[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Project goals

[saywhat@xxxxxxxxxxxx]

"Daniel Markstedt" <markstedt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 7/5/06, Per Inge Mathisen <per@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Tue, 4 Jul 2006, saywhat@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > >  So for Freeciv, I propose limiting the default number of cities 
> >
> > Arbitrarily limiting the number of cities will turn players away from the 
> I agree that the virtually limitless expanse of late game empires (a
> result of rampant expansion combined with the conquering of neighbors)
> makes actually playing a game to the end a chore. 
>
> So I've been thinking of another way of altering the way expansion
> works: changing the nature of the settler. The idea is to remove
> settlers as buildable units. You get a batch of them from the
> beginning, after which you must reach certain objectives to get access
> to more.
  That sounds like it would be worth trying. 

  I once tried altering the cost of a settler to 9999 shields
(in the ruleset file).  What happened?  The AI refused to use any
of its precious initial settlers to found a city. :-) 

> An objective could for example be reaching total population
> of X, at least X cities of size X, having a certain improvement in at
> least X cities, defeated X enemy units, made contact with X civs,
> having a total of X wonders, having X tiles within your borders etc
> etc. All ruleset controlled of course. Should be easy to implement
> with LUA.
  Sounds good.  How about adding a separate set of conditions
(at higher values) to serve as "end of game" (or victory)
conditions? 

-Eddie