[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Thoughts about corruption

[Daniel Sjölie <deepone@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2001-11-26 23:33:52, Mike Jing wrote:
> Actually, the real purpose of having corruption and waste in civ is not for 
> historical accuracy, but as a tool for balancing between different forms of 
> government as well as between large and small empires.  In the latter role, 
> distance from capital is used as a reasonable if not entirely accurate 
> measure of empire size.  If the distance factor is taken away, then some 
> other measure of empire size, such as number of cities, will have to be 
> used, with the lose of "realism".

Right...
I'd just like to add my vote for using distance computed in a bit
smarter way... Travel distance should be simple enough and I really
think it would be a step in the right direction...
A modification to this that I find interesting would be to give
penalties for going through cities... This could be motivated as passing
through a city means the corruption in that city takes a bite and it
should force small-pox players to deal with corruption...
The simplest way to do this might be to not count (rail)roads in cities
when calculating corruption distance but there might be better ways...

/Daniel

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