[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Does Womans Suffrage actualyl work?

[Jason Short <jshort@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mark Metson wrote:
> I keep getting the impression that Womans Suffrage isn't working. That was 
> in the 1.13 that came with RedHat 8.0 but also in the 1.14 beta (not the 
> 1.14.1 just announced since that isnt in RPM form yet that I know if so I 
> cannot try it yet).
> I have not rigorously examined this, maybe it just silently gives the 
> benefit without mentioning it? I dont see it listed on the wonders line of 
> the happiness display in the city management window. It is mentioning my 
> cure for cancer and my Bach's Cathedral but it never says a word about the 
> Suffrage. It seems like it just isn't applying it? It seems to me it used 
> to work on my own machine with whatever version I used to use there, but 
> ever since I started using this box - the household router box - both with 
> the default 1.13 that came with RedHat 8.0 and with this 1.14 beta that I 
> finally got working, I have never seen any noticable effect from the 
> Suffrage Wonder. And I always build it. Its one of the ones the AI seems 
> either to never be serious about building (just pretending its going to 
> but never finishing it) or maybe just one of the ones I try harder to get 
> than it does. Hmmm. This 1.14 eta managed to complete Shakespear's whereas 
> the 1.13 never seemed to ever finish that, I would get way ahead, get my 
> dam and suffrage, and even when I finally went for medicine to get my 
> sewer systems and cure for cancer it still would not have ever actually 
> bothered to complete its theatre so I'd end up grabbing that too. But the 
> 1.14 does complete it.
> Maybe it never bothered with suffrage because unlike me it already knew 
> the thing doesn't work? :)
It definitely works.  There is nothing to show up in the happiness 
display because this wonder just causes previous unhappiness effects 
(unhappiness of military units in the field) to simply disappear [1]. 
To see this in action compare two cities with and without police stations.
[1] It would probably be trivial to implement it the other way: have the 
workers still give unhappiness, but have the wonder provide additional 
happiness at an equivalent rate.  This doesn't really seem worthwhile, 
but...
jason