[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Preparations for other AIs and humans

[Raimar Falke <hawk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 04:29:39PM +0200, Marko Lindqvist wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Raimar Falke wrote:
> 
> > As I mentioned in another email it is sometimes necessary to have more
> > information than the client currently knows/remembers. Example is the
> > auto-build-city thing: after you gave it some constraints it will
> > search a place. However if the surrounding areas was explorerd but is
> > now fogged the code has currently now way of finding the best possible
> > square. There need to be some kind of history.
> 
>  Are you saying that client does not remember what is at fogged tile?
> This can't be true, since it still draws those tiles correctly.

Yes you are correct.

>  But maybe you want to know how long time has elapsed since tile was last
> seen. This information is currently missing from client (and even from
> server).

For auto-build-city this isn't necessary but maybe for others.

        Raimar

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