[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#7021) fighting ICS (was: allies give all their techs for nothing)

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

<URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=7021 >

On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 09:57:36 -0800 imbaczek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> I think it's not a good idea. In fact it'll encourage smallpox/ics
> even more, as you *want* to have big cities (so you could build
> improvements in it and make much more than from the small ones) and
> this makes your bigger-than-average cities even bigger faster than
> any largepox player could manage.

Maybe that's a tuning issue. You can already use small cities to
pump settlers for "adding" to a big one.

I think the idea, seen as stand-alone, nicely addresses the fact
that smallpox is natural in the beginning phases.


Arnstein