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Old December 6th, 2001, 06:38 AM
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Default Re: Up to date History file from SE:IV Gold Beta

Hmmm. As of 1.49, the following still seem to be unresolved.

- Does the colonization minister now care about supply? Relying on the minister now tends to result in pods blithely running out and going at speed 1, even when a path of equal length would go right over a resupply depot. It's viable early (when you don't know about far-away worlds) and post-stellar-harnessing (solar collector), but between those, it gets a touch dodgy.


- Will the pathfinding no longer loop if an enemy blocks it?

If a ship or fleet is to go through a warp point at W (and with an order besides attack), and an enemy fleet has just come through the other side and blocks it, the hapless wanderer will cheerfully expend all its movement points going from 1, to 2, to 1, to 3, to 1... this could make a BIG difference if the enemy fleet consists of, say, a star destroyer or something else which it is crucial to be intercepted immediately.

There may be scenarios where it makes since for the pathfinder to *not* abort when it would repeat a point without achieving another waypoint (specifically given destination/order -- e.g. original location, warp point; IOW, forwards progress), but I'm not sure what those would be.
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