[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Fog of war

[martin <martin.mcmahon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Thue

On 07-Mar-00, Thue Janus Kristensen wrote:
> On Tue, 07 Mar 2000, Daniel Zinsli wrote:
>> I really like the fog of war patch.
>> 
>> However, one thing that I'd like to see is to stop updating city info on
>> cities under the fog.
>> That is, if I see a size 4 city which is under the fog, it might grow
>> to size 5, but since its under the fog, I should still see size 4.
>> 
>> Is this hard to implement?
> 
> Note that you also see fx new roads on fogged lands, and new cities appear.
> 
> If each player were only sent information he could see he would in effect
> have his own minimap (ie player 1 sees the city as size 1, player 2 ses size
> 3, etc). These would have to be stored on the server and in savegames (cause
> else if the client disconnects and reconnects we wouldn't know what to send
> him). We would have to save a city size, if the city have city walls as the
> player sees it, and what improvements (and type) the terrain has. Each tile
> on the client map would also have to have a date, because when 2 players
> exchange maps the one who has most recently seen the tile should have his
> knowledge sent to the other (this could be the turn number).
> 
> Not that hard, but It was easy to do the unit part first. I would also like
> to see what I have got go into the CVS before I do more (*nudge*nudge*).
> Apperantly it has been tested and found stable. :)
> 
> -Thue
> 

> 

you should be able to see the size of your towns .when they grow under fog 
how do you think your nation knows its town sizes .the data in real life is
not sent by sight but other ways (phone,mail,e-mail,fax) on the other hand
units can get lost any place and be out of reach with no data on them coming
in. 

now one for version 2.1 on fog. Planes could be loaded up with dry ice and
they could be used to fly into fog and break it up .this has done at our
local airport before. then fogs falls as hail stones.:) thats the thinking
anyway

 


Regards Martin
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