[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#12416) Ocean to land

["Jason Short" <jdorje@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=12416 >

Per I. Mathisen wrote:
> <URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=12416 >
> 
> We get these questions all the time. People just don't "get" the "you need
> three adjacent land to transform" thing. It is just not intuitive. I find
> this rule rather unnecessary. So my suggestion is to waive this
> requirement for the default ruleset.

Without that rule it is advantageous to connect almost all islands I 
think.  Land bridges are quite useful.  Whether or not we change this 
rule we need better error messages when trying to convert terrain.

For the default ruleset we could disable this transformation entirely...

-jason