The idea that Players, Enemies, Missiles, and Medics should all derive from one base object is very common to programmers new to object-oriented programming. It makes a lot of sense on paper that if you have a Raider and a SuperRaider, one should inherit from the other. I believe this comes from how inheritance is taught. When you are first learning about inheritance, you will almost always see a picture similar to this:
Figure 3.1 - A typical inheritance diagram when learning to program
Many introductory programming courses are so focused on the mechanics of inheritance that they forget to tell you ...
