Uses for change-type action?
Steve Schacher
srschacher@my-Deja.com
Wed Aug 23 16:33:00 GMT 2000
I was toying with the Western game, where each unit was an individual person. I was trying to use the change-type action to represent a person who had been aiming at someone else. My intention was to change-type from PERSON to PERSON-WITH-AIM-2, which was a type that had no movement allowance, but had an improved to-hit percentage. This represents the fact that a person who is aiming cannot move without losing his aim. a PERSON-WITH-AIM-2 can change-type to PERSON-WITH-AIM-4, who would have even better hit-percentages. In order to do anything except shoot, the PERSON-WITH-AIM-x would have to change-type back to PERSON.
In short, I was trying to use change-type to change the to-hit percentages for a unit. The trick would have been to see if an AI-controlled unit would recognize that a unit it could change to had better hit odds than the unit that it currently was. Of course, the strategy would be, do I continue aiming and get better odds, or do I get a quicker shot off and hope it hits?
I stopped working on it until the new Windows port is ready.
Steve
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