[Freeciv] Re: An idea about diplomacy

[Tomasz Wegrzanowski <maniek@xxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 01:41:17AM +0000, moz@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Making spies invisible would be a bit radical. To work they'd have to be
> intangible too, so you'd have the possiblity of multiple enemy units in
> the one square which I don't think has come up in freeciv before. Otherwise
> your "invisible" unit would keep getting run over by enemy units blundering
> into it. With fog-of-war this becomes almost moot, since any unit that's
> out of direct sight will be effectively invisble.

God forbid !
Submarines are already invisible, and I was talking about something
similar. When unit tries to enter tile with submarine/spy, hidden unit becomes
visible, and that unit doesn't make a movement, nor loose any mps.

> Actually, with fog of war we can also start adding visibility-enhancing
> improvements to cities. As one example, an airport should increase visiblity
> of air units to perhaps three squares instead of two. And maybe a satellite
> ground station could boost that to seeing all units at three or four squares
> from a city? Could make it one for early cities, addition of city walls or
> any second stage improvement (cathedral, university etc) boosts that to two?

Why city walls ?
Unit in fortress should have vis = 2, and fortress will be made much more often.