Hi, ok I see - so it was done on purpose do be able to decide when to claim any land around the colony.
An "unclaim land" action is not necessary, I agree. For the "lost" lumber when clearing the forrest: Wouldn't it then be the solution to claim the land as soon as the pioneer clears the forrest? So, claim the land for the colony, of course (setting the owningSettlement property). I would do this for all improvement actions which are in colony radius. (I think improvements cause claiming the tile anyway, but not for any colony in range). I added a patch for this (only): This patch should then claim any tile for a surrounding settlement of the claiming player which is in the tile's settlement range (added constant for that in SettlementType - this maybe intended to be a modifyable property in the future?). So if you clear then a forrest (or any other claimland action with a unit), the tile would also be added to the player's next settlement. This fixes also the "lost-lumber" I described. If you see other side-effects of this, tell me! BR, Stefan! -- Sent with Tutanota, the secure & ad-free mailbox. Dec 13, 2021, 23:09 by mp...@computer.org: > 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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