[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Project goals

[Per Inge Mathisen <per@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 4 Jul 2006, saywhat@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>  So for Freeciv, I propose limiting the default number of cities
> that a player can create (via a settler) to a relatively small
> number (e.g. 5)
Arbitrarily limiting the number of cities will turn players away from the 
game in disgust. Nothing is more annoying than in-game limitations that 
are obviously added because the game designers did not know how to handle 
more. It makes a hole in the suspension of disbelief that you could run a 
truck through.
> - controlled by an option, of course.
Then it becomes irrelevant.

> 3) Alliances become essential for many players.
In multiplayer, alliances are already overpowered.

> For a long time, I've wondered if Freeciv could use techniques like 
> those used in Dan Bunten's Global Conquest to implement all three of the 
> above features.  (Global Conquest was a turn-based game that supported 
> multiple human players with both simultaneous turns and simultaneous 
> movement.)
Care to give us a synopsis of what that game did right?

  - Per