[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Materials in Freeciv

[Gerhard Killesreiter <killesreiter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

* "Martin" == Martin Olveyra schrieb am Fri, 11 Aug 2000 16:57:14 -0300:

> Another feature that must be implemented in this case is a
> distributed based material managing. That means, any material
> surplus of a city can be "absorbed" by another cities to complete
> their respective productions. This is very important due to the
> relative scarcity of specials.

This will be interesting for making a colonization modpack :)

> 1- Four kind of materials were added --oil, iron, stone, coal--
> which can represent abstractly a bigger amount of real materials. 

Could you take a more general approach? Colonization needs more
materials :)

> For example, oil can be extracted from seals, whales or mineral oil. 
> Coal material is the production of forests tiles (wood) and coal
> specials tiles, etc. The code can easily be modified to add or
> remove materials. (This part is actually done)

This is nice. In colonization you can use cotton to make fabrics, cane 
to make rum, etc.

Cheers,
        Gerhard