[Freeciv-Dev] Re: comments on ics solutions

["Mike Jing" <miky40@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Marco Colombo <marco@xxxxxx> wrote:
> If you realize how big it was, given the tecnology of the time,
> you can't say happines was a problem. There were no means to enforce
> any kind of military control over such a big territory. This is OT,
> anyway, so let's drop it.
That's good idea.  The point here is that this is a game balancing feature 
that has little to do with realism.
> BTW, I've never (seriosly) played at CivII. I'm told that unhappiness
> penalty applies only to newer cities when you go over a certain number.
That is correct.  I haven't made the change because it gets a bit messy, and 
I wasn't sure if it would be worth the trouble since nobody seems to like 
the idea to begin with.  I would do it if it has a reasonable chance of 
being accepted.  Together with improved handling of corruption, it should be 
enough to stop ICS without being overly restrictive.
> I'll drop this discussion until I come up with some results and useful 
> patches. As a Linuxer, I like coding more that talking... B-)
It was a good discussion, and you have made many good points.
Now that people seem to be more receptive to the idea, I probably should 
modify the code to something closer to Civ2 behavior (without the loophole, 
of course).
Mike

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