[Freeciv-Dev] Re: City improvement

[Greg Wooledge <wooledge@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tony Stuckey (stuckey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:

>       Oh, no, they're definitely useful!  3-4 trade a turn makes up for
> the cost of the Caravan/Freight unit quite quickly.

The reason why I don't normally use them?  The easiest trade routes to
create are into cities you can reach with sea transports.  But if you
can get a Caravan into the city, it's equally easy (actually easier!)
to get a Spy or a military unit into the city.

After a while, I learned that within a few turns of establishing a trade
route in an enemy city, I had conquered that city, greatly diminishing
the trade returns.

So I figured I'd just omit the Caravan step, and go straight for the
conquest.  Speeds the game up a bit that way. ;-)

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