[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#10245) gen-movement

["Marko Lindqvist" <marko.lindqvist@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=10245 >

Per I. Mathisen wrote:

> Why? Are you thinking abot units that can move up rivers, can't move over
> mountains, and stuff like that? The current movement types are heavily
> used in the AI (and to much lesser extent in the server), and we should be
> careful not to generalize the server faster than we can improve the AI to
> match.

  Oh yes, I'll keep that in mind. My original idea was that we really 
should make some general functions to handle movement/transportation 
related rules, ie just code cleanup. But then I though that it could be 
nice to make those generalizations visible to user as well, through 
rulesets. Obviously we have to be careful when deciding what 
generalizations we let out to ruleset level (not only for AI's sake).
  All, except game.ruleset, our rulesets started out as hardcoded 
structure arrays inside executable. I'd like to create such an array for 
movement types. Then we can, over time, change current hardcoded 
properties into references to hardcoded values inside that struct array. 
Once all callers are fixed, we are free to change those values.



  - Caz