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

[Ben Webb <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 02:33:05PM +0100, Davide Pagnin wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-11-11 at 04:30, Mike Kaufman wrote:
> > Actually, I realized after I sent this, that island-wide effects (as
> > currently implemented) have less range than player-wide effects. What this
> > means is that if I build a improvement with island-wide range, Another
> > player's cities on the same island will NOT be affected by it. Other
> > players will only be affected by my global effects. I think this is the
> > right way to go about it and avoids all the nasty special cases.
> This is the actual situation. 

Indeed.

> But I feel that limiting the possibility that island-wide effect can
> effect other players too, isn't much of flexibility.

Well, it'd be fairly straightforward to add new effect ranges or flags,
but it sounds like it's rapidly becoming more complicated. So far we
have, if I'm keeping up, eight types of Island-range effect, depending on
whether they affect the true or perceived island, whether they
affect one player or all players, and whether they affect all tiles or
just city centres (this last is in current impr-gen).

> In the event we have, in the future, unit effects, I think that a
> 'neutron bomb' that can hit your city and destroy that city and kill

impr-gen has unit effects now, by the way, although unit attacks are
still hard-coded - i.e. you cannot give any unit a nuclear-type attack
in this way yet. There's no reason why the code couldn't be added
though.

        Ben
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