[Freeciv-Dev] [Fwd: metrobonus patch]

[Michael Hasselmann <michael.hasselmann@xxxxxx>]

Hi folks,

here comes the metrobonus-patch...again. The first one was - as Rikard
Anglerud remainded me (see fwd'ed mail) - incomplete: The
metrobonus-option wasn't handled when saving the game, therefore it was
lost when reloading a game. Some of you perhaps didn't even get so far
because they couldn't handle the original diff-file, as it was gziped
but didn't had the proper ending - shame on me for not checking that
earlier ;-)

The metrobonus-option was thought as a "prevention" against ICS. Now,
after several games, I just can say that it works fine! It doesn't
really forbids ICS, but it gives you a real chance to defend. You can
seriously enforce the metrobonus by setting the research-speed-option to
15 or even higher. ICS-player will then surely lose the tech-race.

Furthermore, the AI gets along quite well with this bonus.
 

ciao Michael Hasselmann

PS: Feel free to critisize me if I've done anything stupid again :-)

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: metrobonus patch
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 22:26:43 +0100 (CET)
From: Rikard Anglerud <anglerud@xxxxxxxx>
To: <michael.hasselmann@xxxxxx>

Hi,

I'm writing about your metrobonus patch for freeciv. A few friends and I
have
been using your patch to prevent ICS quite sucessfully.

Unfortunately, as you are aware, the patch does not save state to the
savefiles. That's of course not as important as being to load it back
again (I
could always add it to the savefile by hand). The question then is, do
you have
an updated version of teh path, or are you planning on making one?

I'm a bit hesitant to start digging though the freeciv source if you
are.

Rikard

-- 
[Scientific Study] Is one of the very few things that lifts human life a
little above the level of farce, and gives it the grace of tragedy.

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