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

["Jason Short" <jdorje@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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

> [rwetmore@xxxxxxxxxxxx - Mon Mar 08 17:04:28 2004]:
> 
> 
> 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.

Doing that for global warming/nuclear winter is fine.  But how can we
use a lookup table for the original map generation?

jason