[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#14969) Ressource specials are no longer modified when a terrain is transformed

["Mike Kaufman" <kaufman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=14969 >

On Sun, Dec 25, 2005 at 11:09:05AM -0800, Jason Short wrote:
> 
> This patch implements #5.  Resources now have no effect on terrains that 
> they aren't allowed on.  So if you have plains/wheat and you mine it to 
> forest, you lose the wheat.  But if you irrigate back to plains, you'll 
> get the wheat back.

this sounds like an awful idea. you're making the contents of a tile depend
on the history of the tile. This is bad. You shouldn't have to remember
(and neither should a savegame) what _used_ to be on a tile. I am much more
inclined to change the special to one that's allowed on the new terrain.
Anybody who is terraforming a tile with a special deserves a random
selection of a new special. If the player wants to spend dozens of turns
reterraforming in an attempt to get the resource he wants, more power to
him. This idea is overcomplex. 

-mike