[Freeciv-Dev] Re: [Patch] turn_founded

[Raimar Falke <hawk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 12:31:38PM +0100, Per I. Mathisen wrote:
> 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.

In general: ack.

Note that there is already an "original" field in struct city. There
may be problems (info leakage) if this field or the founder is sent to
the client.

        Raimar

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