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Goober5000andClaude Opus 5.5 1af0eb82bf apply $fix ai target recovery's pursuit filter only to targets picked for pursuit
The actively-pursues filter added to "$fix ai target recovery:" in #7736 was applied to every target search.  But a ship's target is not only used for pursuit: it also drives the ship's turrets, other ships' guard reactions, and attacker counts.  In retail SM1-04, the friendly Knossos (which does not pursue fighters) was made to target the Behemoth instead of a Mara, which caused the Mara guards to react to the protected Knossos endlessly instead of rushing the player.

The filter now applies only where the target is chosen for maneuvering:
* find_enemy() and get_nearest_objnum() take a required for_pursuit parameter; automatic searches pass ai_targets_for_pursuit(), which is true only in AIM_CHASE or AIM_STRAFE
* guard reactions, retaliation (dynamic chase), and the retargets in ai_big_chase_attack() and ai_big_maybe_enter_strafe_mode() skip ships the attacker won't pursue, via the new ai_declines_pursuit()
* ai_attack_wing() prefers living wing members the ship will pursue; if there are none, it holds a member as an explicit order to attack an unpursued ship does
* get_nearest_objnum() holds an unpursued member of the enemy wing rather than leaving the wing

Since refused targets are no longer picked for pursuit, ai_chase() no longer needs to drop them.  Retail behavior is unchanged when the flag is disabled.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
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