[Freeciv-Dev] Re: suggestion

[Thanasis Kinias <tkinias@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

scripsit Peter Panov:
> Idea/Suggestion:
> Restructuring of City structure.
> 
> Description:
> Instead of each terrain square having just food, prod, and trade, it 
> would be like this;
> Each square has a food value and a resource such as coal, lumber, 
> different ores, Oil.

The problem with such a setup is that the valuable resources change as
tech changes.  For example, petroleum was pretty useless five hundred
years ago, not to mention uranium.  OTOH, quarried stone for
construction isn't nearly as important as it once was, because concrete
and steel have replaced stone.

A good economic model should account for these changes, but unless it
does I wouldn't waste too much effort tracking individual resources --
it would just sit wrong to be worrying about molybdenum production
before I'd mastered Bronzeworking.

-- 
Thanasis Kinias
Web Developer, Information Technology
Graduate Student, Department of History
Arizona State University
Tempe, Arizona, U.S.A.

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