There is also some exciting work going on to improve the path finding of formations to make them behave more naturally: https://gitea.wildfiregames.com/0ad/0ad/pulls/8608
replyA realistic version would have unit commanders pathfinding over long distance, and the plebs following them unless they got merc'ed
replyI think this actually can be used to optimize the pathfinding. Basically create a fake unit that is used for the real/complex path, then have the other units follow it with basic collision or a very tuned down pathfinding algorithm similar to the hack I did where I just counted loop iterations and bailed after some threshold.
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