[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Deferred patches

[Ben Webb <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 10:51:17AM +0000, Per I. Mathisen wrote:
> On 15 Jul 2002, Davide Pagnin wrote:
> > 3. Corruption-handling (Civ II compliance - and more)
> > http://arch.freeciv.org/freeciv-dev-200206/msg00191.html
> > In a city with a courthouse, it is possible to have more than 50% of
> > corruption, unlike civ II, the patch corrects this behavior, and changes
> > also how other modifier to corruption are handled so that it is easier
> > to understand how they work.
> 
> Gen. impr. should be extended to implement both cases.

        Well, it's not on my todo list. ;) I'm not about to run off and
write the code, but I'm happy to discuss the issues with anybody that's
interested in doing this. For a start, I guess you'd have to add extra
effects to account for the distance modifiers - the existing effects
only act on the final corruption value (since they're designed to mimic
the effect of the Courthouse).

> > 5. corruption-param (Civ II Compliance)
> > http://arch.freeciv.org/freeciv-dev-200206/msg00360.html
> > In the civ II rules, republic has less corruption than monarchy, so a
> > modification of the civ II ruleset of freeciv is needed, also other
> > government like communism and fundamentalism need a correction.
> >
> The patch is ok. The issue you raise of unbribable vs no corruption should
> be fixed, but please look into Ben's efforts to generalise governments
> first.

        I haven't really touched on this particular issue in either the
impr-gen or FreecivAC compound government patches, but it sounds like
there could be bits of my code that may be useful. Certainly for SMAC
mode some kind of bribe cost modifier effect would be necessary (this is
the SMAC "probe" rating, IIRC). Watch this space.

        Ben
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