[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Ruleset Development - improvements

[Ben Webb <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Andrew Sutton wrote:

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

        That would be an ideal solution. Either that, or remove 
island-specific effects entirely (they're not used in the Freeciv or CivII 
rulesets IIRC anyway) although this is a more restrictive solution, of 
course. Personally, I'm happy to leave it the way it is for the time 
being. ;)

        Ben
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