[Freeciv] Re: Bug or feature?

[Jed Davis <jldavis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

--On Monday, 3 July 2000 11:58 AM -0400 David Ronis 
<ronis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I just upgraded to the latest 1.11.0 release.   It compiled and
> installed without any problems.  However when I play I've noticed that
> transports (or earlier ships) have the following annoying features:
>
> 1.  They automatically load units from ports they happen to be in.
>
> 2.   If on the way to some destination, they go through a coastal city,
> they will unload the units they're carrying.  This inevitably costs a
> turn (at least) while you go back for them.
>
> I can think of situations where these two features would be desirable,
> but for the most part I don't think they are.  Can they be turned off?
Apparently whenever a ferry-ship of some sort is in a city, sentried units 
(as many as possible) are put on the boat and non-sentried units are put in 
the city.  I'm not sure if there's any way to turn this off, but for a 
workaround what I do is to fortify units I want to stay in the city and 
sentry units I want on a boat.
To complicate things, I think units on a ship are autosentried after a turn 
onboard, but if the ship goes through a city in the same turn as a unit is 
moved onto it (as opposed to picking it up already-sentried from a city) 
it'll probably be unloaded.
Hope this helps somehow.

--Jed, who's still trying to get the hang of using ferry-ships.