Re: New Feature: Overwatch

[Lincoln Peters <sampln@sbcglobal.net>]

On Sat, 2005-01-01 at 09:31 -0700, Eric McDonald wrote:
> Lincoln Peters wrote:
> 
> > This sounds like exactly what I was looking for with towers in bolodd2.g
> > and bolodd3.g (I wanted them to automatically fire at any enemy unit
> > that came within their firing range).  And I imagine that this feature
> > will prove valuable in many more games.
> 
> I anticipate that it will be showing up in some of Elijah's games, as he 
> is the one who put in the feature request at Sourceforge.

Undoubtedly.

I suppose I should also copy the various unfulfilled feature requests
I've made on this list to the Sourceforge page, so that they'll be
easier to keep track of.

> 
> Of course, any mods to the BoloDD family or the long-awaited Knightmare 
> would be welcome too.

I finally got some time to work on Knightmare last night, and I may be
able to work on it some more over the next few days.  It has grown to
over 3,000 lines (and still growing!), so it's proving to take a while
to debug.

> 
> > What would happen if multiple enemy units are within the zone of
> > overwatch?
> 
> Not to sound like Bill Clinton chatting with Ken Starr, but I would take 
> issue with the word "are". An overwatch firing is triggered by movement. 
> So, it is not a matter of an unit _being_ in a particular zone, but 
> rather an issue of an unit _moving_ into or within a particular zone. In 
> a hacked up version of 'vision.g', which is a derivative of Elijah's 
> 'conquest.g', there were many units in the zone of overwatch (though 
> different cells) because the different sides started out within 
> relatively close proximity to each other's heavy phasers (the units I 
> setup to perform overwatch against ship types). The game proceeded 
> somewhat slowly in Tkconq because sometimes as many as 6 different heavy 
> phasers were responding to a ship's movement. But, it worked, and there 
> was certainly more than one unit in most ZOO's.

Now it makes sense.  Although it sounds like in one of the BoloDD games,
a tank could move to within 4 cells of a tower, start firing on it, and
only be automatically attacked once.

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Lincoln Peters
<sampln@sbcglobal.net>

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