Re: [Xconq-general] GIS mapping revisited: are we getting close?

[Lincoln P. <sa...@sb...>]

On Sat, 2005-03-19 at 15:23 -0800, Elijah Meeks wrote:
> This is very exciting, I think it'll provide the
> opportunity to make some incredibly interesting games.

Agreed.

>  The only comment I have is related to the rivers.  I
> like the solution of combining both borders and
> connectors.  With the right graphics, it would look
> great, and then you could have big rivers (Which are
> borders and connectors) and small rivers (Which are
> just borders).  Actually, I think that's what I need
> to do to properly model gunboats and river navies
> during the Civil War era.  I think it's almost time to
> dust off Cast Iron Life.

I would hope that there is a better solution than to define rivers as
both borders and connections.  Perhaps it should be possible for
connections to impede movement in the same manner that borders do.  I
added such a feature request to the tracker a few minutes ago.

If connections could be made to impede movement, then I suspect that you
could accomplish the small river/big river thing with two terrain types.
Of course, ideally you'd be able to do so with only one terrain type,
but I don't think that will be possible in the foreseeable future.

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