[freeciv-data] Re: Hexagonal tileset.

["Bobby D. Bryant" <bdbryant@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2003.01.11 13:26:18 -0600 Bobby D. Bryant wrote:

[re using Andreas' hexmap tileset]

> Strictly speaking the horizontal move should be illegal.  Maybe you
> can get the developers to support a hex mode where the horizontal
> move is disabled?

Now that I've played a few minutes I see a couple of other things that 
would need to be hacked in the game engine if they wanted to support 
hexmaps as a first-class game option.

  o In additon to outlawing the horizontal moves (or vertical, for the 
other hex orientation), those two hexes need to be considered "not 
adjacent to the unit" for other game purposes as well, such as 
visibility.

  o For the cities the natural implementation would be to allow 
cultivation in two concentric rings of hexes.  That gives 6+12=18 hexes 
vs. the 20 you can cultivate now, which would change the game dynamics 
a bit but probably not excessively. (In the city map you should cut off 
the two leftmost and rightmost cells, which are actually three steps 
away if you disallow the "cheat" moves, but you should add in one cell 
straight above and below the city.)

Hopefully now that you've shown that the display is pretty 
straightforward the developers will establish a third display mode and 
start incrementally refining the engine's behavior for it.

Bobby Bryant
Austin, Texas