[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#9763) Not fair: get_defender() fallbacs to tile arrival time when selecting between equal units.

["Gregory Berkolaiko" <Gregory.Berkolaiko@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=9763 >

On Sun, 22 Aug 2004, Mike Kaufman wrote:

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> <URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=9763 >
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> On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 04:16:15PM -0700, Jason Short wrote:
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> > The algorithm is easy.  The problem is the result is not reproducable. 
> > get_defender() called on the same tile twice may not return the same 
> > defender.  This could be a problem for the AI or server code.  It would 
> > certainly be confusing for the client (mapview popup).
> 
> should be reproducable. after all, randseed is saved and that's how we
> choose?

Jason means (as he wrote) that two consequtive calls to get_defender will 
give different results.