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

[Rizos Sakellariou <rizos@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> 
> On Wed, 10 Mar 1999, Alexandre BERAUD wrote:
> > In all Civ games, governments have always been "ideal" governments.
> 
> To the contrary, my impression is that they have always been based on
> historical governments. So you have Repulic modelled after the early
> french and american revolutionary governments, democracy after the modern
> western democracy, and communism after USSR. You can see this in
> everything from implementation to (trivially) officials pictures and ruler
> names.

That was my impression too with respect to Republic. However, I am puzzled 
that Republic comes before Banking; even Trade or Currency discovery are not
necessary for it. If we accept that its basis is the late 18th century
developments, I think that the Republic comes too early in the tech tree.
IMHO, this means that almost always there is no reason why one should go
for Monarchy first rather than Republic (just one more tech required).
People with civI/II experience tell me that the Republic had disadvantages
that are not currently implemented in Freeciv. If this is true, isn't
perhaps time to start thinking about adding these?

Regards,
--rizos