[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (Non-)Smallpox server.

["Mike Jing" <miky40@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Reinier Post <rp@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> However, marketplaces also eat up production for maintenance.
> So it's really expensive.  This means it takes some serious game time.
Actually, they pay for themselves very quickly if you do it right.  As for 
game time, I do concede that this is not for quick games.
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> I suppose learning to cope with the different rules will take away much of 
> the frustration but if at the end of the day the total game time is still 
> longer I don't think it is a feasible option for multiplayer mode.
When I first discovered Freeciv (i.e. before smallpox), I remember playing 
really long multiplyer games over the weekend.  Games under these rules do 
take longer than smallpox, but 4-5 hours is still quite manageable IMHO.
> If doing this is tedious (the first 4 hours of game time being spent with 
> everybody waiting for everybody else battling their own private problems 
> with happiness in their own private little empire) it just isn't worth it. 
> I'm not saying that it is, I'm just saying that having tried it for a 
> couple of games I don't feel up to the challenge.
Fair enough.  One man's fun is another man's tedium.  Some people actually 
enjoy building their own private little empire into a superpower over time.  
And like Tony Stuckey said: "You don't play in a vacuum".  There are plenty 
of oppotunities for intrigue and conflict even during relatively peaceful 
times.  But I guess most people would rather be duking it out with their 
ironclads and horsemen.
Long Live Smallpox.

Mike


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