[Freeciv] Re: RFE: terrain improvement: canal

[Nevin Hotson <nevin.hotson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

 nicholas.g.lawrence@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx[1] wrote:
freeciv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxx[2] wrote on 14/01/2006 12:24:48 PM: Jason Dorje
Short wrote: There would have to be good justification for a change like
this. What gameplay benefit would having canals provide? -jason It can be
really annoying to have a huge peninsula, or continent (Denmark, South
America, Africa) to go around when you could just change two squares to
canal. Depending on how large the detour was, you could halve the time for
reinforcements to reach the enemy (always a good thing). Considering the
vastamount of infrastructure required for a canal that can handle the
largestsea-going vessels... Why not use a string of cities? Sea-going
vesselscan already move into a city (by entering the harbour). What if a
sea-going vessel could move from the harbour of one city into the harbour of
a city in an adjacent square? nick This argument holds no water (ha ha --
whyaren't you laughing?); you'd still have to dig a canal to connect the two
harbours, unless they're close enough to be touching, in which case the
canalwould be really short. The Panama and Suez canals were both huge
expenses that were justified because of the great military benefit they led
to.
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