On Mon, 13 Dec 2021 13:11:46 +0100 (CET) Stefan Fellner via Freecol-developers <freecol-developers@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > just a question as I noticed this during playing: > Is this on purpose that when building a colony that the surrounding tiles are > not claimed automatically?
Yes. Some players complained that they did not want to claim certain tiles for various reasons (most commonly, to avoid annoying nearby natives). As there is no mechanism for un-claiming a tile, we made claiming not happen by default. AFAICT most players usually just claim all the free land around a colony shortly after founding it so as to avoid aggressive other Europeans or wandering natives claiming the land, as they sometimes do. > At least the one's which are not owned by another party (indians for the > most); > It occurred to me when clearing a forrest with a pioneer on a then > "unclaimed" colony tile would usually add lumber to the colony's stock, which > when it is not "claimed" for the settlement does not work (get's lost). Correct, the lumber would be lost. I think this is a rare case and easily avoided. The alternative would be to add an un-claim land action, which probably needs a new command and client-server message. When this was last discussed we decided not to further clutter the command list with another very specialized command. Cheers, Mike Pope
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