[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#7399) RiverBoats

["Per I. Mathisen" <per@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=7399 >

On Sun, 8 Feb 2004, Guest wrote:
> > > Appachment Adds option riverboats, meaning that some Boat types has the
> > > flag "RiverBoat", which enables it to travel along rivers. Only
> > > Triremes, Caravels, destroyers and transports are set to riverboats in
> > > the default ruleset. - This is not solely by divine decree, rather more
> > > or less random.

The last time this came up, we pretty much decided this option would
complicate the rules too much. We already have heaps of problems making
the transportation code sane, and been through quite a lot of work making
the attack code sane, and both will be much more difficult to work with
once we lose the assumption that sailing units can only be in an ocean or
a city (cities have lots of exceptions anyway).

The experiences from the allied transport patch, which at first sight
seemed quite simple but caused us no end of subtle bugs for nearly a year
after, makes me quite cautious about accepting this patch.

I can be convinced otherwise, though.

  - Per