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Civ has a very strange topology, but the pathfinding algorithm is doing the right thing.
Not like in CivII, where units would get stuck hopping from one tile to another..."The asteroid to kill this dinosaur is still in orbit."
-- Lex User Manual
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Originally posted by Boris Godunov
But the lengths aren't equal. More direct paths can be had to the destinations.
The "two" in the white circle, due to the warrior already having moved, is misleading but there is no shorter route to the destination.Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing?
Then why call him God? - Epicurus
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The routes that are shown are often very good, for both units and auto-road orders for workers. What I like about them is that I would never think to move through those defensive tiles.... the computer can check that for me and take the smartest longterm route. If I don't like its route I just pick another waypoint and go to there first. Easy.
BUT... sometimes the actual route taken - and worse still the actual road laid - is different than the auto route. That stinks.
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Originally posted by Fosse
BUT... sometimes the actual route taken - and worse still the actual road laid - is different than the auto route. That stinks.
-Drachasor"If there's a child on the south side of Chicago who can't read, that matters to me, even if it's not my child. If there's a senior citizen somewhere who can't pay for her prescription and has to choose between medicine and the rent, that makes my life poorer, even if it's not my grandmother. If there's an Arab American family being rounded up without benefit of an attorney or due process, that threatens my civil liberties. It's that fundamental belief -- I am my brother's keeper, I am my sister's keeper -- that makes this country work." - Barack Obama
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This is happening due the strange way how the tiles are now arranged in civ4. A path which normally should be 1,4 longer than the direct path takes the same number of turns to travel. Very weird."The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not. "
--George Bernard Shaw
A fast word about oral contraception. I asked a girl to go to bed with me and she said "no".
--Woody Allen
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While I like the auto-pathing on land, I don't really like it at sea. Ships hug the coastline whenever possible...whether it's your coastline or not. At one point I was sending some transports with a single escort halfway across the map horizontally, but only a tile or two vertically. The pathfinder sent them north to hug the shore of a country I was at war with when it should have just sent them straight east-west...while the path wasn't any longer, it definitely wasn't where I wanted them to go..."In the beginning was the Word. Then came the ******* word processor." -Dan Simmons, Hyperion
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Originally posted by Drachasor
This almost always happens when you tell your troops to attack across a river. If they can take a road over the river to avoid the river penalty, the path will indicate this route, but it is not used for the attack.
-Drachasor
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Originally posted by Tiberius
This is happening due the strange way how the tiles are now arranged in civ4. A path which normally should be 1,4 longer than the direct path takes the same number of turns to travel. Very weird.
And this 'problem' was always there in every civ game (and many other tile based games). The only solution is to make diagonal movement more expensive, which will unnessecary complicate unit movement.
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Originally posted by Nacht
I don't see how a chess board like arrangement of squares can be called strange in any way.
And this 'problem' was always there in every civ game (and many other tile based games). The only solution is to make diagonal movement more expensive, which will unnessecary complicate unit movement.
Taking into account mathematics only, there is absolutely no difference between a civ2 and a civ4 map. However, because of the 45 degrees rotation, the perception changes and I have this weird feeling that something is wrong with the unit movement, whereas in civ2/3 never had this feeling."The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not. "
--George Bernard Shaw
A fast word about oral contraception. I asked a girl to go to bed with me and she said "no".
--Woody Allen
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