[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Civ 2 style luxury cap (PR#1437)

[Reinier Post <rp@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 07:31:56AM -0700, Raahul Kumar wrote:
> 
> --- "Per I. Mathisen" <Per.Inge.Mathisen@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Mon, 6 May 2002, Raahul Kumar wrote:
> > > This is a continuation of Davide and Mike Jings work. Civ 2 had a cap on
> > > luxuries, preventing large cities from enjoying more than 2 * their city
> > size
> > > in luxury.
> > 
> > I want some arguments on why this is a good thing. Looks like a bad hack
> > to me.
> 
> The totality of my argument is that Civ 2 did it this way.

Which suffices, with the drawback that it doesn't help the Freeciv mode.

> Now as to the hack
> bit. If you're talking about my implementation, how would you prefer to see me
> implement it?

The usual way in Freeciv is to introduce a server/ruleset
variable "luxurycap".  (Even if Civ II behaviour was actually desirable,
it's a good idea to make arbitrary cutoff points configurable.)

There"s another ugly hack in the code called the "civstyle" variable.
If doing a whole new variable just for this change seems overkill to you
you can use this one.

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Reinier