[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Ruleset Development - improvements

[Andrew Sutton <ansutton@xxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 04 December 2001 02:11 pm, Ben Webb wrote:

> > Or just to one continent, but you may not know about some cities they
> > are on same continent, may you?
>
>       An additional problem/feature is that you (the client) may think
> that you control two islands, but (because of unexplored land connecting
> the two land areas) they are actually just one island. The server knows
> this, of course, and thus the effect of a continent-specific improvement
> will be different for the server and client.

maybe the right way to do this would be to make the server player conscious - 
maintain what information the player DOES know and calculate these 
differences accordingly. that would allow the server to treat a continuous 
landmass like separate islands if the player has not discovered as much.

andy