[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Some ideas + one patch

[Corin Anderson <corin@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:

> 4) Republic/Democracy are very overfeatured w/o Senate. Some
>    alternative kind of Senate should be set if we have no diplomacy.
>    Twice as much shields/turn upkeep for military units ? (all units ?)

Having never played pay-Civ, could someone please explain to me the Senate
feature?  I've figured out that it behaves roughly as a Senate IRL -- that
it can somehow "block" actions that a player makes.  How does this
blocking work?  And what actions are put under the scrutiny of the Senate?

Thanks,
Corey