CyMap.calculatePathDistance does not produce accurate results

[TheDarkside]

INT calculatePathDistance(CyPlot pSource, CyPlot pDest)

I've been using this function for my Auto Missionaries mod and I'm realizing the results of this function are not always accurate.

I had a Pangea map where my capitol was in the middle and several cities were in varying distances around the capitol

They are all connected by land.

I counted the tile distances from my capitol to each city, and then I used this function to see what it produced for each city.

Most of the time it was right on, but for some unknown reason it wasn't right for 2 out of 6 of my cities.

One city was 5 tiles away, but the function returned 8.

In another case a city was 4 tiles away but the function returned 5.

Try it out yourself to see if you get similar results...

[Gramphos]

It will return the number of tiles te unit would move if sent a goto command to another tile. Sometimes this is higher than the actual number of tiles, since roads may exist in a non sraight line, and following them the long way would be faster than taking the shortcut.

[TheDarkside]

I know what you're saying but I don't think that is the case: the function does not require a CyUnit object parameter, you just give it the from CyPlot and the to CyPlot. And then in my example I had roads connecting these cities and I counted the tiles along the road, because anyway the roads were placed on the shortest possible path.

I'll see if I can get a screen shot to demonstrate this better later