[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Forking code. (Re: (PR#5122) Building requirement for techs)

["Per I. Mathisen" <per@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Lobo Gris wrote:
> In the concrete case of materials, the default game is a special case in
> the sense that has only one material, named "Shield", but I have faced
> with a feature in freeciv that makes me fork the code: In freeciv, you
> can change the city production, and part of the shield stock of the old
> production goes to the shield stock of the new one (in the case of
> wonders, the total is transferred).

Actually, the total is transferred as long as you don't change production
category, of which there are three: units, buildings and wonders.

> Also, in freeciv you can build units by buying them with gold. Both
> features can't be part of a game based in materials, because other way
> you can cheat the game, producing units or buildings that normally you
> can't produce because you has not available a specific material to need
> them.

I don't see why. If you can't produce it, then it should not be an option
neither for next production item nor for buying.

This may be part of a wider issue, that of getting holds of units that you
should not be able to use, through various means, as this would violate a
modpack's rules. See eg PR#2405.

> The key of a game based in different materials is that there are
> strategical map positions due to the existence of a resource of a given
> material, so you must trade with other players in order to get a
> material you does not produce, or may be you are pushed to conquer that
> positions and defend them from the others, or may be... This feature
> gives a lot of new interesting possibilities.

Sounds like the Civ3 trade model. I do not see why this cannot be
implemented in Freeciv.

  - Per

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