[0.295][Gameplay] Squiffy pathing when moving a unit out from a city

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I had my sovereign stationed within the city of Estrian, and ordered him to move out to the space immediately to the northwest. Instead of doing that, he took the rather convoluted path as illustrated by the arrows, meaning he effectively spend four movement points doing nothing that turn.

Although, now that I come to think about it, the whole mechanics of garrisoning a unit in a city cause all sorts of weirdness when moving a unit in/out. For example, if you have a city that's, say, five tiles across, and a unit moves into one end of the city with his last movement point, you can immediately eject him, and depending on what tile he ends up in, he could have moved five tiles without expenditure of any movement points.

The fact that you can order a unit outside a city to move to the other side of the city, and he'll move across the city tiles without entering the city, but you can't order a unit to move onto a city tile without him automatically entering the city only adds to the weirdness.

 

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

"the whole mechanics of garrisoning a unit in a city cause all sorts of weirdness when moving a unit in/out. For example, if you have a city that's, say, five tiles across, and a unit moves into one end of the city with his last movement point, you can immediately eject him, and depending on what tile he ends up in, he could have moved five tiles without expenditure of any movement points.

The fact that you can order a unit outside a city to move to the other side of the city, and he'll move across the city tiles without entering the city, but you can't order a unit to move onto a city tile without him automatically entering the city only adds to the weirdness."

Agree.  I mean REALLY AGREE.

Also, one time I moved my hero onto a mine that was separate from the city, and it teleported him into the main city.     :(

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

In fact the unit don't come from the city hub, but from the nearest gates. So it seems the unit travels 5 squares, but in fact it's just one. The units are in fact in all of the city squares.

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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting vieuxchat, reply 2
In fact the unit don't come from the city hub, but from the nearest gates. So it seems the unit travels 5 squares, but in fact it's just one. The units are in fact in all of the city squares.
End of vieuxchat's quote

Nevertheless, the current way its portrayed on the cloth map is very confusing and needs to be changed to make sense there too.