[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Sail River: Next Step

[Geoffrey Dunn <geoffrey@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

These are great ideas for units but some of them should have other tech
requirements built in for them. Canal has already been discussed and I
think Heavy canal is late enough in the game that a mix of requirements
will do but I'll pick on the Barge unit. It's rare that a player would
have trade and not have researched seafaring so from a game play sense
you would see a lot of barges and caravans would become a rarity. You
could balance things out by either limiting the barges movement (2
instead of 3 for trireme) or put in a new tech requirement for it.
Actually now I think about it the first idea seems the better choice.
Hmm... anyway think about it from a game play sense as well as a
historical sense.

                        Geoff

On Thu, 24 Aug 2000 18:48:28 +0200 Erik Sigra <freeciv@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
> Now that the sail_river patch by Jerzy approaches completion, I can't
> help posting some ideas :-)
> 
> Terrain Improvement:Canal
> 
> Terrain Improvement:Heavy canal:
> 
> Unit:Barge (Combination of Caravan and Trireme. Movement like Trireme.)
> 
> Unit:Container Ship (Combination of Transport and Freight.)

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