[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#6183) barbarians on the poles

["rwetmore@xxxxxxxxxxxx" <rwetmore@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The poles are by definition the first 2 continents, if they are defined as
special/separate continents.

You probably want to check for separate poles and the continent number as
is done in some map.c routines, rather than play heuristics with terrain
types that may be used in arbitrary locations, not just polar continents.

This is probably more in keeping with the concept or rationale for doing
this which surprisingly no one seems to really understand or perhaps
consider important.

Cheers,
RossW
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Gregory Berkolaiko wrote:
> Resending the bounced mail.
> 
> On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, Jason Short wrote:
> 
>>In barbarians.c there is code to prevent barbarian uprisings on the 
>>poles.  But this code is buggy: you won't get barbarians on the y==0 or 
>>y==map.ysize-1 line but you can still get them on the y==1 and 
>>y==map.ysize-2 line.
>>
>>Moreover, this code makes assumptions about the terrain - namely, that 
>>the poles exist and that they are at these locations.  Under 
>>gen-topologies this isn't necessarily true, and should be up to the 
>>mapgen code in any case.
>>
>>Two alternatives:
>>
>>- Remove this restriction, and let barbarians be summoned anywhere.
>>
>>- Let mapgen determine what's polar and what's not.
> 
> 
> Can we instead not have barbarian uprising on a certain type of terrain, 
> like T_ARCTIC ?  Because nobody leaves there.
> 
> G.