[Freeciv-Dev] Reformation, ranked games, patriotism/nationalism, propaganda

[Arkadiusz Danilecki <szopen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi there!
        As i said in previous mail, after reading archives of freeciv-dev
i get some new ideas (mostly for freeciv 2+ :-) ).

1) Reformation. It had great impact on history of Europe. It can't be
new tech. It just happened. This can result in disorders, civil wars, but
also in new units (tabor e.g or .. hm.. steel-side? how they were called ,
soldiers of cromwell?) and after reformation some speedup of sceince

2) Patriotism/nationalism. When you discuss about cultural domination, i
thought it is not so easy. Patriotic nation can resist ,,kulturkampf''
even if their own country is poor etc. Nationalism - sometimes nations get
crazy and just love to fight with others. This also could not be tech.
Patriotism and nationalism can't be just developed. Romans were
nationalists: although they had rebuplic, they happily fight with others. 

3)Propaganda! Idea is simple. When senat is against the war in rebuplic
etc, you could spend some money of showing you enemies as monsters to own
nation, so next time senat would happily agree with war.

4) Ranked games - this is an idea also simple/ I don't follow all posts
about freeciv tournament, but it seems it will be very hard to organise.
Maybe instead create something like this: 
   If you want your game be ranked, set option in server
    It could be global ranking where will be stored ranks of players.

for each game you could get some poiints: Eg. 
1) if you had less than 10 points (beginner) you get one point for winning
with AI hard.
2) if you had less than 20 points you get 1 point for winning with
beginner :)
3)  If you win with some better than you (with better ranking) you get
lets say 2/4/6 points. If you win with someone equal, you get 1 point, if
you win with someone worse, you get less points (1/2 ..)
4) if you lose with someone who had worse ranking, you lose points
etc. etc.

It could be sth similar to ELO. of course it's just are fogged idea.

What do you think?
regards
A.D.Danilecki "szopen"

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