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Re: time.g weirdness
- From: Hans Ronne <hronne at comhem dot se>
- To: Eric McDonald <mcdonald at phy dot cmich dot edu>
- Cc: xconq7 at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 19:01:12 +0200
- Subject: Re: time.g weirdness
- References: <l03130300bd3ff7809353@[212.181.162.155]>
>On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, Hans Ronne wrote:
>
>> Right. I'm looking into this. Even more important, however, is to fix the
>> "map the unknown by clicking in it" exploit, which sneaked back in when we
>> removed Peter's pathfinding.
>
>As I recall, it was also in the early version of Peter's
>pathfinder, and we ended up with all that CMD_EXPLORE and
>PND_UNMAPPED stuff and whatnot as part of the fix. (After he
>hacked over my initial hack, which just assigned unexplored hexes
>a value of 1 or 2.)
Well, the problem in that case was actually the opposite: it was impossible
to move into the unknown because the early version of Peter's pathfinder
always returned false. I think the problems we see now are due to
subsequent changes in the command pre-flight code which were in prompted by
and in part depended on Peter's code. Some of these changes were kept when
the pathfinding was removed.
I have just checked out the November 12 sources. My intention is to try to
restore command processing as closely as possible to how it worked back
then. With no path-finding algorithm, some of these pre-flight checks make
little sense.
Hans