[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Some ideas

[cyb97 <cyb97@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

on 29.05.2000 05:52:27, the guilty party (ie. Robert Rendell), stuck his/her 
head out with the following anouncement:
>Jules Bean wrote:
>} On Sun, May 28, 2000 at 10:36:52AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
>} > Tomasz Wegrzanowski (maniek@xxxxxxxx) wrote:
>} > > If transporter ship sunks, and there was land units capable to
>} > > move on it, and next field is land (or transporter), they shoudn't
>} > > sunk too, but they should be able to enter land.
>} > 
>} > Interesting... that would have to be turned off in Civ2-compatibilty
>} > mode, of course.
>} 
>} This seems unrealistic to me.  If a transport is sunk at sea,
>} everything goes down with it
>
>... but if they're close to shore, they might swim there.  OTOH, I don't
>know that catapults or armour are any good at swimming :)  Perhaps it would
>only work for infantry-like units.  Also, they could perhaps arrive on the
>shore somewhat damaged by the ordeal.
>
>I think it's a cute concept, but I'm not convinced it would improve the
>game.
>
What about placing infantry-like units in life-rafts and allow them to be 
"rescued" with a new transport, or maybe let them move 1 square a turn or 
something like that. The units 
probably should be damaged per turn since they haven't got any life support 
(the support from the cities should be suspended for units requiring support 
until they reach shore), so 
they'll eventually die out if they can't reach shore or be rescued...
I think it'll improve the game quite a bit... You might even expand it so that 
if a different nation picks them up they'll switch sides and go with their 
"new" nation.

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andreas landmark
cyb97 / noXtension