Re: [Freeciv-Dev] A few miscellaneous ideas for improvement

[Greg Wooledge <wooledge@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jules Bean (jmlb2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:

> The timing of terrain changes seems OK to me.  If anything, the whole
> idea seems a bit unbalancing to me.

It's taken directly from Civ2 (except, as noted, the timing).

I don't use it all that much, usually -- I usually have to send my
Engineers over to build roads and irrigation on the lands I've just
conquered, rather than wasting dozens of turns transforming terrain.
But occasionally it's a nice and useful feature (particularly after
global warming).

> On an almost entirely unrelated note - if the docs are to be believed,
> railroads are only barely useful in freeciv - they only affect squares
> with at least 2 resources - which is just coal and mined hills, IIRC.

Also forests (with or without game) and mined deserts and mountains,
as well as swamps with oil.  And whatever else I've forgotten....

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