[Freeciv-Dev] (PR#7047) Re: ics

["Arnstein Lindgard" <a-l@xxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=7047 >

On Fri, 5 Dec 2003 13:16:39 +0000 (GMT) Per I. Mathisen wrote:

> Yet that was exactly what Civ 3 did - messing with petty game variables
> (two pop instead of one, more corruption, etc). And failed. I was still
> playing ICS in Civ 3. Worked great. But the messing they did to the game
> destroyed it - it became slow and boring.

I don't readily believe you. I don't see how you can win a full
length Civ3 game with ICS. It has some limited use in the beginning
phase in certain game setups where early war is possible.

I agree it's boring, and certainly slow, but apparantly there are a
million people who like the "romantic game style".

A lot of work has gone into things like worklists, CMA, generalized
improvements. I would have thought that the coders who worked so hard
would like to see their features put to use for the purpose of
winning this great multiplayer game.


Arnstein