[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Switching production

["Andrew McGuinness" <andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Date sent:              Thu, 13 Jan 2000 20:32:48 +0000
From:                   Jason Todd <idjason@xxxxxxxx>
To:                     Freeciv-dev <freeciv-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject:                [Freeciv-Dev] Re: Switching production

> > The behaviour I would like to see when switching
> > production would be:
> > 
> > You get the 50% penalty when switching between types,
> > but this is judged from what you were producing at the
> > start of the turn.
> > 
> > e.g. You were producing City Wall, and had 20 shields
> > stored up.  You switch, perhaps accidentally, to
> > producing settlers, and now have 10 shields stored.
> > You change this (in the same turn) to Marketplace, and
> > you now have 20 shields again, as you have not changed
> > types from the start.
> > 
> > What do people think?
> 
> That almost sounds like you would different shields for improvements and
> units, not to mention wonders.
>  
I suppose, almost, although I don't think that would be worth 
implementing.  All I really meant was that the changes that you 
make during a turn should be effectively "batched" into one 
transaction, largely to allow mistakes to be undone.

On the xaw3d client, I have been bitten by single-clicking the 
"change" area on the city list screen, with the effect of changing 
production to whatever happened to pop up under the mouse cursor.

I think it's reasonable to say that once you have added some "unit" 
shields to your "improvement" shields, you have really converted 
those "improvement" shields to "unit" shields (at 50% efficiency), 
and cannot convert them back without further loss.  But if you 
change your mind before any further production could have taken 
place, I think of those shields as not really converted, just ordered 
to be converted, and the order can be countermanded.


Andrew McGuinness                     andrew_mcguinness@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Luton, Beds. UK