[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#7584) generalizing terrain in mapgen

["rwetmore@xxxxxxxxxxxx" <rwetmore@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=7584 >


Global warming pushed terrain away from the wetness norm, so wet gets
wetter and dry gets drier.

But in general you want a lookup table that goes in the rulesets that
has the same sort of terrain target states as any of the conversions.
There might be other effects such as nuclear winter or plague (kills
vegetation and/or specials) that one might also add some day.

Doing this sort of thing by hard-coded algorithm is too restrictive
and may be too expensive compared to a cached lookup. If you build a
cache, then might as well let the rulesets fill it in for complete
flexibility.

Cheers,
RossW
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Jason Short wrote:
> <URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=7584 >
> 
>>[remi - Sat Feb 28 19:47:40 2004]:> 
> 
>>In global warming, swamps are created. If you decrease wetness, this 
>>will change this behaviour.
> 
> 
> Indeed.  I think global warming should increase temperature, and also
> increase wetness.  Or perhaps just wetness of terrain that is near the
> ocean?
> 
> jason