[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#17941) Engineers ordered to connect road don't execute optimal movement

["Jason Dorje Short" <jdorje@xxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=17941 >

Peter van der Meer wrote:
> <URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=17941 >
> 
> On a map-fragment like:
>  1 2 3
>  4 5 6
>  7 8 9
> 
> Where
>  1 = ocean
>  2 = swamp
>  3 = plain + river + road (+ Engineer)
>  4 = grassland
>  5 = forrest + river (Silk)
>  6 = forrest + river
>  7 = Hill
>  8 = Hill
>  9 = Hill
> 
> If the engineer on tile 3 gets the order to connect 3 to 7 (Connect ->
> Road), then it deceides to go to 5 directly to build road instead of
> moving to 5 over 6. This makes building the road slowed down by 1
> turn.

That's not a bug.  The shortest path is always chosen when building a road.

-jason