[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Bugfix: One way to fix (PR#541)

[Neil Stevens <multivac@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 07 January 2001 11:10 pm, Marko Lindqvist wrote:
> On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Neil Stevens wrote:
> > On Sunday 07 January 2001 10:30 pm, Marko Lindqvist wrote:
> > >  - Spaceship can be launched only if capital exists.
> > >  - Spaceship is lost whenever palace is lost.
> >
> > I thought it was possible in Civ2 to launch without a palace?  It's
> > been a while, so is my memory just faulty?
>
>  It was possible, but I consider it a bug. If you don't need capital in
> the first place, why would losing it later hurt you?

One can see it as a form of balancing governments.  While it's supposed to 
be hard to win a war under Democracy, the ability to sell your palace and 
launch a spaceship would make it easier to win the space race with 
Democracy.

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Neil Stevens
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