[Freeciv-Dev] Re: comments on ics solutions

[Jules Bean <jules@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 01:24:24AM +0100, Raimar Falke wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 10:32:14AM -0800, Paul Zastoupil wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 11:51:36AM +0100, Raimar Falke wrote:
> > > On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 03:22:59AM -0300, Martin Olveyra wrote:
> > > > 2 - reality: The raw matter or low level manufactured production goes 
> > > > from
> > > >       small cities to the bigger ones, which really make the highly 
> > > > manufactured
> > > >       goods.
> > > >       freeciv abs.: the big cities builds the units, very quickly, and 
> > > > in a
> > > >       centralized way, and all kind of expensive improvements and
> > > 
> > > Big cities should be able to build more than one thing per turn.
> > 
> > Shouldn't all cities be able to produce more than one unit per turn if
> > the shields were available?   Otherwise we are just dealing with more
> > micromanagement.
> 
> Just checked it. No. Only one unit is build per turn. Probably Sid
> Meier hasn't choosen this without reason. There are probably balance
> issues attached with this. 
> 
> An explorer costs 30 shields. A city larger than size 8 produces more
> than 30 shields. How fast can a city be pushed up to size 8 or 9?

Given that the point we're trying to address is the counter
undesirableness of size 8 or 9 cities, it doesn't sound unbalancing to 
me.

Consider that the current system is yet another reason to prefer 2 x
20 shield producing cities that 1 x 40.

Of course, it might be nice to have a tech advance and/or improvement
which allows multi-production.

While we're on this subject, I wonder if there could be a land
improvement (for lack of a better word it could be called an oil
pipeline) which is very expensive to build (e.g. 4 turns with an
engineer) but when you connect two cities with it, it transfers
(perhaps not all, perhaps not 100% efficiently) shield production from 
one to the other.

Obviously these would be a first target for enemy pillaging. (might
make pillaging more exciting).

'Realistically' you might even expect railways alone to have this
effect.  I suppose it could be a land improvement built on top of
railways, called 'industrial rail link' or something rather more
interesting than that..

Jules