[Freeciv-Dev] Re: [RFC][Patch] AI can fly v2 (fwd)

[Gregory Berkolaiko <Gregory.Berkolaiko@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 11 Apr 2002 per@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> On Thu, 11 Apr 2002 per@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > Observations:
> 
> I forgot to ask... do you plan on implementing carriers too? They are not
> very good at present, but in some rulesets they might (should!) be. The
> key variables to check is aircraft movement rate compared to ship movement
> rate, and aircraft attack power compared to ship defense power.
> 
> Also, carriers are mighty cute. Don't you think? ;-)

:)

You mean as drawn in the tilesets?  Never seen one :(

Actually, they are mighty expensive too and quite vulnerable.  So they 
should be built in coordination with a large fleet and sent on purposeful 
invasion task.  So I think there are too many prerequisites to think about 
it at the moment.

G.