[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#7277) veteran state lost on upgrade

["Jason Short" <jdorje@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=7277 >

Per I. Mathisen wrote:
> <URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=7277 >
> 
> On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, Christian Knoke wrote:
> 
>>CVS HEAD
>>
>>A veteran ironclad, upgraded to a destroyer, looses its veteran state.
> 
> 
> This is a feature of the veteran levels patch. Veteran level is reduced by
> one each upgrade. See
> http://www.freeciv.org/lxr/source/server/unittools.c#L1474. I was not
> aware that this changed existing behaviour.
> 
> Should previous behaviour be restored? This is a question for the design
> board in particular.

It should be restored or at least made a ruleset option.  This changes 
the behavior and breaks some compatability.

jason