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

["Christian Knoke" <chrisk@xxxxxxxxx>]

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

On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 03:27:09PM -0800, Jason Short wrote:
> Per I. Mathisen wrote:
> > 
> > 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...

What is the problem? People put an engineer on a transporter and try to 'O'
transform - put cannot. Then they look into the help - section terrain,
subsection transforming and read, and find no reason why this won't work.

A better help is needed.

Christian

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