[freeciv-data] Re: max map size limit

[Jason Short <jshort@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mike Kaufman wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 07:14:35PM +0000, Per I. Mathisen wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, Cameron J. Morland wrote:
> >
> > > > > Why the max map size is limited by 200 x-size and 100 y-size ? Is it
> > > > > possible increase this limit ?
> > > > Why would you want to?
> > > >
> > > > A 200x100 game is going to take a while.
> > > That should be the user's choice, no?
> > I have yet to hear from any player that he/she played on 200x100 and found
> > it too small. Until I do, I will happily ignore any requests for larger
> > maps.
>
> Silly Per. I see no problem with MAP_MAX_WIDTH = MAP_MAX_HEIGHT = 255.
This will break under gen-topologies.  I haven't worked out the exact 
math to find out what the maximum allowable values are, though.
The limitation is that positions are sent over the network as _map_ 
coordinates in 1-byte form (MAP_MAX_WIDTH gives the maximum _native_ 
dimension).
jason