Nowdays ability.value and similar attributes can also contain formulas
(That for example make a heal amount dependent on the remaining hitpointsthe unit has
)
With this the lua ai code should no longer crash in these cases.
- get_terrain and set_terrain replaced with direct indexing operations
- get_map_size mostly replaced with either the iterator or an on_board call.
Only a few cases really needed to know the size of the map for some other purpose.
- shroud and fog operations, village owner, time areas, and location filters
- get_terrain_info replaced with terrain_types table
- Map generation functions create_map and create_filter
This includes several improvements to the retreat hex evaluation:
- Enemy threats are not the dominant rating contribution any more
- Enemy threats are based mostly on HP balance, rather than simply enemy number
- Enemy threat assessment can be modified with the retreat_enemy_weight aspect
- By default, only healing locations are considered as retreat locations, but this can be overridden with the retreat_enemy_weight aspect
The main problem was that the previous calculation was based on the 'caution' aspect. While that is not technically wrong, caution is also used for other purposes and there are mainline (and presumably UMC) scenarios that use large values for caution. In those cases, units retreated that were barely injured. This, again, might even be desirable for some use cases, but it needs to be decoupled from the other uses of caution. Thus, the new 'retreat_factor' aspect is used now.
In addition, the calculation is now based on a unit's maximum hitpoints, rather than its level.
I switched to using defense_on() and resistance_against() incorrectly in 55478e20. I had tested these, but apparently for cases when it does not make a difference ...
The change for movement_on() is for convenience and consistency with other code only.
Also backtracked the removal of wesnoth.get_recall_units, which is now available as wesnoth.units.find_on_recall - it's just more convenient than passing x=recall to wesnoth.units.find