From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27678 invoked by alias); 3 Jul 2004 23:28:12 -0000 Mailing-List: contact xconq7-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: xconq7-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 27670 invoked from network); 3 Jul 2004 23:28:11 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO rwcrmhc11.comcast.net) (204.127.198.35) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 3 Jul 2004 23:28:11 -0000 Received: from [192.168.181.128] (c-67-172-156-222.client.comcast.net[67.172.156.222]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc11) with ESMTP id <2004070323281001300jdn43e>; Sat, 3 Jul 2004 23:28:10 +0000 Message-ID: <40E74108.2070106@phy.cmich.edu> Date: Sat, 03 Jul 2004 23:55:00 -0000 From: Eric McDonald User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.1 (Windows/20040626) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Henry J. Cobb" CC: xconq7@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Just say no to bungee paratroopers. References: <1088896371.19592.ezmlm@sources.redhat.com> <2465.68.126.82.218.1088896685.squirrel@webmail.io.com> In-Reply-To: <2465.68.126.82.218.1088896685.squirrel@webmail.io.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2004/txt/msg00624.txt.bz2 Henry J. Cobb wrote: > I've gotten rather tired of the bungee paratrooper trick of having a > bomber fly around somebody's coastline capturing towns with the same > infantry unit over and over again I assume you're referring to the Standard game. >so I wrote a patch that applies two > rules: > > If you capture something and you can fit inside it then you move in as > part of the capture. I am not sure that this would be desired behavior in all cases, but for want of a good counterexample, your proposal does sound fairly reasonable. > If you attempt to capture something from inside a transport and you fail > then you drop out on the ground or sea under the transport as you're > pushed back. I don't know about this. Consider troops attempting a capture from a helicopter unit; they ought to be able to return to the helicopters if the capture fails.... Regards, Eric