[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#13427) Border size

[Peter Schaefer <peter.schaefer@xxxxxxxxx>]

Well, I have never seen the borders of e.g. Canada expand or collapse
just because Canada "raised the luxury rate" e.g. for centennial
celebrations.

Apart from being unrealistic, changing borders will leave units
suddenly on enemy territory, which causes no end of additional
problems.

I still do like your idea of happiness or something else(city size?)
affecting claiming land first by increasing distance.

On 7/10/05, oberon <oberon@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Borders couldn't be static, they would have to be dynamic. So you can
> raise your luxury rate to increase borders and try to convert nearby
> cities (see bread and circus for a historical lesson in how maintainable
> this is, however), but if you drop the rate, your borders would collapse.
> 
> This idea will make more sense to someone who has played a lot of Civ3, of
> course. I'm not sure if any of the devs have.
> 
> --oberon
> 
> On Sat, 9 Jul 2005, Peter Schaefer wrote:
> 
> > On 7/9/05, oberon <oberon@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > <URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=13427 >
> > >
> > > First, I'd like to apologize that this isn't attached to the relevant
> > > thread. Unfortunately, I lack an RT account and have no idea how to do
> > > this otherwise.
> >
> > Joining the freeciv-dev mailing list is one way to give feedback to bugs.
> > It seems borders are moving towards being more static, that is claimed
> > lands stays claimed.
> > There is still room for your idea of happiness, but your idea leaves
> > room for cheating if borders are static by raising luxury rate
> >
> 
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