[Freeciv-Dev] Re: call for a fix for 903 and 1113 (horse in ocean)

[Reinier Post <rp@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 12:23:04AM +0100, Christian Knoke wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 12:28:04PM -0600, Mike Kaufman wrote:
> > If any brave soul is willing to submit a fix for the horse in ocean bug,
> > I will surely look at it.
> > 
> > Raimar presented three solutions for this:
> > 
> > > It looks like this is indeed a case the code doesn't handle. So what
> > > should happen?
> > > 1) destory the horsemen
> > > 2) give the horsemen to the new owner
> > > 3) teleport the horsemen to the nearest city of the owner
> > 
> > I can't find much (any?) discussion about this. I think that 2 or 3 is
> > best, and I believe number 3 is what happens if a city is conquered, so
> > that might be easiest.
> 
> 3 is most logical ;) If 2 were intended, the user can frist
> transfer horse and then the ship.
> 
> Christian

I think 3 is unnatural, althoigh Civ II uses it too.  2 is what happens
when you give away cities.  My vote for 2.

BTW I think the lack of discussion means 'whoever makes a patch gets
to decide'.

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Reinier