[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#6624) Disband city cleanup

["Jason Short" <jdorje@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Per I. Mathisen wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Oct 2003, Jason Short wrote:
> 
>>[per - Fri Oct 24 12:55:46 2003]:
>>
>>>This cleans up the disband_city() function. The text message was
>>>misleading, and I strongly disliked the "save our units" behaviour, which
>>>teleported all supported units off the map and into our closest
>>>neighbouring city.
>>
>>But the new behavior is to disband most of the supported units, right?
> 
> 
> s/most/all/
> 
> Yes.

Except for ones that happen to be in other cities; they'll be 
transferred to that city.  I think.

>>That's not so good either...
> 
> Why? It is simple, predictible and intuitive.

I can imagine most players would prefer not to lose their units.  It 
would be easy enough to simply reassign support to the nearest owned city.

jason