[Freeciv-Dev] Re: units.ruleset docu patch 2

[Jason Short <vze2zq63@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Raahul Kumar wrote:
> --- Reinier Post <rp@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 05:36:03PM -0800, Raahul Kumar wrote:
> >
> >
> > > This is implemented in a very annoying way. Phalanx obsolete warriors, but
> > > Pikemen do not. Since Pikemen obsolete phalanx, and phalanx obsolete
> > warriors, gaining feudalism should result in the removal of warriors. This 
> > really annoys me!
> > Yes.  What has been discussed before (but I can't find it in the archives) is
> > the case where you can build Pikemen, but uyou do not have the tech for 
> > Phalanx.  It was argued that in this case, your Warriors should not be 
> > upgradeable to Pikemen.
> I'm not quite clear on what the argument could possibly be. I see no possible
> reason to build warriors over pikemen. 
That's not the argument, as I understand it.

The argument is that since you haven't researched phalanx, there is no 
upgrade path from warriors to pikemen.  So although you would never want 
to build warriors anymore, they're not really "obsolete" since this 
implies "upgradeable".
I'd argue that they should be made "obsolete" so that they cannot be 
built anymore, but not be upgradeable since there is no upgrade path. 
But this is probably not worth the effort.
jason