[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Speeding Up Games

[Ben Webb <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 11:12:19PM +0200, Łukasz Rekucki wrote:
> On Thu, 1 May 2003, Vasco Alexandre Da Silva Costa wrote:
> > The good gameplay changes in SMAC IMHO were the diplomatic model, borders,
> > worklists, units display.
> 
> I liked the best that you could build cities on water. It was pure fun
> (after forcing the planetary council to rise ocean level) to watch all
> your enemies drown ;). I think that's the thing that should be added.

It's fairly trivial to allow oceanic cities. In fact, FreecivAC
(http://freecivac.sf.net/) allows this already. (It does borders too,
BTW.) The cities look a bit weird though - the graphics need some work. ;)

        Ben
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