Re: [Wesnoth-dev] Simultaneous moves

[David White]

> I was however wondering if the optionality should not in fact be set 
> by WML, that is left to the map/campaign developers? If it was, then 
> it would be up to them/possible for them to take simultaneous moves 
> into account when balancing the scenarios. Because I think it would be 
> very hard to balance a scenario so it works well both with and without 
> simultaneous moves.

Personally I don't think that the effect on the game will be as much as 
many people seem to suppose. In most human-ally-vs-AI games I play, I 
would say that 80+% of moves I make are in theaters of battle totally 
seperate from my human allies. I would imagine that in the remaining 20% 
of situations, where human allies are fighting with their units in close 
proximity, a simple convention would arise: something like the player 
with the lower side number moves their units in the shared theater 
first, and then the next player moves, except in situations where it 
would be of tactical advantage for the second player to move some units 
first, in which case the first player might say so, and the players 
could discuss it.

I think that the only time it would be of real concern is in scenarios 
where there are extensive complicated events. A campaign such as HttT 
could probably handle sim-moves very easily, because it's not 
event-intensive. A campaign such as Under the Burning Suns possibly 
couldn't. For that reason, we might want to have a way to disable it in 
WML. But by default, I think it'd be up to the player.

Personally, the kind of games I'd want to play co-op wouldn't be very 
storyline or event-intensive. I don't think such games work so well in 
co-op mode anyway.

Anyhow, after talking it over in the forums, and the very helpful 
feedback from silene, I am thinking we should delay implementation of 
this feature until after 1.0, since it will be quite difficult.

David