Re: world as a globe

On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 04:39:05AM -0800, Christoph Petschnig wrote:
> 
> Hello!
> 
> I don't know, if this has ever been discussed, but is it (by
> reasonably means) possible to make a freeciv-version, that is not a
> cylinder but a globe?
> 
> When airoplanes fly between (western) europe and the u.s., they go
> over scotland for the shortest distance, altough it looks like a
> detour an a normal world map.
> 
> Wouldn't it be cool to have bombers fly over the poles to attack
> targets unreachable in a cylindric world? I also think the freeciv
> poles are just to big for a realistic world.
> 
> It might be necessary to replace the squares by circles, but maybe
> there are also other solutions.
> 
> My questions: does anybody else like this idea? Would this mean to
> change 90% or only 10% of the code? (I do know that 10% is still
> rather huge than small).

there are 'plans' in place to have a torus or bicylinder world so N/S wraps
as well as E/W but this is quite a ways off.

-mike