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The unit AI is more about being predictable than optimal. Attack Move causes Scorcher to jink around near max range because otherwise there wouldn't be a simple way to tell Scorcher to jink around near max range. If you want Scorcher to dive in, then issue a Move command. Making it dive in against some arbitrary set of targets would also hurt its predictability.
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The unit AI is more about being predictable than optimal. Attack Move causes Scorcher to jink around near max range because otherwise there wouldn't be a simple way to tell Scorcher to jink around near max range. If you want Scorcher to dive in, then issue a Move command. Making it dive in against some arbitrary set of targets would also hurt its predictability.
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Generally
Attack
Move
mean
"move
so
that
you
are
shooting
stuff,
but
try
to
preserve
health",
not
"move
and
shoot
stuff
optimally".
Optimal
depends
on
the
rate
that
you,
the
player,
want
to
trade
your
units
health
for
enemy
units
health.
Optimal
is
for
the
player
to
decide.
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Generally
Attack
Move
mean
"move
so
that
you
are
shooting
stuff,
but
try
to
preserve
health",
not
"move
and
shoot
stuff
optimally".
Optimal
broadly
depends
on
the
rate
that
you,
the
player,
want
to
trade
your
units
health
for
enemy
units
health.
Optimal
is
for
the
player
to
decide.
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Attack Move works the way it does because the common tactical choices cluster around "keep at max range" and "rush in". If we just had Move then the "rush in" choice would be much cheaper than "keep at max range" in terms of player attention, which would warp tactics space towards it. Also keep in mind that there is a lot of nuance around these clusters that will encourage players to manually control units for the best outcomes. Attack Move isn't meant to be a replacement for manual keeping at max range, it is just there to give players a simple way to keep at max range that is on par with a simple Move command to dive in.
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Attack Move works the way it does because the common tactical choices cluster around "keep at max range" and "rush in". If we just had Move then the "rush in" choice would be much cheaper than "keep at max range" in terms of player attention, which would warp tactics space towards it. Also keep in mind that there is a lot of nuance around these clusters that will encourage players to manually control units for the best outcomes. Attack Move isn't meant to be a replacement for manual keeping at max range, it is just there to give players a simple way to keep at max range that is on par with a simple Move command to dive in.
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If the current Attack Move behaviour for Scorcher is rarely useful then it could be tweaked. Perhaps it should jink around a bit closer to its target, to strike a better balance between safety and damage. If Attack Move doesn't implement a reasonably good "keep at max range" tactic then it may as well not exist, so the behavior should put Scorcher somewhere at a reasonably common/desirable point around "keep at max range" in tactics space.
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If the current Attack Move behaviour for Scorcher is rarely useful then it could be tweaked. Perhaps it should jink around a bit closer to its target, to strike a better balance between safety and damage. If Attack Move doesn't implement a reasonably good "keep at max range" tactic then it may as well not exist, so the behavior should put Scorcher somewhere at a reasonably common/desirable point around "keep at max range" in tactics space.
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I don't like state toggles, especially for combat. The position and type of an issued command is a much more fluid way to control units. We have state toggles that work, but I don't want to go down the path of adding behaviour tweaks for individual units. It feels a bit undiscoverable, and the work could be better spent on improving the default for everyone.
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I don't like state toggles, especially for combat. The position and type of an issued command is a much more fluid way to control units. We have state toggles that work, but I don't want to go down the path of adding behaviour tweaks for individual units. It feels a bit undiscoverable, and the work could be better spent on improving the default for everyone.
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Scorcher amove behavior