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

[Marek "Baczek" Baczyński <imbaczek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 03-12-18 you wrote:

> I propose that there should be a new directory in freeciv called 
> experimental, which is basically exactly that.  It should have a far
> lower threshhold for making a change as compared to default.  
> For example, the proposed worker unit should have gone into experimental
> almost as soon as it was proposed, since it makes an interesting change.

I'm all for this idea, if it's going to be the default at at least one
pubserver. Otherwise, there's simply no point trying.

Also, the players should be encouraged to try it out.

> If there is any interest in this, I can work up a experimental data directory
> patch that takes the default data, combines in longturn's changes, a worker
> unit, and other changes that I think I can at least justify as being
> interesting.

I suggest incresing costs of mid- to endgame units around 2-8 times,
and/or making some units factory/mfg/barracks dependent and reducing
foodbox sizes a'la civ3 (the generic foodbox is ready, don't know if
it's in CVS) as a good start.

Also, I dare to suggest changes in how marketplaces, banks and stock
exchanges work: for each citizen in a city, a city should recieve
bonus gold as follows:

1 impr | 2 impr | 3 impr | where impr is any of {market, bank, stock}
---------------------------------------------------------------------
 1/2   |   1    |   2    | gold per citizen

So a city of size 4 with 3 a marketplace and a stock exchange would
get 4 bonus gold. Something similar could be done with
production/research facilities (if an early availible production
facility, such as blacksmith, was added.)

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