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

[Steve Hodge <shodge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Falk Hueffner wrote:
> 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       Units sent into dominated territory can be ordered to be withdrawn,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.

In SMAC you can build cities outside your territory. The rule you're
think of has been implemented in other games such as Settlers. If we
were to implement that rule (and it would be cool to have both options)
I think we'd want something other than a city to extend the radius - the
watchtowers that have been recently discused would be ideal.

Regards,
Steve Hodge