[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Dips. OOPS please read this one!

[dnh <dnh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Thue wrote:

> On Tuesday 27 February 2001 17:09, Christian Knoke wrote:
> > dnh wrote:
> > > ARGH! sorry.. err I am of course refering to diplomats.
> > >
> > > On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, dnh wrote:
> > > > Erm I think perhaps the chance of a defending diplomat winning against
> > >
> > > an attacking dip should higher.. and if you have more than one it should
> > > get extra bonus. Otherwise there is no other way to beat a larger player
> > > who has something with a higher defense (ie musketeer and dip when all
> > > you have is pikemen)
> >
> > You can achieve this by setting the the diplchance variable
> > in the civserver to a lower value. I usually play with 50%.
> >
> > If I understand the helptext right, putting several diplomats
> > into a city multiplies the defence value.
> >
> > Christian
> 
> Diplchance is 80 to begin with - 80 percent chance to defeat defending 
> diplomats! This should rather be around 20, no?
> 
> -Thue
 
Err I thought dipchance was the chance of winning against an empty city. I
thought there was no way you could change how good diplomats are at
defending. IMHO it should be 80% chance of a dip winning against an
undefended city, -10% if there is a military unit defending and -60%
for a defending diplomat. For any more diplomats it just adds -10%.

That would mean to make a city immune to dip attacks you would need 3
defending diplomats and a military unit, hard.. but not impossible. For
Spys, if it is spys vs dips dips defend half as well (easy way to set that
would be to make diplomats have an effective firepower of 2) and spy vs
spy the same rules as diplomats except military units have no effect.

dnh

ps. this is just a rough guess as to what a fun solution might be, it may
not be perfectly correct with reality.. but at least it will be more fun.