The problem we had before was this: * All borders were drawn. * Border information was only given for visible tiles. * The end result was that you couldn't see many tiles that you owned, causing a massive patchwork of borders within your own territory as you re-explored it. * Also when an enemy city changed hands and you re-explored that territory, it would cause a similar patchwork. It would be obvious to the player that a city was owned by the enemy but the display wouldn't know it yet since that tile hadn't been re-explored.
There might be some way around this by clever adjustments to the display algorithm. For instance ptile->source could give the border source so any time a player discovered a changed tile the player map would toggle that city's owner and all borders owned by it. All borders would then be done in clumps rather than tile-by-tile. Another idea of course is to give full vision to tiles you own, which does indeed make plenty of sense - though it does not prevent enemies from finding your borders invisibly, as they don't have to enter your territory to see it. Yet another idea would be to give passive updates to tiles you own (keeping it fogged but re-updating all information, I believe this is the update_tile_knowledge() function or some such). This would prevent any patchwork issues on your own borders as you'd know about them expanding even though the tile was fogged. Some combination of these could be better than what we have now. But any new design must be thought out and then carefully playtested. -jason _______________________________________________ Freeciv-dev mailing list Freeciv-dev@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/freeciv-dev
