[Freeciv-Dev] Serious Suggestions
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Hi,
I have indeed some suggestions, which I would consider to be really
interesting. I would appreciate it if I you would allow me to
contribute to implement some of these features in FreeCiv.
1.) City-Building-Plans
-----------------------
Enable Users to define a plan for constructions, so that you could
say for example:
1) Build 3 Archers;
2) Build Granary;
3) Build City-Walls;
In later version, this could be done like a little programming
language so that one could write something like
OnEvent( Science(Monotheism) ) {
if( ! Wonder(JS-Bach) ) Build JS-Bach;
}
Which means, that when Pottery will be invented, the city will
start building the Granary as a kind of event-triggered.
These things could facilitate a lot of the work that has to be
done by a player => More fun. Plans can be stored in files and
recalled on demand. I'm quite used to write little interpreters.
Actually there's a run-time interpreted programming language
called 'Schwammerl' that I designed as a satellite language for
the orbit around C++ programs. We could use that.
2.) Regions:
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Combining cities to regions. Then one could manage these cities
MUCH EASIER by one interface like e.g. a dialog for production:
Region: Bavaria/Germany Pres: G. Schroeder
Nr. Cities: 20 AD: 1999 AD
Exist. Add Priority
Granary < 3 > 2 A
City wall < 2 > 17 C
Archer < 7 > 0 -
Warrior < 3 > 0 -
Pike-man < 1 > 12 B
Chariot < 0 > 0 -
Settlers <4711> 0 -
Programmers < 1 > 10 A [Table 1]
Where A,B,C,D stands for the priority and 1,2,3 ... for the number
of units to be build.
In a detailed view, one can modify the plan for each city. By
Default [Table 1] should be transformed into something similar by
a kind of internal AI.
| M | B | P| S| H| F |
| u | r | a| a| u| l |
| n | e | s| l| s| e |
| i | m | s| z| u| n |
| c | e | a| b| m| s |
| h | m | u| .| | . |
--------------+----|----|---|---|---|----|
Granary | |A 1 |A 1| X| X| |
City wall |B 1 |B 1 | | X| | X |
Archer | | | | | |A 1 |
Warrior |A 2 | | | | | |
Pike-man |D 1 | | |A 4| |B 2 |
Chariot |C 3 | | | | | |
Settlers | | | | | | |
(Programmers) |Z 1 | | | | | |
--------------+----|----|---|---|---|----|
3.) Setting Agriculture Plans from the main-map.
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Introduce a Button that allows to modify the use of land-squares
directly on the big map. Permanently popping up city-windows is
awful !
4.) Unit-Grouping:
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Tell a couple units to come to a certain place. Here also a
button, that shows all units (even the units in the cities) could
help. Then let user define a rectangle / polygon-line that should
include the units. Simply send all units a goto-command. Patrol
especially for sea would be interesting.
5.) Production/Growth - Estimations
-----------------------------------
Establish dialog boxes, where the user can see WHEN certain things
will be build like :
2820 BC: 3 Archers (Lille,Paris,Marseilles)
2800 BC: 2 Granary (Toulouse, LeMans)
1 City Wall (Metz)
[Dialog 5-1]
An ESTIMATION of different factors based on facts of [Dialog 5-1]
like i.e. productivity:
Productivity
6 ++--+----------+----------+---------+---------++
| + + + + *
| **
| **|
5 ++ **++
| ** |
| * |
| * |
4 ++ * ++
| ** |
| * |
| ** |
3 ++ ** ++
| ** |
| ** |
| *** |
2 ++ ** ++
| ** |
| ** |
| *** |
1 ++ *** ++
| *** |
| *** |
| + ***** + + +
0 ***********----+----------+---------+---------++
-2800 -2750 -2700 -2650 -2600
time
Other Graphs could be extremely helpful, such like
militarization-level, food, tax income, science activity etc.
Again a plot window where one could plot with gnuplot commands
would be great - like
> plot [:-2600] ScienceActivity(Bayern) w l, \
ScienceActivity(Rhone-d'Alpe/France) w l, \
Money(Thueringen) w d
This would make the game much more interesting for people who
like to analyze curves. One could perhaps use directly gnuplot
with some extensions like these external functions, or again
take 'Schwammerl' and pass the results to gnuplot.
6.) Additions to CivI/II:
------------------------
Free Software / Open Source Foundation. Should be there - think about
the 7.5 Million Linux Users actually. Could Cause Science
Improvements or so. Underwater cities - expand into the seas. Needs
kind of new technologies. Religion - Include other Religions. Make it
possible to build the Azhar University (Egypt) as something similar to
the JS-Bach Cathedral. People are playing FreeCiv all over the world
not only in 'Oberbayern'.
Also be more realistic with the 'Myth of FreeCiv'. Give FreeCiv more
the flair of an 'intelligent strategy gaming, that makes people
appreciate certain civilization advances, remembers them them the
importance of certain things for a society ...'. With the actual Myth
one could think it is a game for 14 years
Schwarzenegger-Fans. Civilization should be attractive for all groups
of ages.
7.) Web-Page:
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Make Appointments for voting, so that people on the web can
democratically decide, what additions they want to have. (Choose fancy
dates like 01-01-1999, 02-02-1999, 03-03-199. that's easier for people
to remember).
Announce a Project-Road-map on the web. So that people can see what is
going on, and when they can help at a certain moment.
That's it. I hope this thoughts are a kind of motivating for you.
Perhaps FreeCiv will be the cult-game of the 21th century ...
Sincerely,
-- Frank
>| Frank R. Schaefer
>| Office: 864-656-7183 Home: 864-858-4611
>| R. 116, Fluor Daniel Building,
>| Mech. Eng., Clemson University
>| Clemson, SC 29634, USA
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