[Freeciv-Dev] (PR#7354) Re: (PR#7668) transporter types should be in the ruleset

["Marko Lindqvist" <cazfi74@xxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=7354 >

Jason Short wrote:
> 
> My idea (as described in PR#6174) is to generalize this to have 
> arbitrary carrying types.  For instance units.ruleset could specify
> 
>    carry_types = "ground", "air", "missile"
> 
> and then for each unit the unit specifies
> 
>    cargo_type = "ground"
> 
> and for transporters the unit specifies
> 
>    transporter_types = "air", "missile"
> 

  Now we have ruleset defined unit classes. Transporters should list 
unit classes it can transport.
  We want to keep number of unit classes relatively small. We don't want 
separate class for each kind of transport, so transportable classes 
should be property of unit_type.


  - ML