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

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

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

On Mon, 15 Dec 2003, Andy Smith wrote:
> > Maybe that's a tuning issue. You can already use small cities to
> > pump settlers for "adding" to a big one.
>
> If it is found to be very unbalanced to allow (for example) one
> population point from a size 2 city to take a size 10 city to size
> 11, then couldn't it just add the relevant amount of food to the
> foodbox?

This is a very good point. One of the reasons bigpox is very hard is the
growing foodbox, and adding settlers from a lot of smallpox cities to one
or two bigpox cities sidesteps this restriction. So a strategy to limit
smallpox cannot require only a few big cities, as this would only benefit
smallpox - instead big cities must have advantages that scale.

  - Per