[Freeciv-Dev] Re: [Wishlist] Wells (PR#1726)

[Christian Knoke <chrisk@xxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 11:09:13AM +0000, Per I. Mathisen wrote:
> On Sun, 14 Jul 2002, Christian Knoke wrote:
> > > > Idea:  Wells. It is possible to build irrigation starting at
> > > >        wells.
> 
> > Usually I play with a lot more rivers than default, but not here.
> > You need a lot of transform work (forest, mountains are in the way)
> > to get irrigation over there.
> 
> The map generators could create inland lakes. I don't like the idea of
> adding wells. You cannot get enough water up from a well to irrigate, not
> without advanced technology, and then in most cases you will just drain
> the supply. It is totally ahistorical.

Unfortunately your are right about the historic and realistic aspect :-(

Ok, so that's not so good, Al?

Lakes, hmm? Yes, let's do it with lakes! Lakes to be defined as one-tile
oceans randomly placed on bigger islands? Can we tweak the map generator
to create them?

> Yours
> Per

Christian

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