[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Watchtowers

["martin.mcmahon" <martin.mcmahon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Cameron the satellites should have a life time of say 10 - 20 turns.

On 17-Jun-00, Cameron Morland wrote:
> 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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