Shooting through walls.

[ESTSWEL]

What's the point of building walls if they don't protect?

Maybe it should be done so that it is impossible to shoot at units behind the wall?

[hyperion]

31 minutes ago, ESTSWEL said:

What's the point of building walls if they don't protect?

To obstruct movement.

[ESTSWEL]

3 hours ago, hyperion said:

To obstruct movement.

Logically,but I meant protection from arrows, etc. Maybe I don't know something?

Edited December 16, 2022 by ESTSWEL

[Player of 0AD]

It's good old age-of-empires-tradition that one can shoot through buildings ;-)

[hyperion]

On 16/12/2022 at 3:22 AM, ESTSWEL said:

Logically,but I meant protection from arrows, etc. Maybe I don't know something?

Walls don't obstruct vision either. Also trees, mountains, structures et al don't inhibit ranged attacks either, so why should walls?

[gui456wSERTDYF]

Actually it would be nice, that walls obstruct vision. That would also make them more useful. Nowadays nobody makes walls ever.

[Silier]

If you put archers on walls i believe they get additional protection from it.

Agree vision obstruction from walls would be nice, but it needs really good code design because walls can be build and destroyed and vision is calculated from every player owned entity so might hurt performance a lot. 

Also currently there is issue with ai seeing everything by design and there is also unitai code depending on vision of units.

To the original topic, with current rate of fire of units in game, checking collision for each arrow is performance nightmare

Edited December 27, 2022 by Silier

[Dakara]

Nothing is possible about it, or else it would take too long to develop for a disappointing result.