[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#2918) Changing from production to coinage

["ChrisK@xxxxxxxx via RT" <rt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 02:58:29PM -0800, ue80@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx via RT 
wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> > This is not a normal improvement.  Instead, setting a city's
> > production to Coinage means its shield production is converted to
> > tax output (money, coins!).  
> 
> i read it as: "all shields give coins now." 
> But in the current game the produced shields will disappear without
> giving gold (money). Think this should be updated in the server.

This is new to me, but I presume you're right, this is a bug and should be
fixed.

> Already
> produced shields should give some money (for example 2 shields 1 coin) 
> too.

Here I disagree. I think it was intended to have 1 shield = 1 coin.
We have introduced coinage to avoid micromanagement for cities =
building some improvements and then selling them when they're ready,
which gives 40 gold for a temple.

> Thomas

Christian

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