[Freeciv-Dev] Re: wonder balance (was: Blitzkrieg patch)

[Tomasz Wegrzanowski <maniek@xxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 09:29:28AM +0200, Reinier Post wrote:
> The Pyramids are rarely built by experienced players, because
> 
>   - early on, it's cheaper to double your number of cities instead!
>     the Pyramids cost 200 = 5 settlers = 5 cities; more, actually,
>     since shields will sit idle until the last of the 200 has been spent
>   - later, there is usually a more interesting wonder to target

200 shields != 5 cities

Settlers cost 40 shields + at least 20 food + some amount of shields and food
of upkeep until they go to right place.

So Pyramids costs rather 3 cities than 5, and for every new Settlers
you pay only half of food, so it might really help your expansion.

But if Pyramids cost 400, it would be much better balanced.