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

["Jason Short" <jshort@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 21 Sep 2003, Per I. Mathisen wrote:

>
> On Sat, 20 Sep 2003, John Wheeler wrote:
> > (Which reminds me, can barbarians be created within one's border? I
> > would prefer that they not be.)
>
> Barbarians are generally created from the ocean. Land barbarians do not
> seem to work very well. Could someone have a look at this, and make land
> barbarians start uprisings from outside borders (only)?

The barbarian creation code does not distinguish between land and sea
barbarians.  It just picks a random position and goes from there.  Usually
this position is in the ocean.

> > Of course, finding an advanced tribe in the middle of a glacier can be
> > annoying (or anywhere you can't access a square with at least 2
> > food). IIRC, what Civ2 did was that advanced tribes could only be found
> > on squares that will produce at least 2 food as a city, otherwise
> > settlers were found.
>
> Freeciv also does this. You find a settler ("nomad") when there is either
> not enough space or too bad tile to build a city.

Are you sure?  It checks can_build_city_at_tile (or whatever) but doesn't
ever look at the terrain of the tile.

jason