[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Ruleset Development - improvements

[Petr Baudis <pasky@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear diary, on Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 08:11:41PM CET, I got a letter,
where Ben Webb <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> told me, that...
> > > 3. Reveal cities that have "global" effects (in the same way that global 
> > >    wonders are currently revealed)
> > Those buildings should be _forced_ to be WoW probably. Or just all improvs
> > with global effects will be WoW. however I don't see the difference between
> > WoW and that improvement.
> 
>       The difference is that WoWs can only be built by one civ, and they 
> show up in the various report dialogs.
Well, if building's effect is global, what's the point of having it built
multiple times?

>                                        Although perhaps it would be easier 
> to remove the ruleset distinction between "buildings" and "wonders" 
> entirely; this would ease the introduction of CivIII-style "mini-wonders" 
> for example.
And make FreeCiv incompatible with CivI/II, wouldn't it?

> > However some effects aren't global to whole world, but still may apply 
> > to more civs.
> 
>       Example? I can't see any way of specifying such behaviour with 
> the current buildings.ruleset.
I was talking hypotetically ;-). Just to explain the sentence bellow.

> > 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.
I wanted to said exactly that.

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