Boats on lakes

[Elucidus]

With the ability of Forts to be used as canals, up to two long, is there a way to make it so that a city with access to even a lake to build normal ships and not just fishing ships? I have had a lot of instances where this would have come in handy.

There should be a way to check to see that through canals if a city has water access then ships and water buildings should be buildingable. Or just make them buildable on lakes to begin with.

I looked through the XML. Any ideaS?

 

[Refar]

I think there is a entry in GlobalDefines.xml, for how big a water area has to be, to count as ocean (and hence allow Naval builds). Don't remember the exact name - something about MIN_SIZE_FOR_OCEAN

 

[Elucidus]

yeah I guess that would work, but tjem there would be no lakes. Changes it to one or whatever.

 

[Dresden]

You can try changing the <iMinAreaSize> for each naval unit in the UnitInfos xml file too but most likely you'd need to alter the CvCity::isCoastal() function in the SDK.

 

[Elucidus]

I think I tried that, but I will try again to make sure.