[Freeciv-Dev] Re: New River Generator

[Paul Zastoupil <paulz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 08:36:52PM +0200, Erik Sigra eloquently wrote:
> Hi,
> I have improved my river generation algorithm very much today. I think
> the rivers can't be made much better than this with the current
> terrain system. Now the rivers are much smarter. If they start at a
> sea corner, they no longer usually fow far away somewhere. That is
> because they now prefer to flow away from mountains and hills, and
> flow towards oceans, rivers and swamps, as you can see on these
> pictures:

I really like it.  

This is nitpicking, but I think it would be nice to have rivers have a
higher chance of starting in the hills and mountains rather than in
random plains locations.  This seems more geographically interesting.

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Paul Zastoupil