[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Micromanagement

[Reinier Post <rp@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 05:00:41PM -0500, Mike Jing wrote:
 
> Another reason why there is not enough city development in Freeciv is that 
> there is no way to ensure peace.

No Senate ...

> An ironclad is 
> always more useful than a library when you don't need a library to research 
> steam engine.

But ironclads are lost.  The reason libraries aren't interesting is that by
the time you have ironclads, they can decide the game, and research only
takes a couple of turns per tech anyway.

> All this gives the impression that Freeciv is just a war 
> game.  I guess the space race is just window dressing after all.

It comes too late.

-- 
Reinier
 
> But things are looking up.  Diplomacy is getting better, and I think I saw 
> the senate (gasp!) in the CVS version.  It may not solve everything, but 
> it's at least a step in the right direction.

There's a CVS server on civserver.freeciv.org for testing.  What po
should we use to run it?  It updates to the nightly version automatically.
but it won't kill a running server.

> Mike

-- 
Reinier