Re:0 A.D. Release 28: Boiorix
by sdwr on Monday February 23, 2026 @10:43AM
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The perfect information version calculates the path once on click, the local version needs to recalculate every time the unit moves (and new tiles are "seen")
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Re:0 A.D. Release 28: Boiorix
by daymanstep on Monday February 23, 2026 @01:59PM
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Recalculating the path every game tick is too expensive. What brood war did was to just have units wait for a second when they collide with something before recalculating the path. This resulted in horrendous "traffic jams".
It's also why Brood War players got into the habit of spam-clicking, because the game would recompute paths every time you issued a command, so spam-clicking resulted in smoother movement.