Re: [glob2-devel] Forbidden flags - resources

[Gabriel Walt]

> Natural resources should grow fast when they are cut unless the grass is 
> transformed into sand to put buildings witch is more difficult than just 
> cut them.

But how would a player manage to transform grass to sand before building 
something? Would there be a special option on the clearing flag, or 
would the grass be automatically transformed to sand when a construction 
starts?

Transforming grass to sand is a cool idea, because it could also allow 
to limit the grow of resources in your town, instead of putting clearing 
flags everywhere. But this means that a new tool would be needed to make 
this transformation. Also, would this transformation be reversible or 
not? I think it could perhaps be funny to make it one-way, so you really 
have to think what you transform to sand.

> Irrigated, or cultivated resources should grow exactly as the cut 
> resources even when they are taken, this areas could be some special 
> kind of area like the restricted area or the defense line area (see 
> other post)

Ok, we already thought about irrigation a long time ago... But this is a 
difficult problem for the following reasons:
- I it really necessary? I mean isn't it more interesting for the 
gameplay to be forced to manage your resources correctly than to be able 
to irrigate them to use them massively?
- How would such a system work? Would it be a building, a flag, does it 
need to be supplied with some resource like water to work?

Gabriel