Re: Border Terrain (was Re: Compound Terrain Effects)

[Eric McDonald <mcdonald@phy.cmich.edu>]

Hi Hans,

On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Hans Ronne wrote:

> >There is also the possibility of doing a border slide.
> 
> Precisely. Though it didn't work last time I tested it (WWII-Europe, Black
> Sea fleet trying to get out through the Bosporus).

Ironically, I think I saw an instance of it working (when it 
shouldn't have) last weekend when I was play-testing Bellum. 
Specifically, I accidentally clicked on a cell that the current 
unit (a land unit) could not reach because of intervening illegal 
terrain. The path-finding algorithm told it to go toward a river 
(which was 1 cell away) and then suddenly the unit was sitting on 
the cell it wasn't supposed to be able to go to (which was 1 or 2 
cells up the river). Strange....

> >I simply would not go down that road (or is it river? :) at this
> >stage.
> 
> Actually, we've already been there. 

Right, I remember. After the 7.5 release, I think we need to have 
a good discussion about the merits and the problems with possibly 
reimplementing this, perhaps in conjunction with a 
subterrain-size-in-terrain table. But, I'm not prepared to argue 
the case until after I get some more exposure to the connector and 
movement code (which may happen if I manage to fix the previously 
mentioned ZOC bug).

  Regards,
   Eric