[Freeciv-Dev] (PR#7225) One free aggressive unit in Republic?

["Mark Metson" <markm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=7225 >


I, I hope this is the right address for freeciv-dev, for some reason the 
mails labelled [freeciv-dev] are showing rt as the reply address and I am 
using reply to send this.

I am using 1.14.1 on Redhat 8.0, installed from the RPM.

I am a republic, with no happiness worders (I only have the Colossus, 
which I dont usually build but desperately needed in order to reach 
republic with researchcost set to 50).

I am noticing that when I move chariots out of cities, they are not 
showing up with an unhappy face on their home city city-screen, and not 
causing unhappiness in their homecity. Not all of the chariots do this, so 
it looks like maybe I am allowed one free aggressive unit per city???

If I move out a second unit, then I get the unhappiness.

I cannot find anything in the docs that mentions allowing one free 
aggressive unit per city under a Republic? Is that normal? (Bug or 
feature???)

By the way, I am trying to find a good level of researchcost higher than 
the default. I am finding that 50 is insane because despotism is really 
really really pathetic. Even building the colossus in my capital and using 
settlers from everywhere to max the cities near my capital it was still 
pathetic. I am thinking maybe it might be necessary, if one really wants 
to use hiugh researchcost, to adjust the penalties of despotisms slightly. 
I am wondering whether despotism is worse in the default ruleset than it 
was in, say, civ-I ???

I am also findign that the ability to buold coinage is essential, again 
due to having to remain in despotism so long and despotism being so very 
lousy. How balanced is despotism really? Does it have to be this lousy 
just to prevent its advantage of number of units supported from being too 
overpowering later on in the game when maybe some people might find it 
useful to wwitch to despotism in orer to carry out a war? Does anyone 
actually do that? Or is despotism just plain crippled?

-MarkM-

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