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Prevent blocking during placement
This would assist players in knowing whether or not their latest placement in fact blocks the monsters' path. Now, some might say that not blocking is a skill one must learn. In a sense, that is a correct notion. However, that is probably the only reason to not implement automatic block checking. Typically one blocks due to a mistake or oversight. And often the results can be game ending.
Regardless, this will not be implemented without a bit of feedback since this would essentially change the core gameplay. Although, I personally see no honest downsides.
Another interesting notion is that if blocks were guaranteed not to happen, then I do not believe that creeps would need the ability to attack. In turn, this would mean that a player's maze being attacked would no longer be a concern.
Of course, that does not mean that creeps will not become confused. Because of this, issuing a move order periodically to them may be something to consider.
At the very least, an improvement to the existing block behavior could be implemented.
Implementation of this will proceed. Details are still up in the air, but due to the nature of the problem (a 2D grid where a path must be guaranteed between landmarks and predictable wall extensions) it may not be necessary to implement a pathfinding algorithm (e.g. A*).
This should be much simpler to introduced in Lua. Jass had the ops limit, and working around it was a pain. Not to mention the lack of performant data structures.