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Leerok the Lacerta

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[flier] civilisations
« on: December 22, 2007, 03:58:00 pm »
Has anyone tried civilisations in fortress mode with wings and the [flier] tag? I've been having problems with the citizens running off cliffs and spamming "dangerous terrain" job cancellations. Has anyone else had this problem?

I'm using version .33g.

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Re: [flier] civilisations
« Reply #1 on: December 22, 2007, 04:08:00 pm »
Dwarves don't have the AI to deal with flying yet.
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Re: [flier] civilisations
« Reply #2 on: December 23, 2007, 12:22:00 am »
Example:

Dwarf:  "I can fly!  I can fly! I can- oh shit, I'm flying. PANIC ATTACK!!!"


Now you have a dwarf who has managed to get himself stuck.  In air.

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Re: [flier] civilisations
« Reply #3 on: December 23, 2007, 10:27:00 am »
Someone actually tried this a while back. They still use the pathfinding as if they were on the ground walking. But, they can still fly if that makes the trip shorter.

Let's say you made a winding path to your fortress entrance, fully walkable but very long and there is no other way for a ground-based critter. However, above the path is a long bridge usually kept retracted. The bridge and the path lead to the same area.

However, if the bridge is destroyed by a tantruming baby or something, dwarves will fly over the winding path, seeing that the other side IS accessible by walking, but realizing flying is faster.

If you were to create a hangar-style entrance, with no way up for a non-flying creature, dwarves wouldn't fly into the base, seeing that there is no walkable path but not recognizing their flight capabilities.

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Re: [flier] civilisations
« Reply #4 on: December 23, 2007, 10:58:00 am »
*Imagines flying baby dwarf destroying the bridge in blind fury*
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Re: [flier] civilisations
« Reply #5 on: December 24, 2007, 03:20:00 am »
How is dwarf AI different from, say, batmen AI? Batmen find their flying way out of the quite assuredly unreachable depths of the chasm quite fine, I think. At least I was pestered by a few of them that did.
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Re: [flier] civilisations
« Reply #6 on: December 24, 2007, 02:51:00 pm »
quote:
Originally posted by Sean Mirrsen:
<STRONG>How is dwarf AI different from, say, batmen AI? Batmen find their flying way out of the quite assuredly unreachable depths of the chasm quite fine, I think. At least I was pestered by a few of them that did.</STRONG>

Yes, but they aren't having to do actual jobs, there just wandering until they see an enemy.

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