[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#2641) islands from the client's point of view

["Jason Short via RT" <rt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mike Kaufman via RT wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 08:00:25PM -0800, Jason Short via RT wrote:
> 
> 
>>Err, so an island-wide affect only affects that player's posessions on 
>>that island?
> 
> 
> that is correct.
>  
> 
>>I remember having this discussion before, but don't remember an outcome. 
>>  It seems we could have three variants: affects everyone, affects you, 
>>affects everyone but you.
> 
> 
> There are more than three variants.
> 
> I remember that discussion too. Other people were having it. The outcome
> was irrelevant (sorry). The people who mattered at the time (that being Ben
> and I) had already decided on the above because of the problems that arise
> exactly as you describe. I believe that I told people so, but they thought
> about all the cool stuff that could be done without any worry of the
> practicalities.

None of these problems exist under SPOV.  Although I'm sure there are 
many other potential problems.

SPOV has always been my favorite.  But the people who like PPOV seem to 
have much stronger opinions...

jason