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

["Mike Jing" <miky40@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tony Stuckey <stuckey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 08:27:16AM -0500, Mike Jing wrote:
> > Christian Knoke <ChrisK@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > AFAIK these big cities produce a *lot* of science. Reduce science
> > > rate in the second half of the game and it will pay out.
> Fundamentalism as implemented in Civ2 also benefits most from
> extremely large cities.  (Built on demand by Republic/Democracy
> celebrations!)  The simple phrase "no citizen is ever unhappy" is so
> game-breakingly lame it's just scary.  My suggestion for Freeciv is simply 
> to make that "3 unhappy citizens per city are made content" or some similar 
> lesser effect that doesn't rape the entire principle of Civ gameplay.
I guess nobody could dispute that.  But then again, I could be wrong on that 
too.
> > If you live long enough to see it, that is.  You would be too far behind 
> > early on and most likely eliminated long before this happens if you play 
> > against a good ICS player.
> Am I missing something?  On a generator 2 world, it's going to take
> you enough turns to research and build your Trireme + enough military
> units that I will have produced an actual defense.
No, no, no.  It wasn't you.  It was me.  It is just that I forgot how much I 
suck.
Sorry about all the whining.

Mike


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