[Freeciv-Dev] (PR#11118) Start positions at poles for topologies 3 & 7

["Jason Short" <jdorje@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11118 >

> [marko.lindqvist@xxxxxxxxxxx - Sun Nov 21 01:16:33 2004]:
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>   There seems to be often start positions located at pole(s). Are start 
> positions assigned just by continent size?
>   Attached screen shot shows how size=7, landmass=25, aifill=8, 
> topology=7  gave start position at both poles even though there is 
> habitable small/medium islands around.

I *thought* that the mapgen code recalculated continents while treating
arctic regions the same as ocean.  This should prevent just about all
polar start-position placement even without any other checks. Maybe this
uses the dangerous-terrain flag though in which case it wouldn't work
for civ1/civ2 rulesets.

jason