Replace the elevation bonus for units with something less resource intensive.

[sanderd17]

The elevation bonus is great for buildings: the higher buildings are placed, the further they can shoot.

But it gives some problems for units: units don't know what their range is until they are at their possible firing location. Which means they possibly have to repath to a better location.

It would be better to replace it with a sort of static attack or armour stat advantage based on elevation difference.

Hint: in UnitAI replace the CheckTargetAttackRange and MoveToTargetAttackRange calls to CheckTargetRange and MoveToTargetRange calls.

[fatherbushido]

(something to check too ​http://trac.wildfiregames.com/ticket/4276#comment:27)

[fatherbushido]

We can perhaps keep the range bonus when attacking but don't take care of it when moving (I mean don't try to move at that max elevated range).

[wraitii]

This is going to be a little irrelevant when my unitMotion branch gets merged, since I will change UnitAI to work on a "distance check" and unitMotion will automatically try to get in the correct range. Will probably call the pathfinder a little less (and it's inevitable to an extent anyway).

[fatherbushido]

wraitii: I thought of that while reading your posts in forum :)

[elexis]

Something related at ​Phab:D781 Removing the simple keyword as it needs some design decision