[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#4539) rules against smallpox (tutorials/nopox page)

["Mike Kaufman" <kaufman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 07:48:12AM -0700, Guest wrote:
> 
> I like the suggestions for civil war et al.
> 
> By the way, ICS isn't so bad when you're playing with 29 AI players
> intent on killing you.  I can barely hold on to one or two cities in
> those circumstances.  The AI does it anyway, but it loses (well, 28 of
> them lose, and a lucky one survives).  In other words, if you fill the
> world up with loads and loads of players, no one can sprawl much.  This
> argues for raising the 30-player ceiling.  
> 
> I'd _love_ to have a world with 100+ players (mostly AI), and difficulty
> keeping my country together -- especially with the new AI diplomacy.

I might accept a patch for this, but I warn you, that it will not be
trivial. In fact it will be fiendishly complicated. It will also make
savegames a nightmare.

-mike