[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Multiple buildings of a certain type per city

[Raimar Falke <hawk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 09:39:23PM +0000, Ben Webb wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Jörg Zuther wrote:
> 
> > Oops, a good example how communication can go wrong. I thought the
> > "(well, of course showing only the (non)existence)" would be clear
> > enough. You can have at most one building of each type per city -
> > sometimes even less (wonders, palace).
> 
>       Well, when writing the generalised improvements code, I did 
> consider putting in support for multiple buildings in a city, but decided 
> that it would be too complicated, and would possibly just end up confusing 
> the player.
> 
> > Again I'm of the opinion that one should think this carefully out:
> > Should cities become even more complex structures?
> 
> Please no. ;)
> 
> > If you can have multiple buildings of one type, then each type should 
> > have a maximum number that can be build per city. Or maybe these numbers 
> > should be influenced somehow by the growth of the city?
> 
>       I think the major problem at present is that some players don't 
> build city improvements at all, and so having support for multiple 
> buildings wouldn't enhance gameplay much. But I could be wrong.

I agree: the cost/possible benefit ratio is bad. You need to change a
lot of code and have no knowledge if this really improves the game
play.

        Raimar

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