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

[Christian Knoke <chrisk@xxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 09:02:42PM +0000, Per I. Mathisen wrote:
> On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Joona Kiiski wrote:
> > All these issues can be easily fixed, if you use "shield_stock" instead of
> > "before_change_shields" in your patch, but of course then when changing
> > from unit or wonder to coinage 50% penalty gets applied.
> > If penalty is not what you want, then to do this properly requires that we
> > add in production system new type: TYPE_COINAGE
> 
> I don't see why it should be unreasonable to apply a 50% penalty.

The idea for introducing coinage was, to help micromanagement, that is,
having the same output as when building a temple and selling it at 
once; that is 40 shields for 40 gold.

Think now, you forgot to switch to coinage after a building is finished.
You go the old way because you don't want to loose shields.

You gain nothing when you switch to coinage *without* penalty, it just
makes life a bit easier.

I would apply no penalty. Caravan and disbanded unit shields also shouldn't
get lost.

Christian

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