[Freeciv-Dev] Re: civ 3 impressions

["Per I. Mathisen" <Per.Inge.Mathisen@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> My thought on this is that you should be able to call up a map of your
> civilization (or use the main map somehow...) and use a sort of "editor"
> on it.  This would be similar to a map-creator's editor, but much less
> powerful.  The edits you can do to this map would be limited to the
> functions that a worker/settler/engineer/former (call it what you like)
> can perform, given your current level of technology.
>
> Your changes to the map would be the instructions to your workers.

If you do _that_, why not mostly dispense with workers? For example, some
buildings (Marketplace, Superhighways, King Richard's, etc) could give
"build points", and then a key allows you to use those build points on the
main map to construct roads and irrigation and stuff within a certain city
radius (or an advisor might do this for you). Then you can have workers
to build fortresses and roads outside that city range.

Less micromanagement.

Yours,
Per

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