[Freeciv-Dev] Re: patch: Add Paratroopers

[sebauer@xxxxxxxxxxx (Sebastian Bauer)]

Hallo Falk,

>> Another question:
>> Why are the elephants and crusaders not supproted. As far as I can
>> see they only need some changes in the ruleset?
> They are not there because the original authors thought it would harm
> the playing balance. Since rules are no longer hardcoded, this
> argument is no longer valid, because if you don't like those units,
> you can easily edit them out. So I would vote to add them to the civ2
> rules. The problem is of course that the units would have to be drawn.

The trident tiles already contain these unit gfx.
For the default tile set I suggest to simply take the trident gfx
of these units and stretch them. Until somebody draws the units.
But I cannot do this because on my amiga I've probably no xpm
creating program.

bye,
Sebastian Bauer