Re: [Freeciv] Re: Visibly defended cities and a new role for embassies...

[Kris Bubendorfer <Kris.Bubendorfer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry about the non 80 columns.  Well, you've responded positively to my 
idea of an embassy retaining some of the diplomats functions (investigate,
poison and incite) but what about the defended cities visibility on the
mini map????  That was the thing that started it all!  

More full comments please.

>One alternative is to extend the power of an embassy - that is, allow it to
>inform it's owner of close by troop movements.  That is, we record the actual
>city the embassy is founded in, and provide the `defended' city information
>about all the cities within a certain radius.  That radius could be enlarged
>again when espionage is discovered.

>Of course you are still only permitted one embassy per player, and so should
>be more careful about where to place it.  I'd also like to see embassies lost
>when the host city is conquored.  Something has always seemed fishy to me
>about immutable embassies with no actual physical presence.

>I would also like an emabssy to retain the basic functions of a diplomat -
>that is, an immobile one.  I'd like the embassy to be able to bribe and poison
>it's host city.  If caught, the embassy should be razed.  

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You also have a probability of failing to establish a future embassy with that 
player, say diplchance.

>If bribing is sucessful the embassy is disestabllished.  Bribing individual
>units from an embassy makes little sense to me, so this would be incite only.
>Click on the city in which you have an embassy, and you get the same output as
>when a spy investigates.  You then also have as city options the bribing and
> poisoning abilities.

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Cheers Kris...