[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#3771) Uproar display of cities

["ChrisK@xxxxxxxx" <ChrisK@xxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 02:00:24PM -0700, Jason Short wrote:
> 
> [ChrisK@xxxxxxxx - Sat Mar 22 21:43:37 2003]:
> 
> > CVS 22 MAR 2003 GTK 1
> > 
> > This is a longstanding one. Time to report.
> > 
> > The uproar display of enemy cities comes too late:
> > It is caused by a unit which occupies a tile the city is using,
> > thus preventing it from use, giving uproar. The lightning sign is not
> > shown when this happens, but only when another unit is moving in sight of
> > the city, *after* the city has fallen in uproar.
> 
> Hmm, after a closer look it seems that you should not see the uproar
> information of enemy cities at all in most cases.  This information is
> sent only in the full city packet and only by way of telling you about
> each and every citizen.  It's up to the client to then calculate the
> city's status.

Of course you shouldn't see the status of each and every citizen of an enemy
city.

But should you see the disorder state of a city?

- It used to be like this

- disorder is important for bribe cost and threat of anarchy

- some realism that you know a city is in disorder when you are near the
  city

So I think you should see it.

Christian

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