[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Idea: Nation Provinces.

[Andrew McGuinness <cogers@xxxxxxxxx>]

I kind of like this idea.  It has the potential that you can turn over a
part of your empire to some sort of AI control, perhaps with a specified
goal, and pay attention to the difficult bits.

I'm not sure about the necessity for excluding the capital - I can think
of one large country that does this, but not any others, and I don't
really see the advantage (in game terms at least).

The data structures for storing frontiers - and algorithms for determining
what squares are within them - are going to be a lot of work, but one that
will definitely pay dividends in all sorts of ways, so I'm fully in
support of this being developed.

--- Martin Olveyra <molv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I want your opinion about
something that I have been thinking and
> beginning to
> work on. The idea comes because, unfailingly, once the game advances
> enough,
> the big number of cities that a player must control increases in a way
> that
> maintainance of them are the most time demanding and bored job.
> Please note that I am not included in the mailing list, so reply this
> message to
> all recipients. Suggestions are welcome.
> 
> I agree that if this idea is implemented, the mechanism of the game
> changes
> considerably, but, anyway, the definition of provinces are optional by
> the
> player. 
> Moreover, as my main worries are the city maintainance, as I said
> before,
> another possibility for this is to make the definition of provinces a
> client
> side only feature. But the possibilities that I enumerate below are very
> interesting to set aside them.
> 
>                       Nation Provinces
>  ---------------------------------------------------
> 1 - Provinces unifies a group of cities. Basically, it is a method that
> reduces the time of maintenance when a nation begins to have a lot of
> cities. However, this also leads to very interesting features.
> 
> 2 - Each player can specify (or change in any moment) the frontier of 
> a province, and each city enclosed inside this border becomes a part 
> of this province, with the condition that just one of them has to have a
> courthouse. That city becomes the capital city of the province.
> Only the capital city of a nation cannot becomes part of a
> province. If the specified border also enclosed this city, the program
> must
> exclude it and its radio automatically, so to assign this few tiles
> to a federal territory (or district).
> 
> 3 - In this way, a player is claiming a territory for him/herself. Any
> tile
> that belongs to this territory can be worked, even if doesn't belongs to
> the
> radio of a city.
> 
> 4 - Observ that the same group of tiles can be claimed by two or more
> players. This can happen in the real life, so it is a game new feature
> rather than a problem. A tile occuped by a ground military unit can be
> worked only by the player which that unit belongs to. However, if this
> tile 
> is part of the radio of a city, the original rules apply. As a
> consecuence,
> in order to securely control a far tile, it must be used the military
> force
> or diplomatic agreements. In the last case, units cannot enter foreign
> territory without the permission of its owner.
> 
> 5 - The eventual province client dialog must include the following
> information and actions:
>       a) A list of cities that belongs to the province.
>       b) Inhabitant size (the sum of cities sizes).
>       c) Total Population (the sum of cities populations).
>       d) Total food, shield, trade, gold, luxury, science.
>       e) Information about improvements and wonders in the cities.
>       g) Information about eventual province improvements, this is, not
>          inside a city.
>       f) Actual province productions. This productions are those produced
>          inside each city, plus the eventual productions due to the
>          existence of adecuate infrastructure outside the cities
>                (province improvements).
>       g) Because the total shields are shared between the cities and country
>                 infrastructure, for each province production must be a
> priority
>           index, that determines the fraction of the total shields that
>           must be redirected to that production.
>       h) A province map, in order to select worked tiles and country
>           improvements sites.
> 
> 
> 
> 


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Andrew McGuinness                Luton, UK
andrew_mcguinness@xxxxxxxxxxx

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