[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Watchtowers

[Cameron Morland <cjmorlan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 17 Jun 2000, Falk Hueffner wrote:

> The problem is thta currently terrain improvements have no owner,
> while watchtowers, of course, should only serve their owner. This
> would make problems when pillaging the tower: it is not obvious whose
> vibibility count to decrement. Does anybody know a workaround for
> that, or would the only possibility be to introduce an "owner" field
> for each tile?

I was thinking a similar thing earlier, but thinking more about making spy
satellites. Such a creation would either be geostationary (staying above
the same point on the planet) or in some other sort of orbit, in which
case it would carve out a elliptical swath around the planet, and if set
up appropriately (polar orbit, I guess), would give images of the entire
board. Thoughts? It didn't seem that it would be terribly hard to code.


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