[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Blitzkrieg patch

[Jed Davis <jldavis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

--On Sunday, 30 July 2000 4:50 PM +0200 Tomasz Wegrzanowski 
<maniek@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 30, 2000 at 08:57:23AM -0400, Jeff Mallatt wrote:
> > I wouldn't mind seeing (in the default ruleset) a limiting of the power
> > of some of these unbalancing wonders.  Maybe, simply change all the
> > current "eternal and global" wonders to become obsolete at some point
> > (hopefully, we could come up with reasonable techs that would obsolete
> > each wonder). The ones I'm most unhappy with (i.e., the ones I try to
> > get myself ;-) are:
> >
> > A.Smith's Trading Co.
> > Cure for Cancer
> > Hoover Dam
> > J.S. Bach's Cathedral
> > Magellan's Expedition
> > Michelangelo's Chapel
> > SETI Program
> > United Nations
> > Women's Suffrage
> SETI isn't so important.
> If you already have Computers, not so much is to be invented,
> unless you are very concerned about final score and want to have
> many many Future Techs.
>
> Women's Suffrage is much less powerful than in paycivs.
>
> Also add Pyramids to this list as they are very very cheap, and
> never go obsolete.
>
> Maybe we should just add bigger cost for some of them (Pyramids, Bach,
> Mich, Smith, Leonardo), and set Magellan to add 1 point in default
> freeciv ruleset ???
The reason I prefer the idea of per-city or per-unit costs is so that there 
will be an ongoing cost proportional to the ongoing benefit, instead of 
just a one-time fixed cost, which tends to favor large civilizations that 
already have an advantage due to their size.  Maybe this is completely 
against the original idea of Wonders, but I think it would make them a 
little less unbalancing.
--Jed