[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Artillery and sea units (PR#1476)

[Thanasis Kinias <tkinias@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

scripsit Raahul Kumar:
> 
> --- Tony Stuckey <stuckey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 02:51:27PM -0700, Thanasis Kinias wrote:
> > > You mention the problem of building destroyers or cruisers without
> > > steel; what about the very real problem of trying to build a
> > > pre-ironclad fleet without trees?  Historically, access to extensive
> > > forests was a prerequisite to building a fleet, but Freeciv has no
> > > mechanism for representing dependencies on specific terrain or
> > > resources, and I'm not certain that adding such things would be
> > > advisable.
> > 
> >     Advisable or not, I think Civ3 does this.
> 
> Freeciv does also. Freeciv uses spec_gate, and terr_gate, in the buildings
> ruleset(Offshore platform). This permits the building of Offshore platforms
> only when sea terrain is in the city radius.
> 
> It would be trivial to extend this to cover units.ruleset. Assuming the AC
> gen-impr patch ever makes it to CVS, and I finally get my Civ 3 CD, I will
> probaby do it.

The issue, IMHO, is not whether it is technically feasible, but at what
point to stop pursuing more `realism'.  There are many strategic
resources we don't track:  rubber, uranium, manganese.  For goodness'
sake, we don't worry about oil even.  There's nothing to prevent me from
building a hundred each of Armor, Battleships, and Stealth Bombers,
without having a drop of petroleum to run them on.  Imagine how the game
would be unbalanced, though, if we were to require (for example) one Oil
resource for every twenty oil-dependent units.

-- 
Thanasis Kinias
Web Developer, Information Technology
Graduate Student, Department of History
Arizona State University
Tempe, Arizona, U.S.A.

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