[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#14652) Patch proposal: resources cleanup

["Jason Short" <jdorje@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=14652 >

William Allen Simpson wrote:
> <URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=14652 >
> 
> Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa wrote:
> 
>>Here are some more names: Trait, Aspect, Property, Attribute, etc.
>>
>>Although I do prefer Resources.
>>I also seem to remember Civilization III and Master of Magic use that name.
>>
> 
> Feature.  As in "a feature of the landscape."

Not intuitive enough when taken out of context.

> Amazingly enough, even hills have become "features" in Civ4, so that
> terrain now is listed as "Gems/Jungle/Hills/Grassland",
> "Forest/Hills/Plains", etc.

Seems a logical extension.  SMAC had "properties"...I don't remember 
exactly what the options were but they were trinary not binary, so 
fundamentally different from the binary "specials" we have now.

-jason