[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#9818) Inland lakes and borders

["Mike Kaufman" <kaufman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=9818 >

On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 09:16:45AM -0700, Jason Short wrote:
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> <URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=9818 >
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> I again suggest my previous idea for continents.
> 
> - Continents are assigned by mapgen.  Continents do not respect land/sea 
> boundaries.  Continent numbers never change.  Continents may even be 
> named (clicking on the tile shows the continent).
> 
> - AI code that wants to look at land/sea boundaries will have its own 
> internal data.
> 
> In this case the inland lake gets assigned to the same continent as the 
> land surrounding it.  Of course the algorithm may be the same but to 
> logic is moved to mapgen.
> 
> I only mention it again because nobody had any comments last time I did so.
 
I'm not an immediate fan of the idea, but out of curiosity, how would
continent numbers be assigned?

I don't like the idea of the AI having yet more maps and taking up yet more
memory. This seems pointless.

-mike