[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#13334) [Patch] Unit class structure with move parameters

["Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa" <vasc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=13334 >

On Sun, 26 Jun 2005, Marko Lindqvist wrote:

> <URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=13334 >
>
>   What if I want one wonder that increases sea unit speed (Magellan),
> one that increases air unit speed...
>   Of course it boils down to amount of freedom you later mentioned.

Having user defined unit classes is a good idea, in fact I think we had
discussed before this should eventually go in (if it didn't already?)

> > I'm wondering: how much freedom do we give the ruleset designers (keeping
> > in mind that the more freedom the more complicated the coding),
>
>   More general code is not always more complicated, it may avoid some
> unnecessary special case handling.

Yes.

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Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa @ Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa