[Freeciv-Dev] Re: buying cities

[Andy Smith <andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 01:16:42PM -0400, Mark Metson wrote:
> I do think cities seem too cheap. I bought one for 177 that
> includes a port facility I was able to sell for 80, and it had at
> least one unit included too. I bought several for maybe about 175
> to 450 that had eight or more riflemen+apline troops in them, just
> one apline troop alone starting from scratch would have cost more
> than that. So even just to get units they are a bargain let alone
> often getting a city complete with city walls for less than the
> 150 or so it would cost to build city walls having already at
> least tokenly started building city walls.

I think I would call it a bug to be able to buy a city for less than
the combined sale value of all improvements within it, what do you
think?

Not so sure about the combined value of units, since units seem
fairly expensive to bribe by themselves, and they're not so valuable
to disband.