[Freeciv-Dev] Re: SMAC-style borders (was: Re: Re: Plans for 1.12)

[Falk Hueffner <falk.hueffner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tony Stuckey <stuckey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 05:54:36PM +0200, Falk Hueffner wrote:
> > Robert Rendell <rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > > - SMAC-style borders around nations
> > 
> > Could somebody who has played SMAC perhaps elaborate on this? What's
> > the effect of the borders? How are they set?
> 
>       When you create a city, the (radius 7?) squares surrounding it are
> marked with a colored fog to demonstrate ownership.
>       When another city is created with an overlapping border area, the
> "stronger" influence dominates the appropriate squares.  Thus 2 cities 8
> tiles apart will each dominate 4 tiles directly between them.
>       Units sent into dominated territory can be ordered to be withdrawn,
> and creating a city in dominated territory can be an act of war.

Can cities be built outside the own territory? Are there units to
expand it? I think it might be fun if you could only build on own
territory, and it also might slow down expansion a bit, which is
really a bit fast currently.

        Falk