[Freeciv-Dev] Re: [PATCH] city_map_size fix and idea

[Raimar Falke <hawk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 09:54:05AM -0400, Ross W. Wetmore wrote:
> The movement system does not use Pythagorean distances, and the "size"
> of a city radius probably needs to be 

> more closely associated with the number of moves rather than an
> absolute distance.

Sounds very complicated.

> While generalizing the city size to one which has an arbitrary radius
> seems nice, I suspect that the myriad places where you need to do a fast 
> check to determine which of the [CITY_MAP_SIZE][CITY_MAP_SIZE] locations
> is valid might become tricky.

Currently I don't see a problem here.

> Also, I doubt whether city sizes will ever be more than 3 and even this 
> would be a difficult sell because of the incompatibility with stock CIV 
> rules. Note increasing the upper bound on a city's size/productivity has 
> impact on a lot of game balance aspects like the value of a marketplace.

For me the primary goal isn't to enable to code to has a changeable
CITY_SIZE but currently just code cleanup. "pcity->x + x +
CITY_MAP_SIZE/2" is just dead ugly. A transformation method would be
nice something with more a abstract numbering even better.

        Raimar

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