Re: Gestures

Good idea!
Perhaps the available building/units should be separated from each 
other. Lets say, there are defensive(military) buildings and normal 
buildings. You can set the city to build military buildings(such as 
barracks and walls) and it will start building a barracks and, when its 
finished, builds walls. If you feel that the city doesn't need strong 
military, you can set to normal buildings and it will build granary, 
bank and so on. The units can also be separated, like agressive units, 
defensive units, naval transport, naval units, and other units(like 
caravan, diplomat/spy, settler, worker, etc.) With these separates you 
can easily manage all of your cities from the map, just right click and 
select what kind of units/structures you want to build.
Another idea is to set a default cma, which controls your new cities. It 
could be something like this: Food factor:3 ; industry factor:2 ; and 
gold surplus:-20(because it's annoying that the city build something 
costs maintenance and the cma lost control)

sashee


John D. Preston wrote:

>That would be a neat idea if implemented well. Something else that 
>would help when managing large empires is if the player could 
>right-click on a city and get a pop-up menu allowing him to manage 
>commonly accessed city tasks (such as unit building, settling unrest, 
>production priorities, etc.
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>On 10 Dec 2004, at 16:10, sashee wrote:
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>>Hi all!
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>>I'm just thinking about a cool feature in FreeCiv. It's a mouse 
>>gesture,
>>what I really can imagine in FreeCiv. Imagine, that you right click on
>>your city and draw a circle and the city is building a defensive unit,
>>if you draw a capital L, it's building an attacking, and if you just
>>move down then up, it's building a structure.
>>Why is it good? Well, I don't think most people may use it, but I think
>>it would be a great feature to help people manage empire from the map,
>>no need to zoom the city and switch the production manually. And
>>ofcourse, it is not necessary to use, just make thing simplier.
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>>I'm looking forward to your reply.
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>>sashee
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