[Freeciv-Dev] Re: e: suggestion/idea - the world is round

["Marc Strous" <marc_strous@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well, seems like you have given this idea some thought already. The ultimate 
'gridless' civ is attractive and allows for great flexibility. It does seem 
far away from the current, griddy situation. A step by step strategy would 
be required to get there without rewriting the complete code - a strategy 
that would also lead to game benefits in the earlier steps.
For example, the idea of projections could be implemented independently from 
any other steps. To begin with, for a simple "sphere", the complete map 
could be subdivided into 6 projections (all square maps and still with 
square tiles), that are layed out as a 6-sided dice, and all overlapping 
each-other so that part of the area is covered by three projections. When 
scrolling over the map, the client moves from one projection to the next. 
Once this is done other shapes could be imlemented by adding more 
projections and aligning them differently.
Marc

________________________________________________________________________
Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com