[Freeciv-Dev] Re: A Genius is Born

[Jason Todd <idjason@xxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, you wrote:
> >  Why not have an event called A Genius is Born. What this would be is
> > that some guy like Isaac Newton or Einstein, is born and you get an
> > increased research rate for say, 50 turns. The likelyhood of this
> > happening would be enough that one would be born once every 500 years
> > per civ. 
> 
> > What does everyone think
> 
> It will definitively add something to the game - but it breaks with the
> intention of getting as close to pay-civ as possible, doesn't it?
> 
> Think about this; of all the "well-known geniouses", most of them were
> living in ancient Greece or in Europe after 1450 ... there is very few
> "well-known geniouses" from the "dark" middle-ages.
> 
> So where does this lead us?  It's not enough that a genious is born -
> the external conditions must be right for allowing a genious to develope,
> do scientifical work and even to get the scientifical results accepted by
> the community (have you heard of dr Semmelweis?).
> 
> What about those ideas ... might require quite a lot of work, but I think 
> it might increase the realism:
> 
> - remove the wonders that are directly related to famous scientists
> 
> - every time a city grow, there is a certain chance (based on the science
> production in the city) that the newcomer is a genious.
> 
> - The name is picked from a list of real well-known scientists,
> semi-randomly and partly from what has and hasn't been researched.

Well, if anyone wants i'll go and compile a list of well known and obscure
genius'

> - A genious might be used just like any other worker, but as long as the
> food production allows it, he is by default working as a scientist.
> 
> - A genious working as a scientist will produce twice as much bulbs as a
> normal scientist.
> 
> - A genious working as a scientist at a city with a university will
> increase bulb production with 50%
> 
> - There is a chance (calculated from the citys total bulb production)
> every turn that a scientist genious will suddently finish his "major" work
> if the dependencies are satisfied.  I.e. Newton might suddently come up
> with Newtons Laws of gravity - independent of the current research effort.
> 
> - A genious might be moved from one city to another.
> 
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