Actions

An action is a pair (avatar, location). The action is registered onto the WorldMap by being appended to a cell.

The action is processed by calling the apply function.

• if the action is legal it is applied
• if not it is rejected

The exposed interface is:

• apply
  • has to return true if application succeeded
  • attaches an event to the avatar
• is_legal
  • returns if an action is legal from the point of view of the map
  • the action gets applied or rejected accordingly
• reject
  • attaches a (failed) event to the avatar

Each of the 3 elements of the interface are implemented differently by different types of actions.

The current types of actions as:

• WaitAction
  • wait is always legal
  • no actions get attached to the avatar
• MoveAction
  • is_legal
    • the responsibility is passed to world_map
  • apply
    • adds a move event to the avatar
    • change the avatar's world view
    • updates the map accordingly
  • reject
    • the failed event is added to the avatar
  • overrides the processing of the action
    • the action is chained in the action list of a cell
    • see World Map and Turn Manager for details
• AttackAction
  • is_legal
    • attacking is legal is the avatar is attackable
  • attack
    • attaches the event to the attacker avatar
    • attaches the event to the attacked avatar
    • if the attacked avatar dies it is respawned