[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Civ II player puzzled by ICS strategy (long)

["Mike Jing" <miky40@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Aliaga <aliaga@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Marko Lindqvist <caz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > In fact, extremely high corruption level makes ICS stronger >>strategy.  
> > Each city gets at least 1 gold even after corruption, if
> > it has trade at all. When (theoretical) corruption level >= 100% (12
> > squares from capital under despotism), you get 1 gold/city. Trade/city 
> > does not matter, number of cities does.
I haven't looked that part of the code.  But the way it is now, corruption 
does indeed favor ICS, especially at the start, because it tends to build 
cities close together: shorter distance => less corruption.
[snip]
> I seem to recall a helpfile where corruption was defined not as a
> percentage, but simply as "amount of city output lost", say a shield
> and a trade at 8 squares, two of each at 9 squares, three at 10 squares and 
> so on until zero net output.
> This is the biggest stall against ICS in CivII, forcing you to higher
> Governements, higher expenses, building improvements, improving land...
In that case, we will have to review how corruption is implemented in 
Freeciv.
Mike

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