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

[Aliaga <aliaga@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 11:03 11/01/01 -0700, you wrote:

>I like that.  Maybe a city with a factory, or some other
>production-augmenting improvement, could be allowed to produce up to 3
>units a turn?

I should say a loud YES to that. Let a CivII city act as a WarcraftII
production center, churning out as many units as fast as it can. It should
be easy to code.

Besides, it would add nicely up to the idea of "working lists" or
"production queues" for cities.

But, there's two things that bother me with that idea:

- First, you could build in a very short time too many things/units for that
city to pay support for... Some kind of guessing algorithm should be put in
place to warn you of the danger.

- Second, and foremost: If it is so easy, then why didn't Sid make it so?
There may be some unbalancing of the game involved, though I fail to see
why. Or maybe the AI could not be made to handle that in a proper way...

That's why I was thinking of letting cities build more than one thing in one
turn, but not a whole bunch of things. Not without some deep playtesting.

M.A.

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