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

[Tomasz Wegrzanowski <maniek@xxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 10:21:00PM +0000, Jules Bean wrote:
> I don't understand your objections at all. The Senate will work perfectly
> well against human opponents just as against AI opponents. The Senate will
> prevent you from moving your units onto improved land or attacking any
> power you are at peace with, and it will force you to make peace whenever
> possible.

How to do it w/o ending with 4 different Senates :
- ai's Senate for other ais
- ai's Senate for humans
- human's Senate for ais
- human's Senate for other humans
(IIRC ai in mpciv1 ignored own Senate, did it differ in mpciv2 ?)

- with strong and equal Senate, players will
  exploit every ai with Republic/Democracy.
- with strong and inequal Senate, ai will exploit
  players with Republic/Democracy.
- with weak and equal Senate, players will know ways around,
  ai won't
- with weak and inequal Senate, this will be more to annoy than
  to make any changes in gameplay

Oh, and we will have to provide a lot of diplomatics.
There are only 2 possibilities as experience shown :
- ai will be cruely exploited by players via diplomacy (col, mom)
- 90% of diplomacy options will be unused (mom)

I might be wrong, only implementations I saw (civ1, civ2, col, mom),
are completely unsuitable for multiplayer game.