[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#3735) Zulu (Shaka) gets a free capital when Catalan (Jefe) conquers its capital

["ChrisK@xxxxxxxx" <ChrisK@xxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 12:58:33AM -0800, Guest wrote:
> [glip - Tue Apr  1 18:46:21 2003]:
> > > [guest - Sun Mar 23 09:33:31 2003]:
> > > 

> > AFAIK the "always free palace" happens only if
> > 1. savepalace is enabled
> > 2. the nation is not able to build palace themselves (i.e. doesn't have 
> > the required tech)

I was thinking savepalace=1 means you always get a new palace if the capital
is lost.

Help also says so:

Option: savepalace  -  Rebuild palace if capital is conquered
Description:
  If this is set to 1 when the capital is conquered, palace is automatically
  rebuilt for free in another randomly choosed city, regardless on the
  knowledge of Masonry.

So I take this that you always have a city w/ palace.

But consider these:

1) I recently started a game and lost all my cities very soon. My explorer
then discovered a city in a hut, so my nation continued to exist - without
a palace.

2) When you sell your palace you do not get a new one, which is probably
ok. But what happens when your palace is sold due to lack of Gold?

And an unrelated question, just comes to mind: what is the use of a palace
in a democracy? There is no corruption anyway, but if you don't have a
capital, it cannot be conquered ;) What am I missing?

> When I rapidly checked both code and civserver help I didn't see any
> evidence of this tech specific restriction.
> 
> I didn't find information with a quick look at the online docs.
> 
> Can anybody explain how this is supposed to work or where this is
> really documented ?
> 
> J.

Christian

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