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

["Randy Kramer" <rhkramer@xxxxxxxxx>]

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

On Monday 21 August 2006 11:30 am, Jason Dorje Short wrote:
> <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.

I (and the original poster, I'm sure) would argue that it is.

You are right, that starting to build the road from square 5 is the right 
place to start building the road.  But, the engineer can get to square 5 and 
start building the road in the current turn if he travels to square 5 via the 
river, i.e., square 3 to 6 to 5.

Randy Kramer