Re: [Freeciv] Re: [Freeciv-Dev] A suggestion which might add something to the game

[Esben Haabendal Soerensen <ehs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 21 Nov 1998, Torkild Hovde Lyngstad wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 21, 1998 at 03:18:51PM +0100, Esben Haabendal Soerensen wrote:
> > On Sat, 21 Nov 1998, Sigurd Brattsti Sørensen wrote:
> > 
> > > Would it be possible to implement that ships could sail up rivers?
> > > It's just something that's been annoying me, it's really quite natural
> > > that
> > > a ship should be able to sail on rivers. In addition it would bring some
> > > new aspects to the game, like being able to move ships form inland lakes
> > > to the ocean.
> > 
> > It is not always that naturally for a ship to be able to sail up
> > a river.
> > Most oceanic ships cannot sail in shallow water as rivers are.
> > 
> > It would be unrealistic to sail a hangarship or battleship up
> > any small river!
> 
> But what about triremes and caravels?

I did not mention those ;-)
I am not sure about caravels, but at least triremes should have no
trouble sailing up any river.

Making triremes able to sail on rivers would add some extra realism,
but when all the advanced shipdesigns would not be affected the gain
would not be very big.

Of-course this would make a good reason for adding more units.  Special
ship-designs that can sail up river would be neat :-)

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