Topic: Soldier retreat when defending military site.
Astuur
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Joined: 2009-02-28, 09:08
Posts: 733  One Elder of Players Location: Frankfurt / Germany |
Posted at: 2011-11-18, 15:40
I don't quite understand under what conditions a soldier is allowed to retreat into his building when wounded (apart from the retreat level)
and when he is forced to fight on until death. Being no programmer, I apologize for all my suggestions that imply undue workload and for other misjudgements due to lack of expertise or relevant skills. 
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Fopper
Joined: 2010-09-10, 06:50
Posts: 23  Pry about Widelands Location: The Netherlands |
Posted at: 2011-11-19, 07:07
If I am not mistaken, if the soldier wins a fight and his health is below a certain threshold he retreats. When above that threshold he will start another fight and might die.
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Astuur
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Joined: 2009-02-28, 09:08
Posts: 733 One Elder of Players Location: Frankfurt / Germany |
Posted at: 2011-11-19, 07:19
That is clear so far, but it seems to me that in some cases, he is intercepted on his way home and engaged in another fight, and that is the part I don't really know about. Edited: 2011-11-19, 07:19
Being no programmer, I apologize for all my suggestions that imply undue workload and for other misjudgements due to lack of expertise or relevant skills.
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borim
Joined: 2009-09-04, 11:13
Posts: 52  Likes to be here Location: germany |
Posted at: 2011-11-19, 09:52
For me it is a normal behavior when the soldiers see an enemy sneaking away, that they intercept him. But about the condition when they do it, I can only guess...
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Personal_Joke
Joined: 2011-08-10, 13:39
Posts: 29 Pry about Widelands Location: New Zealand |
Posted at: 2011-11-19, 11:58
Sometimes when being attacked by multiple enemy soldiers I find that 1 of my soldiers might try to fight multiple soldiers before returning to the building, but sometimes they only kill 1 before returning. I've even had situations where a fully upgraded soldier will come out of my building and fight until death, taking down 6 or so non-upgraded enemy soldiers with him, instead of going inside and letting another soldier have a turn. Ofcourse i have no idea why Edited: 2011-11-19, 11:58
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Astuur
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Joined: 2009-02-28, 09:08
Posts: 733 One Elder of Players Location: Frankfurt / Germany |
Posted at: 2011-11-19, 14:21
Quite right, had the same issue with a fully trained, badly wounded soldier on his way home. Being no programmer, I apologize for all my suggestions that imply undue workload and for other misjudgements due to lack of expertise or relevant skills.
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ixprefect
Joined: 2009-02-27, 13:28
Posts: 367  Tribe Member |
Posted at: 2011-11-21, 09:59
That stuff is kind of mysterious, and personally I feel that some of it should be changed. For example, how come that an attacking soldier can just decide to go home and not be blocked by all his comrades standing around? You see, normally soldiers block each other while walking, but if a soldier manages to survive and decides to retreat, suddenly he is no longer blocked. That doesn't seem reasonable to me.
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SirVer
Joined: 2009-02-19, 14:18
Posts: 1445 One Elder of Players Location: Germany - Munich |
Posted at: 2011-11-21, 10:30
Most of this was raul ferriz work. He vanished into oblivion a while ago (that is the way of all earthly widelands developers - one day they are gone. There are rare exceptions of people who keep reappearing after being gone for long like ixprefect or sigra
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QCS
Joined: 2009-12-29, 21:47
Posts: 256 Tribe Member |
Posted at: 2011-11-21, 17:51
This problem could be avoided by creating 'militia' on the defender side to oppose the number of attackers if they attack with more people. This militia should have very limited fighting capabilities, but it could help defenders to escape. Don't know if that's possible with current lua events - I'm a bit out of sync with development CMake is evil.
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