[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Fixing ICS (simply)

["Brandon J. Van Every" <vanevery@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Per I. Mathisen
> On 18 Dec 2003, Hellen Claggett wrote:
> >
> > If I ever get the time (after New Years earliest), I'd like
> > to try to
> > create a patch to play test this proposal (removing free terrain
> > improvements) to see how it impacts the ICS strategy.
>
> Wouldn't this make terrain specials a lot more important,

Yes.

> making
> the random starting position more determining for who wins the game?

How do you figure?  As is, terrain specials have a rather even
distribution.  The variance here is how big a land mass you start on,
and how many neighbors you have.  Those are already primary determinants
as it is.

> However, it may be time to look at the power of some of these specials
> anyway. Whales are much too good as they are.

The problem isn't that they're too good, the problem is that there are
too many of them.  Civ II just had some whales available some places
some times.  You've got them all over the place on every coast like some
kind of candy.  I can count on 1/2 of my cities to have whales, which is
silly.


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