From: Hans Ronne <hronne@comhem.se>
To: Jim Kingdon <kingdon@panix.com>
Cc: xconq7@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: The border between fiction and reality
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 19:43:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <l03130305bd4a8cb6b01c@[212.181.162.155]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200408191646.i7JGkLP15268@panix5.panix.com>
>> So what is this selected unit doing in a basically non-selective action?
>> Well, it turns out that if the overrun fails because you don't have enough
>> ammo to hit all units in the stack, the action is converted into a
>> selective attack against the unit under the cursor.
>
>Hmm. Seems pretty confusing. I could see making it selective in
>general, or non-selective in general, but having it sometimes one and
>sometimes another seems odd.
>
>If we want selective, I assume the way is to have the UI pass a unit
>view, not a unit, into the kernel.
Right. I am currently testing one way of doing this using two new tasks
(TASK_ATTACK and TASK_FIRE). I would prefer to do everything at the action
level, but that proved difficult due to complications involving the network
code.
>But making it consistently non-selective is the way I would lean.
That would certainly be simpler. But perhaps less fun :-).
Hans
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-19 17:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-18 15:14 Hans Ronne
2004-08-18 21:10 ` Eric McDonald
2004-08-19 11:25 ` Jim Kingdon
2004-08-19 11:57 ` Hans Ronne
2004-08-19 17:03 ` Jim Kingdon
2004-08-19 19:43 ` Hans Ronne [this message]
2004-08-19 15:46 ` Eric McDonald
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