From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11052 invoked by alias); 17 Aug 2004 18:57:47 -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 11045 invoked from network); 17 Aug 2004 18:57:46 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ob2.cmich.edu) (141.209.20.21) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 17 Aug 2004 18:57:46 -0000 Received: from egate1.central.cmich.local ([141.209.15.85]) by ob2.cmich.edu (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i7HIqHP8007624; Tue, 17 Aug 2004 14:52:39 -0400 Received: from leon.phy.cmich.edu ([141.209.165.20]) by egate1.central.cmich.local with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6713); Tue, 17 Aug 2004 14:57:31 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by leon.phy.cmich.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3331970011; Tue, 17 Aug 2004 14:57:28 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 18:59:00 -0000 From: Eric McDonald To: Hans Ronne Cc: xconq7@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Major bug and what to do about it (long) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-OriginalArrivalTime: 17 Aug 2004 18:57:31.0641 (UTC) FILETIME=[0CB0AE90:01C4848C] X-CanItPRO-Stream: default X-Spam-Score: -0.9 () X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . canit . ca) X-SW-Source: 2004/txt/msg00931.txt.bz2 On Tue, 17 Aug 2004, Hans Ronne wrote: > >Why? Surely if you were firing at an individual unit, then the > >chance of another just happening to be in its place coupled with > >the chance of hitting the substitute unit should be smaller than > >the hit chance of directly aiming at the substitute unit. > > Not at all. I am talking about a fire-into substitute action here, When we talk about 'fire-into' as it presently stands, it is really 'fire-at-any'. >not a > fire-at action against the unseen unit (which would be impossible by > definition). So the hit chance should really be the same regardless of > where the unit is located in the cell. Only if the other units are seen and we are treating 'fire-into' as chosing a random target from among the unit views. In the case where the other units are not seen, then this makes no sense. Unseen units should be very difficult to hit (unless they have a very large target cross-section relative to the size of the cell). Eric