[Freeciv-Dev] Re: rfc: default production

[Christian Knoke <chrisk@xxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 12:06:34PM -0500, Anthony J. Stuckey wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 06:42:40PM +0200, Christian Knoke wrote:
> > Maybe I misunderstand you, but: there is no penalty (and no problem)
> > in the first turn (after completion). The problem arises in the turns
> > after the first. There is a penalty (and should be IMHO). So it is not
> > sufficient to put the default production to coinage. - This is not for
> > expert players or ai clients, but is very much required to protect the 
> > user from herself (unexpierienced, forgetful, stressed).
> 
>       I see what we do already as meeting in the middle.  So if you want a
> solution that requires significant infrastructure (and frankly, even adding
> a "last item != coinage produced here" field into the city structure is
> "significant infrastructure") you really need to justify it more strongly.

I don't want any new infrastructure, I only want to keep what we have now.
Per is who wants to change it :)

>       Not allowing carryover at all was deemed to promote stupid fiddling
> with worker layout to limit your loss.  So we added carryover of shields.

ACK.

> If it really takes you more than a turn to figure out that you should be
> doing something different, IMHO, the proper response is "pay more
> attention".  

I may be a rather weak player, but this is exactly what happens very 
often in my games, esp. in net games.

> If it's a case of poor conjunction between finishing what you
> are producing now and learning a new tech that gives you a new item to
> produce, there's already a solution to that -- find something else in that
> class (unit, building, or wonder) and start producing it, then switch.

ACK

Christian

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