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

["Jason Short" <jdorje@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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

Marko Lindqvist wrote:
> <URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=9763 >
> 
> Jason Short wrote:
> 
>>Both inserting the units in random order, and taking them out in random
>>order, breaks the reproducability of saving+loading.  In the former case
> 
>   Reproducability of saving+loading is broken already. Putting units to 
> random position when they enter tile has no effect to that, nor makes 
> fixing it any more difficult. Units are not saved in order they appear 
> in tile, but in order they are in player.units. See my comments in #436.

It's not that broken.

>>when inserting the units on load the random order will be changed, and
> 
>  > extra rand() calls will be done.
> 
>   Units are inserted in random order only when they move, not when 
> savegame is loaded. Save+load should return them in same order they were 
> before (which is not the case at the moment)

How would you go about such a thing?

jason