[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Unit upkeep and capitalisation

[Stephen Hodge <shodge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thue Janus Kristensen wrote:
> On Wed, 31 May 2000, Robert Rendell wrote:
> > I was just testing some changes I'd made, and discovered some behaviour I'm
> > not sure is right...  if a city has a negative shield surplus, supported
> > units are disbanded to put it back in the black again.  However, this
> > happens even if you have resources stockpiled... is this the same behaviour
> > as the original game?  I thought resources were removed from the stockpile
> > if you went negative, and units were only disbanded if the stockpile ran
> > out.

CivII disbands units immediately, regardless of stockpiled resources.

> > Also, the civ manual says that when units cannot be supported by a city,
> > they are disbanded "beginning with the unit farthest from the city".  The
> > current freeciv implementation just works through the unit list in order,
> > without checking distance.
> >
> > The other thing I noticed when I was looking at this function
> > (city_build_stuff() in server/cityturn.c) was that capitalisation gives you
> > only the shield surplus of the city, and not the shield surplus + resource
> > stockpile, thus losing you all current production when you first change to
> > capitalisation.  This isn't what I would have expected without reading the
> > code - when I've played games, I'd assumed that changing to capitalisation
> > would give me gold for the stockpile (after suffering the usual halving if
> > I'd been building a wonder or unit, of course), as well as the surplus.
> > What do other people think?

I'm not sure how CivII handles this but I suspect you're right.

Regards,
Steve Hodge