[Freeciv-Dev] Re: [PATCH] bugfix for wrapping problem

[Trent Piepho <xyzzy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 25 Aug 2001, Reinier Post wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 03:11:17PM -0700, Trent Piepho wrote:
> 
> > I imagine that if you make smaller tiles the default, so that wrapping 
> > happens
> > often, you would get gamers complaining.  They would say, "It looked like my
> > enemy had 20 knights surrounding me, but really it was 10 knights on one 
> > side
> > and the other 10 were illusions!  That's not fair, how am I supposed to know
> > what is real and what is a copy?"
> 
> Huh??  Can you give an example how this could arise?

A map with width 20, client window width of 25.  You have a city at x=10.  The
enemy has units at x=0.  They will show up again at x=20, on both sides of
your city.  Except some will move around and disappear when you attack them,
and others will not update.  Except when you move the map, then they will
magically update.  I think this should be called a "bug".

> > I would also like to point out that gamers don't write clients, Vasco and I
> > do/did.
> 
> I get the feeling that the above paragraph is ample proof.
> Please prove me wrong.

Proof of what?