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

["Gregory Berkolaiko" <Gregory.Berkolaiko@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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

On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Jason Short wrote:

> 1 Better behavior of continent-wide effects.  Small islands may be a 
> part of a larger continent rather than their own continent.  Building 
> land bridges to increase continent effects is no longer possible. 
> Cities in the ocean may have different continents rather than one huge 
> continent.
> 
> 2 More realistic behavior of Earth scenarios.  It is possible to use the 
> "real" continents.
> 
> 3 Possibility to name continents.
> 
> #1 is the real benefit.  2 and 3 are just nice side effects.

That's for sure.

From a practical point of view it's easier to kill the continent-wide 
effects than to do some complicated clustering code on archipelagos.