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

[Tomasz Wegrzanowski <maniek@xxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 10:34:11PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> Tomasz Wegrzanowski (maniek@xxxxxxxx) wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 09:29:28AM +0200, Reinier Post wrote:
> > >   - 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
> > 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.
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> Comments?

They shouldn't even start building Pyramids in city with 3 shields output
and no Caravans.