[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Patch: bye bye free city center

[Tony Stuckey <stuckey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 10:15:59PM -0500, Mike Jing wrote:
> Not surprisingly, quite many people are opposed to this.  During one recent 
> game, the great Assmund offered this objection to my effort to slow down the 
> expansion:" You know, historically, expansion is extremely important."  Ah 
> sure, but it also makes an extremely boring game -- Freeciv is now simply 
> Free-expand and nothing more.  So that's entirely beside the point.  Others 
> argue that slowing down the game would simply make the game last too long.  
> This is indeed a valid concern, but I believe a long and interesting game is 
> much better than a short and boring one.  I would rather sit through an 
> 8-hour game where there is at least a possibilty that my space ship would 
> reach Alpha Centauri, rather a 2-hour game where the result is apparent as 
> soon as the first ironclad appears.  But again, that might just be me.

        Apparently, something has changed, and it's now impossible for
those other players to trade tech with each other and catch up.

        You're not playing in a vacuum.
-- 
Anthony J. Stuckey                              stuckey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
"And they said work hard, and die suddenly, because it's fun."
        -Robyn Hitchcock.