[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Sailing on Rivers

[Erik Sigra <freeciv@xxxxxxx>]

Reinier Post wrote:
> 
> > I believe that when Sid Meier decided about the 1/3 rate on rivers, his
> > intention was to simulate the possibility that land units could be
> > transported by river boats, but the actual boats were below his scale of
> > simulation. Now that we (soon) have river boats, we should remove this
> > bonus for land units and let the player handle it properly.
> 
> There may be another reason: avoidance of micromanagement.  If units
> can be sped up by moving triremes on rivers, finding the optimal way
> of transporation will often require hard but tedious thinking and mouse
> clicking.  Perhaps Thue's ferryboat patch can be of use here?

Yes, I was thinking of that too.
 
> > Erik
> 
> --
> Reinier

Erik