[Freeciv-Dev] Re: modpack in develpment: Mare Infinitus

[Ben Webb <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Jul 14, 2002 at 09:09:12PM -0400, Miguel Farah wrote:
> 2) There is ONE unit I definitely want to include in the modpack: a 
>    fishing factory ("farms" a 3x3 square sea area, extracting the
>    available food, and feeds it to the city it belongs to; this lets a
>    city grow much larger than its 21 squares will support).
> 
>    Unless I am severely mistaken, this one unit would require modifying
>    source code, which I am (I must confess) in no condition to do. I'll
>    require help from someone who can do it.

        A point of information: this sounds quite similar to the SMAC
Supply Crawler (although I believe this can only be used for farming
land squares). If this kind of ability is ever coded up, it would be
useful for a SMAC mode too.

        Ben
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