[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Alternative nation dialog

[aliaga <aliaga@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 28-02-02 17:38 -0400, you wrote:
> Evidently I am not the only one to have wanted to go back before such
> technologies as Language and Culture. The globbing of too many techs into
> the one unit Settlers militates against that. Too many assumptions are
> being made arbitrarily in the way that unit is put together.
I once saw a beautiful modpack for Civ2 featuring Dinos against Mammalians, 
and another on Procaryots versus Eucaryots! These changed heavily 
everything in the default rules. Very interesting what could be achieved...

> I always heard it was the Arabs who came up with the Zero. Are you perhaps
> thinking of Moors?
Of course, in the great spanish-roman city of Toletum, where all those 
great thinkers labored in common for ages regardless of politics and 
religion, while the rest of Europe still pondered on the convenience of 
washing their hands before eating with their fingers...
Cheers