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

["Mike Kaufman" <kaufman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 03:07:41PM -0700, Jason Short wrote:
> 
> [glip - Fri Sep 19 11:03:00 2003]:
> 
> > > - 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.
> 
> That would be possible, but would keep the current bug.  It would still
> be possible to get barbarians on the poles (a rediculous proposition)
> since the poles aren't all ARCTIC.
> 
> We could perhaps make both ARCTIC and TUNDRA like this.
> 
> There is a similar problem with hut placement.  Seems to me the logic
> should be identical for both.  So which is it to be?

I don't like special checks like this because maybe I want to play with an
all arctic/tundra map. Are barbarians then screwed?

-mike