[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#9324) startunits and sea units

["Genevieve Gracian" <ggracian@xxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=9324 >

On Fri, 9 Jul 2004 10:30:48 -0700
"Jason Short" <jdorje@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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> <URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=9324 >
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> Startunits will put sea units on the land.  Sometimes they can be 
> totally landlocked, and will never be able to move.
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> Fixing this seems very tricky.  Currently all starting positions are put 
> on land.  We're not guaranteed to have a sea position within the 
> dispersion radius.  However if sea units are present there's a good 
> chance we'd have enough of them to transport all starting land units. 
> In that case a starting position could be placed on the ocean, and the 
> land unit(s) could be put inside the sea unit(s).  But this may be very 
> hard, because the starting positions may be generated before the server 
> option is even set (I think).

If the starting position is in high sea and too far from the shore that
could make a very short game for the poor player. I don't know if that
can happen with a trireme but I recently had a start where one settler
was in unsafe terrain and could not reach safe location
(http://ggracian.free.fr/starting_position.png).

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> In the short term I think the only viable solution is to remove the sea 
> unit roles from the possible starting units.  This doesn't prevent other 
> sea units from being given the other starting-unit roles, though.
> 
> See also PR#9309, PR#9310.
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> jason
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