[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Another wonder

[Tobias Brox <tobiasb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > - International Space Station
> 
>  In most people's opinion, the space station is no more than
> a giant pit that the EU, the US, Russia, and Canada are tossing
> money into in the vain hope that something will come out of
> it. 

What do we have back from the moon race and the apollo mission?  I
don't think it's much ... some few spin-off scientifical advances, like
the teflon material, resulting in better (?) frying pans and razors.  We
would probably have had a lot of communication satellites even without
manned space flight.

ATOH, if we're ever to send colonization ships to Mars, it will be way
after a space station.

It might also be that certain things might be cheaper to produce in micro
gravity.  A space station will certainly be the first step towards
satellite plants.

>  But if it does become a wonder, than it should cost 600 at 
> first, than just before you finish it, it should increase to 1000 =)

:)

I guess that applies for a lot of wonders.

Another thing ... when a wonder is beeing built and suddently
interrupted, the production points certainly cannot (in real life) be used
on another wonder ... _but_ in real life it's not unlikely that the
project can be started up again at a later point, without starting
completely from scratch.  I think this happened with the St Isaacs
cathedral, for instance.

> > - German reunification (end of cold war)
> 
> Who said there was a cold war in Freeciv world?

Cold and hot wars might be (and should be) started and ended by the
players themselves, through diplomatic actions.

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