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

[Ben Webb <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Jörg Zuther wrote:

> 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.

        Well, this is the problem that was discussed with regard to 
generalised improvements. Sure, you can group the cities (or units) this 
way, but it won't necessarily be consistent with which cities are being 
affected by a Wonder, because the grouping uses the client's continents 
numbers, while the Wonder effect uses the server's idea. In essence this 
means that if two islands on your map are actually connected by a piece of 
land that you haven't discovered yet, then the server will treat them as a 
single island, and apply the Wonder effect appropriately. (IIRC, the 
result of this discussion was that the server should really use the same 
continent system as the client - after all, if you "think" that you have 
two separate islands, surely any Wonder effect should apply only to that 
territory that you "think" it should do, and shouldn't be able to take 
advantage of the not-yet-discovered land bridge.)

        Ben
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