[Freeciv-Dev] Re: RFC: new implementation of island numbering

[Jason Dorje Short <vze49r5w@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mike Kaufman wrote:

> scenario: player A know that his city and B's city are on the same 
> continent. B doesn't know this. When the trade route is created, A
> gets less trade than B does. A solution which I think is fine is that a
> trade route will reveal the continent which the city is on. In that case,
> when the trade route is created, ther server will inform B that A's city is
> on the same continent. What should happen if neither know? Should they find
> out or does the server act as is they are on separate continents. I prefer
> the latter.
What "should" happen IMO is that when A makes a route to B in this case 
B is shown the actual path of the route, as seen by A.  IOW B should see 
what A would call the minimum path between the two cities.
In the final case, I would agree that the latter is better.  But if one 
of them does find out differently again the other should see the path.
Needless to say, this would not be fun (or elegant) to code.  So it's 
probably not such a good idea.
jason