[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#6134) Telling bomber to fly home (Shift-G) cores.

["Jason Short" <jshort@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 12 Sep 2003, Per I. Mathisen wrote:

>
> On Fri, 12 Sep 2003, Gregory Berkolaiko wrote:
> > On Fri, 12 Sep 2003, Per I. Mathisen wrote:
> > > On the other hand, somewhat off topic, I'd much rather like planes to
> > > always come safely home when they are done flying, and instead reduce
> > > their movement a bit. This reduces the tedious micromanagement of keeping
> > > track of how many movement points it has left at any time and flying it
> > > safely into a city if we can't go back home.
> >
> > The devil is in the detail. Which city do they return to?
>
> They would always return to current homecity.

The implementation should be as in Civ3.  They may return to a city,
airbase, or carrier.

> > Will we abolish fuel?
>
> Yes.
>
> However, I like Thomas' idea of restricting aircraft movement so that they
> _cannot_ move out of refuel range.

This should be a client option?

jason