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[Nicolai Hähnle <prefect_@xxxxxxx>]

Am Monday 08 March 2010 22:32:41 schrieb Nicolai Hähnle:
> Am Monday 08 March 2010 11:10:33 schrieb Timowi:
> > I had a look at the code again and I think it's the following problem:
> > A soldier launched from a militarysite has a task "buildingwork" and then
> > task "attack" or "defense". Soldiers launched from a headquarter (or
> > warehouse?) only have task "defense". If pop_task is called in the first
> > case task "buildingwork" takes the solider home (or to a warehouse). In
> > the second case the solider is forever at his last position without any
> > task (But he is a worker of his building).
> >
> > Either calling pop_task without being home or something with the sending
> > of soldiers from a headquarter is wrong. I am not completely familiar
> > with the task system but I think pop_task should no be called if the
> > worker is not at his building.
>
> Keep in mind that's it's been a long time since I was really deep in that
> code. However: The case of an empty task stack is supposed to be handled by
> init_auto_task. Unless the soldier has 0 hit points left, this should be
> handled by Worker::init_auto_task which should start the gowarehouse task.
> However, it seems that the gowarehouse task then incorporates the worker
> without checking whether it is actually at the warehouse's position. That
> is bound to cause problems later on.
>
> I suggest to add a check in gowarehouse_update which, instead of
> incorporating the worker, will zero out her location if she's not actually
> at the warehouse position. What do you think?

Come to think of it, just pushing a return to building task should be better 
than zeroing the location.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/530646
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Status in Widelands: Confirmed

Bug description:
Full description here, only tracked here to be markes as show stopper for rc1

https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2961814&group_id=40163&atid=427221