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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0006483 | Dwarf Fortress | Dwarf Mode -- Jobs, Military | public | 2014-05-12 10:57 | 2014-10-05 18:34 |
| Reporter | Quietust | Assigned To | Toady One | ||
| Priority | normal | Severity | minor | Reproducibility | have not tried |
| Status | resolved | Resolution | fixed | ||
| Product Version | 0.34.11 | ||||
| Fixed in Version | 0.40.13 | ||||
| Summary | 0006483: Siege engines don't properly respect operator skill level | ||||
| Description | When a dwarf fires a siege engine, it aims at a location 60 tiles away from the siege engine (in the appropriate direction) and up to 10 tiles to each side, and if the dwarf passes a Siege Operator skill roll (1d15 <= skill_level) then the sideways drift is eliminated. If the projectile is a stone (being fired from a catapult), its trajectory is then calculated to see if any hostile units are in the way, and this is used to determine the stone's arc height (so it will land on the units instead of flying past them), while a ballista arrow will simply fly as far as it can. At least that's how it looks like it's supposed to work. In reality, the skill roll's result is effectively ignored - the "more accurate" coordinates are only stored in temporary variables (which get used for the catapult stone height calculation) but never atually get written back into the projectile itself. As a result, a Legendary catapult operator will always miss a stationary target if it is standing off to either side. | ||||
| Additional Information | This bug dates back to version 0.23 and likely all the way back to the original implementation of siege engines. | ||||
| Tags | siege | ||||
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A minor correction - whether this bug is fixed or not, highly skilled catapult operators will still miss targets off to the side, but fixing the bug will make it more apparent why they are missing (namely, the stones would fly perfectly straight and past their targets, as opposed to flying to the side and going through their targets). In either case, fixing the bug would make ballistas more useful, as it would allow them to be used properly in long corridors without worrying about hitting the walls. |
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If it was fixed I might actually start using them. This explains quite a bit... Quietust, I'm sure you get told this a lot, but you are awesome. |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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| 2014-05-12 10:57 | Quietust | New Issue | |
| 2014-05-12 12:03 | Quietust | Note Added: 0024755 | |
| 2014-05-12 12:05 | Quietust | Note Edited: 0024755 | |
| 2014-05-12 12:06 | Quietust | Note Edited: 0024755 | |
| 2014-07-31 09:30 | Talvieno | Note Added: 0028039 | |
| 2014-09-13 06:41 | Nevenrial | Tag Attached: siege | |
| 2014-09-13 07:04 |
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Assigned To | => user6 |
| 2014-09-13 07:04 |
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Status | new => confirmed |
| 2014-09-13 11:50 | Toady One | Status | confirmed => resolved |
| 2014-09-13 11:50 | Toady One | Fixed in Version | => Next Version |
| 2014-09-13 11:50 | Toady One | Resolution | open => fixed |
| 2014-09-13 11:50 | Toady One | Assigned To | user6 => Toady One |
