[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Thoughts about corruption

["Mike Jing" <miky40@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I think it's a great idea.  I like the idea of transportation infrastructure 
helps to reduce corruption.  But I also want to point out there should be a 
minimum amount of corruption that can't be reduced any further no matter how 
fast you can get from here to there, so that even teleport won't magically 
reduce any corruption to zero.  It is also realistic that you can't 
eliminate corruption altogether, so there will be corruption even in your 
capital, although most likely it will be very small.  As for railroads, we 
can just assign it a reasonable number for this purpose.
Mike

Kevin Brown <kevin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> But corruption is really just an expression of how much a city will
> deviate from the ruler's wishes (and, in the case of production, how
> much of the economic value of said production winds up in the hands of
> the corrupt local rulers instead of where you, the supreme ruler, wish
> it to go).
>
> The distance of the city from the ruling capital is a very rough
> approximation of how this effect plays out in real life, but I think
> we can do better.  In real life, the thing that would really matter
> isn't distance on the map but how easily you can get good intelligence
> about the situation in the remote region and how easily you can
> project military might over that distance, both of which depend mostly
> on the speed of your transportation infrastructure between you and the
> remote region.
>
> So it seems to me that the corruption value should be determined by
> how long it would take someone to get from your capital to the target
> city.  And hence one way to reduce corruption in a remote location
> would be to build transporation infrastructure between the capital and
> the remote location.
>
> Note that this has certain implications with respect to various modes
> of transporation, rail in particular.  It becomes a lot more important
> for the movement values of various transporation mechanisms to be
> fairly realistic, at least relative to each other.  So walking gets
> you a couple of squares per turn, riding a horse gets you twice that,
> the rail gets you twice that of horse, and flying gets you perhaps 5
> times that of rail.
>
>
> Thoughts?
>
>
> --
> Kevin Brown                                           kevin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>     It's really hard to define what "unexpected behavior" means when 
> you're
>                        talking about Windows.
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