[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#13337) [Patch] Read native terrains from ruleset

["Marko Lindqvist" <cazfi74@xxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=13337 >

On 7/8/06, Jason Dorje Short <jdorje@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> How do the air, missile, and nuclear classes differ here?  How long
> until we can merge them?

 Nuclear class should be removed (merged to missile). Unlike other air
units, missiles can be transported by MissileCarrier (#18347)

> Would it be better to have a non-native flag for air/missile/nuclear?
> It's not so much that air units are "native" to mountains as that they
> ignore terrain completely.

 "Native" here means that unit can exist without transport. Unit speed
regardless of terrain is completely different matter
(!UCF_TERRAIN_SPEED). It is possible to create low flying aircraft
that cannot pass mountains.


 - ML