[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#15169) cannot claim my own island - cannot found cities in enemy borders

["Per I. Mathisen" <per@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=15169 >

On Tue, 28 Feb 2006, Jason Short wrote:
> >>But still, there should IMHO be _some_ way of stealing territory from
> >>another player in wartime.
> >
> >
> > Just take out the border source that claims the tile.
>
> The border source is across the ocean.It would mean I have to do a
> coastal invasion to claim tiles that are on _my_ island.

As of my most recent commit related to borders, they no longer expand over
oceans. So there could be no scenario in which you would need a coastal
invasion.

I am not totally against adding a "steal borders" feature, I just do not
see the big need, nor do I see a nice way of implementing it.

  - Per