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

[Raimar Falke <rf13@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 03:36:01PM -0500, Anthony J. Stuckey wrote:
> 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.

Possible since textyear isn't this common.

>       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.

startyear and endyear are probably the only numbers which isn't
converted to turns internally.

        Raiamr

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