Opened 8 years ago

Closed 6 years ago

#4060 closed defect (fixed)

Unknown land / nomad map has unfair mountain

Reported by: elexis Owned by: elexis
Priority: Should Have Milestone: Alpha 23
Component: Maps Keywords:
Cc: Patch:

Description (last modified by elexis)

In one of the maps generated by unknown land / unknown nomad map script, there is a central mountain that divide all players with only a small passage between neighboring players.

This mountain is accessible to exactly one player. Thus his team can easily go onto that mountain and deny the enemy trade. As the other team can't reach that mountain, this must be fixed.

Change History (2)

comment:1 by elexis, 6 years ago

Description: modified (diff)
Keywords: simple removed
Milestone: BacklogAlpha 23
Owner: set to elexis
Status: newassigned

It's the "Passes" variant of the Unknown maps. The issue can be observed vey well with the pathfinder grid in atlas (#4842).

(In this variant there is a small disk shaped area in the middle, acting as a filler for any part of the central area that wasn't filled by the mountainrange. So first thought was to increase the size, but the bug still occurs when increasing the radius by a factor of 3.)

The issue occurs exactly when the waveforms of two neighboring mountains coincidentally result in them being nearly parallel. Only then the mountains become reachable after the smoothing of the elevation with neighboring tiles.

Reducing the smoothing from 3 to 1 solves the issue described in this report, (but not the nomad mountain bug reported in #3140)

comment:2 by elexis, 6 years ago

Resolution: fixed
Status: assignedclosed

In 20434:

Prevent the mountains on the Unknown map variant "Passes" from becoming passable to only one player. Fixes #4060.

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