[Freeciv-Dev] Re: freeciv feedback (was: Nice article about Freeciv in O'Reilly Network)

[Raahul Kumar <raahul_da_man@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Raimar Falke <hawk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 08:18:50AM +0000, Jules Bean wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 02:05:56AM +0500, Jason Short wrote:
> > > On Thu, 22 Nov 2001, Miguel Farah F. wrote:
> > > 
> > >  > There's a nice article about Freeciv in the O'Reilly Network. Go check
> > >  > it out:
> > > 
> > > At the end of the article it says:
> > > 
> > > "It being one of the more successful projects in the open source
> > > community,  one would think after being in such active development for so
> > > long that Freeciv might rival its commercially-sold counterparts in
> > > quality and features. It does not, and similar strategy titles like
> > > Civilization II and Alpha Centauri clearly have slicker user interfaces,
> > > smarter AI, and generally better gameplay overall."
> > > 
> > > I think, and I believe most developers agree with me, that FreeCiv has a
> > > much better user interface than old Civ games (certainly CivI/CivII and
> > > arguably SMAC).

Far more customisable by our standards.
  The gameplay is, AFAICT, identical.  And FreeCiv's AI
> > > isn't that bad - it can certainly frustrate beginners.
> >

No diplomacy, no senate, does not handle aircraft/cruise missiles. I still
agree with you though. The AI is hardly bad.
 
> > Yes.  The author doesn't mean quite what he says.
> > 
> > By 'slicker user interfaces', he means 'better graphics'.

'Better graphics". I'm playing with the civ 2 tileset. How does Civ 2
have better graphics than Freeciv?

> > By 'better gameplay overall', he means 'better graphics and sound'.
> >

We have sound? 
> > Actually, freeciv has a good UI: more powerful than the Civ II UI, and
> > generally rather good. It just hasn't been rendered in pseudo-3D ;-(
> 
> > (perhaps the freeciv UI isn't as well documented, so he might not even 
> > realise about several features..)
> 
> Ack. We should add some tool tips to the clients.
> 
>       Raimar

We need an interactive tutorial kind of like what civ 2 had. It showed the
basic stuff like founding a city, how to build the first unit and how
to set stuff to research.


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