[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#10835) Trieme navigation

["Ed Earl Ross" <edearl@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=10835 >

Christian Knoke wrote:

><URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=10835 >
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>On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 06:08:43PM -0800, Ed Earl Ross wrote:
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>>It is not possible to lead a Trieme into the ocean with  the mouse using 
>>the Go command. At first this confused me, until I leaned the arrow keys 
>>would move into the ocean.  A one-time information pop-up telling to use 
>>the arrow keys would be helpful.
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>The goto does not work because the there is a risk to loose the Trireme on
>high seas. Maybe we can issue a message for this; a popup is probably not
>what we want.
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>Maybe a hint in the help for trireme, that if goto doesn't work, cursor keys
>can be used on own risk.
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Excellent, better, thanks.

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>>It should be possible to move a trieme one grid square into open ocean, 
>>but not two or more. Usually, a person wants to move back to land, but 
>>allow one to move further from land after moving one grid 
>>away--stupidity should be fatal.
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>If you consider the measurement of tiles and map, the current rule 'contact
>with land' is both nearer to reality and game effect.
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Reality is best.

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>>When one sees a foreign border, but cannot see the foreign land, with a 
>>mouse it is not possible to lead a Trieme to the foreign land--it should 
>>be possible.
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>Note, that borders can be far away from the coast - depending on option
>setting.
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>There is one case where the current implementation is limited (- I think,
>not tested recently). This is when you know for sure there is reachable
>coast, but the goto won't make it there, because the tiles between are
>unknown (black).
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Limited IMO.

I'm a newbie to freeciv, though once a long time ago worked in Software 
QA. Hope to help.

Need to tune my manners, get accustomed to the freeciv user-interface 
philosophy, and not try to control the design--a longtime professional 
personal-habit.


>Christian
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Thanks.