I think what the other people are talking about is situations like this.
See the marked intersection. Now, despite the right path being an obvious dead end, it will continue to go down that path until every square is marked red, and inevitably die to the lava, instead of just taking a different path altogether.
thank you again :) if your bit goes to that right path and meet the red (!) tiles, do the bit come back painting to red the rest of the path?
I mean, sometimes we are getting back from a long path of dead ends and the lava kills us in the middle so the bit couldn't mark as red all the way back, but in the next time he goes there he should be marking as red the rest of the path...
well yes, it does paint the path red slowly, i guess people are just annoyed with how long it takes, or that it goes down the path in the first place, when there are only dead ends. rather than immediatly marking the entire path as red, the bit has to walk all the way in and back again.
hey, thank you again! i added somethings to make dead ends less anoying:
- the bit now overheat slower and cool faster
- you get 5 points per tile painted red when returning from a dead end
i know this don't fix the exact problem you are mentioning, but i hope it helps to make them less "oh no, what a waste of timeee"...
i'm also trying to work on a system so the player can 'change direction', but not sure when i will be able to finish it yet
