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

["Raimar Falke" <i-freeciv-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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

On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 10:14:35AM -0800, 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.

I think that the new behaviour is ok since it reflects the real
world. Other games also have this or similar behaviour.

        Raimar

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