[Freeciv-Dev] Re: settler_worker_cost patch

["R. Miller" <richere@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 20:40 01-03-05 -0800, Arien Malec wrote:
> Attached is a patch implementing part of the ICS defeating strategies
> recently discussed: upping the cost of making settlers. This patch adds
> a game.ruleset variable:
>
> settler_worker_cost
>
> that makes it possible to adjust how expensive it is, in terms of city
> works, to create settlers/engineers.
>
> (I think ultimately this should be a function of units.rulesets, but it
> was simpler to put it in games.rulesets for now).
>
> To implement the patch, I also made city_auto_remove_worker to take a
> parameter of the number of workers to remove, and to actually decrement
> city size. I think this is more modular and cleaner, but is not
> actually necessary to change the Freeciv behavior.
>
> I've tested the game with the patch: it changes the game dynamic quite
> radically, even with a settler_worker_cost of 2 (note that you could
> set the worker cost to 0 which would be ICS ++++).
>
> I would also recommend creating a light terraforming unit (roads,
> irrigation), to rebalance the increased settler cost (I tested game
> play reusing the Elephants unit as a light terraforming unit, but of
> course, one would want to create a new unit).
>
> Have fun.
>
> Arien
Hello,

I was changing the rules.txt file in Civ2 yesterday (in order to cause the 
UN to expire at the discovery of
Space Flight - as a practical joke for my wife who never fails to build the 
UN).
I came across an entry for the advancement Plumbing - which was never 
finally included in Civ2 but
is in there - I expect that the designers were planning on making it a 
prerequisite for allowing setttlers to irrigate.
The prerequisites for Plumbing were to be Pottery and Construction.

Maybe Plumbing could be included as a prerequisite advance for your 
terraforming unit, which would perform irrigation.
Robaire.