Re: [Freeciv-Dev] Feature suggestion

[Lalo Martins <lalo@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jan 18, Per Mathisen decided to present us with:
> 
> My take on the "channel" discussion is that we should rather let
> engineers create rivers, and use Peter's suggestion that small ships 
> can sail on rivers. I liked that idea.

Would be fine too. The situation that made me think of channels
was when I had two land masses separated by a two-tiles-wide
istmo - as in (" "=water, everything else=land)

             **********...
             **********...
            #0*********...
          ***0#
...***********
...***********

Then if I could channel either "#", I could build a city in one
of the "0" and it would be available as a link between the two
oceans.


> > Yes, this is one thing that bothered me in the proposal. I guess
> > it would be kind of like "goto" - you order it to landfill and
> > it asks "please give the direction", which can be done by
> > clicking or pressing an arrow key. I don't know if the best
> > thing would be to have the engineer stay where he is or move to
> > the ocean square.
> 
> This sounds like a horrible (and user-hostile) kludge. If we are really to
> bother with this, lets make a new sea-engineer (or whatever) which can
> build chunnels, fill landmasses and transform rivers to ocean squares. It
> would need some serious high tech, though.

My point is that in real life _less_ tech is required for
landfilling than is for channels (AFAIK). So perhaps, if we have
the tech for landfilling and it is enabled in the server,
engineers automagically gain the hability to walk on
"landfillable" ocean tiles? Of course the "sea engineer" is
still cool, but for deeper things like sea tunnels.

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