Re: Major bug and what to do about it (long)

[Eric McDonald <mcdonald at phy dot cmich dot edu>]

Hans Ronne wrote:

> No, your patch addressed a different problem: the fire-into-empty cells
> cheat. 

OK. Then I misunderstood your complaint.

> What I am talking about is attempting to fire at unit views in order
> to find out if the unit is still sitting there or if it is a ghost view.
> And this exploit is still possible, both in the tcltk interface and in the
> mac interface. In effect, what it means is that you can attempt to fire at
> unit views for free until you target a real unit, in which case the fire
> action will execute and you will be charged.

Right. And I saw that that was a problem, and wrote a comment (in the 
aforementioned patch) that suggested "attempted fire" as a way to deal 
with the problem you describe.

> It is not as bad as the fire-into-empty-cells cheat, but certainly not
> something that should be permitted without any cost in acps or materials.

Agreed.

> Only real actions, whether they fail or not, should provide information
> about the enemy side and its units.

Agreed.

Eric