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

[Aliaga <aliaga@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 12:30 11/01/01 -0500, you wrote:

>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.

Well, I would not call a dozen small cities "Infinite" <grin>. And if you
bear in mind the need to let them grow later, you'll wind up having to space
them farther apart, which only worsens things in the early time, so it
becomes more of a challenge. The Beginning is a Very Delicate Time...


>In that case, we will have to review how corruption is implemented in Freeciv.

Yes indeed, there may have been a not-so-slight difference with the original
implementation. As someone said, Civ is a bunch of neat little features
carefully balanced to make the whole game worthwhile. Every little point of
divergence can make a wholly different game.

But please, someone should check my numbers on CivII's corruption, as they
are drawn from a less than perfect memory.


>Mike

Just noticed, I'm Mike, too.   :-)

M.A.

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