[Freeciv-Dev] Re: [Patch] turn_founded

["Per I. Mathisen" <Per.Inge.Mathisen@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 4 Mar 2002, Jason Short wrote:
> >>>try to buy something. Solved by introducing a turn_founded field in
> >>>struct city.

How about reseting turn_founded whenever the city is conquered by
somebody? That way, the conqueror gets the city last in his city view (as
I think is proper), and the field can be used to check how long you have
had that city. This latter is useful for some civ3-like rebellion stuff
that shouldn't affect recently acquired "holdings", as sometimes happened
in civ3 to may great dismay.

The ideal solution is three fields

        founder = player_no
        turn_founded = some int
        turn_lastconquered = some int

and if (founder==current_player->player_no) use turn_founded, otherwise
use turn_lastconquered. The "founder" field could be presented in the city
view for flavour, and it coul probably be useful for something else some
day, too.

Yours,
Per

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