[Freeciv-Dev] Re: FreecivAC: generalised calendars (PR#1871)

["Anthony J. Stuckey" <astuckey@xxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 10:31:07PM +0200, Raimar Falke wrote:
> IMHO we should try to achieve a state where turn is the primary time
> measurement.

        Yes.  Civ2 used different timescales for the different difficulty
levels.  It's already been mentioned that SMAC wants a different base date.
Other scenarios will certainly have other and more intricate needs.

> For this we need a way to convert turn to year. Both
> server and client must perform the same conversion.

        Or the server must tell the client.
        Also, it would greatly help parts of the AI to have some idea of turns
remaining until various events. (endgame, in particular)  So this should be
queryable with a turns_until_year() style function.

> However if this is
> implemented the transformation can be anything. From turn to year like
> now. Or from turn to month (with a starting year). Or from turn
> Chinese moon calendar. And so on. Also for post analyses it would be
> nice if another program can also do this conversion.
> 
> However if we want to keep the current conversion (game_next_year) we
> have to keep state (the spaceshipparts number). Also we have to ensure
> that this data is also available at the client. And maybe to analyse
> programs.