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In freeciv 2.4.1, the fighters dont behave like in older versions. If a fighter with 10 movepoints should go to fom city A to city B, which is 15 tiles away, with another city C in the middle, 8 tiles away, the fighter dont stop in city C with 2 movepoints left and waiting for the next turn. Instead, it will go halfway to city B, using all movepoints and die end of turn bcause of no fuel.

Is this a bug or is is meant to slow the game, because you must take more care of every single fighter?

It's originally meant to fix the following situation: Fighter with 10 move points wants to go from city A to city B, they are 10 tiles apart from each other. However, there's an airbase inbetween which is in the middle. In that case, the fighter will fly to the airbase and wait for the next turn, thus stealing you one precious turn.
It seems when fixing this, someone overlooked something and accidentally broke it. Either cazfi sees this, or you can report it as a bug on GNA.org.

Caedo wrote:It's originally meant to fix the following situation: Fighter with 10 move points wants to go from city A to city B, they are 10 tiles apart from each other. However, there's an airbase inbetween which is in the middle. In that case, the fighter will fly to the airbase and wait for the next turn, thus stealing you one precious turn.

This is presumably referring to the fix for bug #20786, which first appeared in 2.4.0-beta2...

Caedo wrote:It seems when fixing this, someone overlooked something and accidentally broke it.

Since reported as bug #21359. Indeed, the previously-mentioned fix exposed a latent bug in the pathfinding code, causing suicide. A fix for that has just been committed to svn, and will be in the next releases (including 2.4.2).