Re: [Freeciv-Dev] Catching up + Some thoughts - comments sought

[a_beraud@xxxxxxxx (Alexandre BERAUD)]

Per wrote:

>I think the contrary is true - Civ tries to emulate "actually existing
>socialism" (ie USSR/China), and does not give a damn what some people
>might think socialism/communism _really_ is. I think that is the best and
>only way to go without annoying some people with leftist leanings.
>
>So, please, keep "ideal" communism out of it, please. We would never 
>agree what it is.

I DO NOT agree ! (so, I agree with Lalo) (hmmm, becomes something
complicated...)
In all Civ games, governments have always been "ideal" governments.
Do you really think in the USSR, corruption was reduced to 0 ?
Are you sure anarchy has ever been used to govern a country ?
I really think Civ and Civ-clones have not been done to copy the Earth's
history but to re-do history if you had the opportunity to do it.
As Lalo said, russian communism (as quite all comunist governments
aroung the world) was quite like despotism and if you want Freeciv's
governments to be realistic, they wouldn't be so different from each
other. And it would be a real mess to develop.
Let's leave the things as pure as they are.

Alexandre BERAUD
( Moreover, Communism is my favorite Civ/Civ2/Freeciv government :o))