[1.7] Spiders still webbing twice

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In a tactical battle with two spiders, one of the spiders webbed my units successfully. Then, immediately after that, the second spider tried to web the same unit (again successfully) within the same turn. I am guessing either:

1) The spell effects are checked at the beginning of each turn so the second spider doesn't "see" that the target unit is already webbed.

2) The spell effect of "web" is buggy and it is not seen by the targeting AI.

 

I remember this being an old problem, it still exists in 1.7. I don't know about other spell effects.

 

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

I suppose another possibility exists:

 

3) The spiders are stupid so they pick random units. So this is not a bug.

 

I am not sure if that's the intent though.

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

It is a bug, as they aren't supposed to be able to re-target the same unit with the same spell when the effect of the spell are still in effect.  It was considered a bug when this was done by ... Wilding Shaman, I think, re-casting Shrink multiple times on the same unit (in that case the effect stacked, at least visually, making even large units very tiny).

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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

I think this might have something to do with the simultaneous execution of AI moves, perhaps?  The spiders both web before the status is checked?  Similar to how two AI units can end up on the same tile in the tactical combat map?  Otherwise it should have been an easy fix.