[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Sailing on Rivers

[Thue <thue@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 25 Aug 2000 09:10:31 Erik Sigra wrote:
> 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.

The ferryboats are going to be nice, but not perfect. To limit the amount of
calculations needed they will not calculate every possibility exaustively. 
Because
of that I don't think they will be practical for small gotos on the same
continent, as you suggest.

(nothing I would like more than making them perfect, but I think More has some
work to do before we can affort that CPU wise...)

-Thue