[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Is the city names patch good?

["Mike Jing" <miky40@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tony Stuckey <stuckey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 06:11:19PM -0500, Mike Jing wrote:
> > Well, some players deliberately hide their capital through obscure city
> > naming, e.g. duplicate city names.  I very much prefer the way it is in
> > Civ3, where it is impossible to hide your capital at all as it is 
> clearly
> > visible on the map.  Also, civil war should be dropped as losing your
> > capital is enough of a blow in itself.  Also, if you lose your captical 
> to
> > an opponent, it should be automatcally relocated to one of your 
> remaining
> > cities (Isn't someone working on a patch to do just that?).
>
>         Enough of a blow in what sense?
In the sense that as your first city, the capital is probably a well 
developed city (not that any city is that well developed in a typical 
smallpox game) and thus quite important even without the threat of civil 
war.
>         You should protect it more properly.
True, but I just feel it is not necessary to attach that much weight to the 
capital as it was done in Civ2, and apparently this has been changed in 
Civ3.
Mike



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