From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19571 invoked by alias); 9 Dec 2003 05:23:48 -0000 Mailing-List: contact xconq7-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: xconq7-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 19564 invoked from network); 9 Dec 2003 05:23:47 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO smtp802.mail.sc5.yahoo.com) (66.163.168.181) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 9 Dec 2003 05:23:47 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO 6-allhosts) (sampln@sbcglobal.net@64.175.248.254 with plain) by smtp802.mail.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 9 Dec 2003 05:23:46 -0000 Subject: Re: Cannot do anything in water From: Lincoln Peters To: Hans Ronne Cc: Xconq list In-Reply-To: References: <1070854101.22214.7955.camel@odysseus> (message from Lincoln Peters on Sun, 07 Dec 2003 19:28:22 -0800) <1070854101.22214.7955.camel@odysseus> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1070947554.1444.1157.camel@odysseus> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2003 12:50:00 -0000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2003/txt/msg01008.txt.bz2 On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 15:24, Hans Ronne wrote: > >That's not what I've observed. I've often found that if the cell I tell > >it to build in is illegal (e.g. try to build a city in the water), but > >it can build in a nearby legal cell without moving (the cell is within > >its create-range), it will build in that alternate location instead. > >And it never asks if that is what I want to do. > > That's what I meant. The computer should never do that. If you try to do > something which is not permitted, it should just beep at you. So this is > definitely a bug. True, but at the time, my game was set up so that one *could* build stuff on water cells (and those units would not instantly vanish or wreck). This was so that, although most units cannot cross bodies of water on their own, many could build simple boats to carry them across. I think that this means that there are, in fact, two or more bugs at work here. Lincoln Peters