[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Idea/suggestion: Different heights

[Alan Schmitt <alan.schmitt@xxxxxxxx>]

* Mike Kaufman (kaufman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> The line-of-sight is interesting, and can perhaps be taken care of with
> judicious use of fog-of-war: i.e. if a unit has a vision radius of two, but
> a hill is adjacent, then the unit the tile on the far side of the hill
> would be fogged despite the the vision range.

Civ 3 uses such a line of sight thing: you see much farther on a
mountain (but you don't see behind mountains) than in the plains. It
leads to interesting things in the exploration phase of the game, where
one tries to hop from mountain to mountain.

Alan

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