[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Making big cities more important

[Tobias Brox <tobiasb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> So, what about having some attractive cities suck the populations of
> other cities close to them. It would be fun to have some cities reduce
> by lack of industries or so, and sometimes become ruins. They would be
> remains of the old times.

I like that idea, having "attractiveness" defined as the citys total
entertainment production minus pollution production maybe.  It would be
realistic for a democracy or republic, I think.  Maintaining a small
working population at isolated polluted industrial sites (i.e. near a coal
mine) might (in reality) be quite expensive, I think - except if you have
the power to force the workforce to settle there and keep staying there
(i.e. Stalinism, Despotism, etc)

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