Re: [Freeciv-Dev] Re : Galleon...

[Greg Wooledge <wooledge@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

David Pfitzner (dwp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:

> Greg Wooledge wrote:

> > Unfortunately, it seems that there's a special case for Caravels, so
> > this argument becomes somewhat moot.
> 
> I'm not sure what you mean; Caravels have non-zero attack points,
> and they cause unhappiness for Republics.

Triremes have the FieldUnit flag, but Caravels do not.  This flag
satisfies the is_field_unit() function, which is used during happiness
calculation (server/cityturn.c starting at line 486).

What this means, if I'm reading it right, is that Caravels will cause
some unhappiness for cities, but in some situations a Trireme would
cause *more* unhappiness.

I don't know whether this is considered a bug or a feature.

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