[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#4387) The Return of the Rand() Moves

["Per I. Mathisen" <per@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=4387 >

On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, Christian Knoke wrote:
> Maybe this is an improvement, but as you say, it has not a small effect on
> the movement and thus on the tactical effects of units, and on balancing
> between unit types. We should be a bit careful about this.

As with everything.

> > Rules B-D above suffer from the 'press space to make unit wait until next
> > turn' problem. We could solve this by auto-'space' it whenever you try to
> > move onto something that has higher movecost than your MP, but this may
> > not be to everyone's taste.
>
> Is this a big problem? I try moving the unit in different directions and see
> whether the unit makes it or not.

For dozens of units every turn? It would slow down the game with
micromanagement. And please don't suggest making it an option - if someone
would want to use it, it would be because it granted an advantage, and we
should not encourage things that make the game slower with micromanagement
and punish those who want to play the default way. Moving around lots of
units is already a big chore.

  - Per