[Freeciv-Dev] Re: map wrap and a new barrier method. was: british isles

[Thue <thue@xxxxxxx>]

> Also, I don't know if this has been discussed before, but I think there is
> a lot of potential for maps that don't wrap, and I understand that
> building that into the code is pretty arduous. An alternative would be
> either a new terrain type or perhaps a new special. The terrain type would
> prevent movement to that tile.

As mentioned at
http://www.freeciv.org/lxr/source/freeciv_hackers_guide.txt?v=cvs#L202

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Note that if all the code that operate on x and y values used macros, it
would be very simple to convert these, to allow fx a flat world or a map
structure like in civ2 for isometric view.
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Purely coincidentially I have been replacing all parts of the code I have 
touched with flat-world compatible code for some time.

-Thue