[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#17617) unsafe terrains and continents

["Peter Schaefer" <peter.schaefer@xxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=17617 >

Shouldn't the small size of 1-tile continents (bordering to the pole)
be a natural impediment against placement of players there?

On 6/4/06, Jason Dorje Short <jdorje@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> <URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=17617 >
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>    /* Unsafe terrains separate continents, otherwise small areas of green
>     * near the poles could be populated by a civilization if that pole
>     * was part of a larger continent. */
>    assign_continent_numbers(TRUE);
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> The unsafe terrains that used to be glacier/arctic tiles would separate
> continents, so a small patch of green next to the pole would count as a
> 1-tile continent instead of a part of a larger continent.  Now that
> arctic is no longer unsafe, this no longer works and polar placements
> are much more common.
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> To fix this, we need to have real detection of polar locations.  The
> whole mapgen code could use some cleanup, but this fix is needed for 2.1.
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> The attached patch should do a passable job of preventing this.  It just
> sets a fixed distance from the pole that starting positions have to be.
>   In a few tests I ran this looks fine.  However it obviously needs some
> extensive testing.
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> -jason
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