[Freeciv-Dev] Re: balancing governents

["Marc Strous" <marc_strous@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > And on governments: Is the Republic really that much more powerful than
> > Monarchy?
>
> Yes!!!  (I don't really know about Democracy/Communism.)  Civ I and II
> put a serious penalty on Republic and beyond: in those governments you
> could hardly fight any wars, because your senate would close a peace
> behind your back, or an unfriendly action would throw yopu into anarchy.
> This is arriving in Freeciv but it isn't quite there yet.
>
> And I think this may be enough of a check on the power of Republic.
> It is always possible to experiment with different government rulesets
> of course.
perhaps some governments should be "better" than others - but for the 
strategy flavour of the game it is more important that different governments 
serve different purposes - for the benefit of science, production, growth, 
war etc. you choose your government not simply because you have discovered 
democracy but because you lag beyond in technology terms and have to catch 
up etc.
marc
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