[Freeciv-Dev] Re: suggestion

[Kenn Munro <kenn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This reminds me of one of my peeves.. that an offshore platform gives
one extra prod for each ocean square.  It can make a big difference in
the game once someone reaches that tech and can buy a few offshore
platforms.  I usually stop playing the AI at that point for lack of
challenge.

A more realistic way of handling it would be to have random "oil" tiles
on the ocean.  A certain technology would be required to even see them
on the map, because they would be far under the ocean and a civilization
would need to be able to drill down to find them.  When they have that
tech, a city improvement could be built in order to gain a certain
production bonus from any offshore oil tiles.  It could make it more
realistic (not every ocean city has offshore oil reserves) and lessen
the impact of offshore platforms.

But.. possibly too far a stretch from traditional Civ II rules.

Kenn


On Wed, 2002-05-29 at 16:36, Thanasis Kinias wrote:
> 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.
> 
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