[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#8890) Removal of free city center

["Jason Short" <jdorje@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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James Canete wrote:
> <URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8890 >
> 
> I could try removing the huge food bonus, as of version 5 of this patch
> the food bonus is just a side effect of me raising the minimum food
> production of the city center (in the ruleset) to 4, so I could get rid
> of the bonus out-of-nowhere food.
> 
> Changing it to 2 isn't a good option, as it would mean a city would need
> to have a 3 food tile somewhere around it just so it would be able to grow.
> 
> 3 is an option, but it would mean any city would take 20 turns to grow.
> 
> Or I could put back in the bonus out-of-nowhere food, perhaps reduced to
> 1 food.
> 
> I think this patch is best played with a fixed-size foodbox of say 20. 
> The workers might also help if the minimum city center food production
> is 2, since they can find a tile and irrigate it up to 3.

I believe the "bonus" food is bogus.  Instead the food of each tile 
should be raised

   Grassland: 3 food
   Plains: 2 food

with corresponding changes to the specials.  However the problem with 
this is that it depends too heavily on a non-despotism government.  As 
soon as you switch to monarchy all your cities get an extra +3 food or 
so and you have a huge population explosion.  But until you get to 
monarchy it is very difficult even to get a size 2 city.

jason