
automatically loaded, unless the sub is already full.
jason