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

["Mike Jing" <miky40@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> 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 just tried it also.  Indeed, at the beginning, the number of cities are 
far too important because of the free city center.  Also, now in Freeciv, 
the effect of empire_size_inc is to reduce the number of content citizens in 
the city before any other factors are applied, therefore it has no real 
effect when there is no content citizens to start with.  This means it is 
still possible to expand using the smallpox strategy without any further 
panelty once you get past cityfactor.  But if it was done right and 
intruduce "very unhappy" citizens, 40% or even 100% luxury won't be enough 
if you try to expand too far.  Even though one may get ahead for a little 
while, it doesn't pay off in the long run.  So I still think this is the 
right way to go.  Of course, this means even more unhappiness, and it seems 
nobody likes that.  Oh well.
Mike

Mike

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