[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Idea/suggestion: Different city radii

[Raimar Falke <hawk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 10:51:28PM +0100, Adolf J. Winterer wrote:
> Idea/Suggestion:
> Cities should have different sizes.
> 
> Description:
> A small city should have a small radius only,
> while big cities should have a large radius.
> So with growing size a city gains more usable
> land (thus more econmic power) and the city
> controls more area and can look farther into
> the surroundings.
> 
> Realistic aspect:
> Just look a small vs. large cities and the
> respective sizes/areas.
> 
> How to do it:
> There should be three or four sizes for cities.
> The smallest (villages, of sizes 1 to 4) could
> have only 5 squares. The numbers and shapes are
> just for illustration.
>      X
>    X X X
>      X
> Medium size cities (small towns, of sizes 4 to 10)
> could have 12 squares.

>      X X
>    X X X X
>    X X X X
>      X X

This doesn't look ok.

> Larger cities (let's call them cities, of sizes
> 11 to 18) could have 21 squares.
>     X X X
>   X X X X X
>   X X X X X
>   X X X X X
>     X X X
> The largest cities (metropolis, of size 19 and
> above) could have 40 squares.
>     X X X X
>     X X X X
>   X X X X X X
>   X X X X X X
>   X X X X X X
>   X X X X X X
>     X X X X
>     X X X X

This is also not ok.

> The city dialog certainly needs adjustments
> to reflect these changes.

AFAIK there was a consensus that such a feature would be nice and
accepted.

Now only one have to start coding it (which will start with a lot of
cleanups to make the code ready).

        Raimar

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