[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Islands in the city report

[Jörg Zuther <zuther.joerg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 14 Jan 2002 22:46:09 +0000 (GMT), Ben Webb wrote:
> > >    - there should be a column showing the continent/island the city is on.
> > Question is if we want people to know it. It can then help them in exploring
> > the right pieces of land and just give them knowledge they wouldn't 
> > otherwise
> > know. See appropriate discussion near generalized buildings patch.
> 
>         I don't think this is an issue, since unless you're planning to
> modify the protocol, the client and server have different ideas of which
> islands units are on anyway. Displaying the client's information in a
> dialog won't help you to cheat in any way; the only problem is that the
> islands are stored only as numbers rather than names, so this display
> wouldn't be very pretty. (Sure, you could provide some facility to name
> your islands, but a) is it really worth it? and b) you'd have to use
> attributes or similar to ensure this kind of thing survives through a
> savegame.)

Of course, the city report shows you only information about your own
cities. IMHO, it would be no problem to represent the different islands/
continents in the display as different numbers. I would need this
information
only for a single purpose: to be capable of grouping all of my cities
that are on the same continent/island. This is useful when you have
built a wonder that affects all cities on a continent. Furthermore,
it facilitates gathering information about available units for
attack/defense,
if you have a complete railroad net on your island/continent.

Nice idea of naming the islands and continents. (Reminds me of AC where
you can name landmarks on the map.)
a) Well, I think if this kind of information
   would be available in the city overview, then all people that use
this
   information at least would find it nice to be able to name islands
and
   continents. It's not necessary, of course.
b) One has to work out a concept for this first, I think. Should these
names
   also be shown on the client map? Can you learn about the names other
   players have for the same islands? etc.

 ,,
Jorg