[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (unfinished)patch: improved trade and commodities.ruleset

[Brian Duff <bduff@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Reinier Post wrote:

> The problem is, in human to human games, it takes too much time.
> I've never used a caravan for anything but wonder building.
>
> But an autocaravan mode for cities (city builds caravan, selects target city,
> sends caravan on its way with goto) could resolve this problem.
>

I kind of like the Civ: Call To Power way of doing this. You still build 
caravans
and trade commodities as before, but there is no caravan unit. Once you build a
caravan, the game keeps track of how many free caravans you have, and you can
just assign trade routes from a dialog. Of course Civ:CTP has all sorts of other
stuff, like the ability to break trade routes by piracy, but this requires
physically representing the trade routes on the map.

Brian

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