[Freeciv-Dev] Re: More on (un)happiness

["Mike Jing" <miky40@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> It certainly works against the AI, and easier than before.
So the AI can't handle it, but this is more due to the weakness of the AI 
than anything else.
> I played as two civilisations (one smallpox and one big cities) and had an 
> AI as a control.  Smallpox was so far ahead in terms of tech that it was 
> ridiculous.  So you need 40% luxuries, but so what?  The big-city guy is 
> using only a fraction of the number of tiles that you are.
I have never used the smallpox strategy myself so I could be totally wrong.  
It may still be possible to circumvent the limit put on by increased 
unhappiness using the same trick.  Or maybe you are simply not growing your 
cities fast enough.
But this gives me an idea along the lines of your proposal, but in the other 
direction.  Since the problem comes from the fact that two size 1 cities use 
4 tiles while one size 2 cities could use only 3, why can't we simply make 
the city use only as many tiles as its size, but the city center gets 2 
extra food instead?   I know this may be a radical idea and may 
fundamentally change the game, but if happyness doesn't help, this seems to 
be a logical possibility.
> Having said that, it *does* give a different sort of civilisation; one 
> where you bother to make temples and to defend your cities and one which 
> has slower growth.
If this is not an angument for it, I don't know what is...

> On the other hand, don't you just hate trying to get unhappy people happy?  
> I find it irritating and it has more micromanagement.  Having played it, I 
> do agree with you, though, that the default settings are not unhappy 
> enough...
It doesn't necessarily cause more micromanagement if you get your strategy 
right.  Sure people may not like it at first, but this is an integal part of 
the game.  The way it is now, it is not even an issue, and you almost never 
have to set your luxury rate above zero, so why do we have it in the game at 
all?
Mike



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