[Freeciv-Dev] Re: SU planes

[Felix Ring <e9925202@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Reinier Post wrote:

> > Grzegorz Borowiak dijo/said:
> 
> > >I have another idea. Zeppelin. It would have move 6, defense 3 and attack
> > >0 and would have unlimited fuel. Purpose: scout, causing no unhappiness.
> 
> How can a zeppelin have defense > 0 ?  And how can it move so fast?

If attack is zero, and it should be, there can't be a defense! Have you
ever seen a Zeppelin flying? Compared to an Armor it moves like a snail.
You'd need an spy drone to reach that speed (which of course could be a
follow up)
btw, have you ever seen "Around the world in 80 days"? There you can see
that Zeppelins don't have unlimited fuel :-) 

 > 
> > >Overall, I think there are too few air units. And pity that AI don't use
> > >it...
> 
> No more than 1% of the games I've played reach the stage of flight.
> 
> > That is a COOL idea. I'd give it vision 4, so it'd be a good scout.
> > 
> > Of course, it poses a problem: it should be able to be in the same
> > square as an enemy land unit. Has this been implemented in the code?
> 
> Isn't this the same for all planes?

I don't think that an unarmed unit would want to fly over powerful enemy
units. Almost every unit can harm a Zeppelin (except a Phalanx, which
could only throw its sword)
And, how would the enemy unit beneath it attack the Zeppelin? I think
ignoring ZOC would be enough for a spy unit.

 > 
> Units of friendly nations can already share squares, but it is not a
> ruleset feature to allow this.  It would be similar to the 'ignore ZOC'
> feature.
> 
> -- 
> Reinier 
>