Re: playable again with a few problems

[Eric McDonald <mcdonald at phy dot cmich dot edu>]

Jim Kingdon wrote:

> > Your scenario does not seem to be the same since I was a
> > move-direction-multiple which is strictly straight line movement
> > in the choosen direction, and so should not need any path
> > finding, I would have thought. The condition existed before the
> > new path finding code anyway, so it is not a new bug. I accepted
> > the behaviour as normal but just now realized it actually does
> > not make much sense.
>  
> Right, the behavior in question has been in xconq since I started
> playing it at least.  For example, type "5 h".  This will stop if
> there is a friendly unit in the way.  Whereas clicking on the cell 5
> cells to the west will not.

I see. Tom, sorry I did not read your email closely enough. As soon as I 
saw multiple move, I started thinking of the 'do_approach_subtask' 
function rather than the UI command to move multiple in a single direction.

I will see what can be done at some point (unless someone else fixes it 
first).

Eric