[Freeciv-Dev] Watchtowers

[Artur Biesiadowski <abies@xxxxxxxxx>]

Subject of watchtowers was mentioned lately. There seems to be a problem
with making them a terrain feature, as they have owner, there could be
many variations of them etc. Maybe instead of making them special case
of terrain feature, make them special case of unit ?

Pro:
- visibility would be handled by current code
- no problem with ownership
- you can specify their abilities/sight/etc in ruleset

Against:
- need special handling during fight/movement (so they will not show up)
- are not built in cities, but through some special menu option ?
- should not be bribable, be ever teleported to city for various reasons
etc, etc.

Anyway, I suppose it should be easier to take unit route - especially
that if it would be done it will be easy to allow other kinds of
immobile unit-like structures using same interface.


Artur