[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#2499) Suggestion: Borders

["Ben Webb via RT" <rt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 04:49:34PM -0800, Guest via RT wrote:
> Implement ownership of squares. All squares within a distance, say 8 
> squares of a city is yours.  When several nation are within range of a 
> square the civ that has the nearest city or most cities in range of the 
> square (a compromise, I am not sure how) owns the square

See the FreecivAC (http://freecivac.sf.net/) borders patch, PR#1870.

> You migth vary the distance with technolegy level; there were no 
> borders in the stone age(distance 0), but more advanced civs' borders 
> extends longer from their cities.

Currently borders extend a fixed distance from cities, but there's no
reason why you can't do what you suggest. This sounds rather like the
Civ3 cultural effect of cities.

> The borders could also extend sligthly into the sea.

FreecivAC borders do just this, just like SMAC borders do.

        Ben
-- 
ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx           http://bellatrix.pcl.ox.ac.uk/~ben/
"It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data."
        - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle