[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#9589) Patch: Government rebalancing

["Marko Lindqvist" <marko.lindqvist@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Mike Jing wrote:
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>>[glip - Tue Aug 10 10:32:35 2004]:
>>
>>But only to units that are away from home.
> 
> For unhappiness, yes.  But the purpose of a gold upkeep is to partially
> offset the benifit of the tile trade bonus, regardless of war or peace.
> 

  We should allow one unit / city for defense without additional 
(compared to present) costs by setting unit_free_gold=1. Only if one is 
building massive armies under rep/dem should gold upkeep jump in. Maybe 
make it even unit_free_gold=2 in order not to be too harsh... 
playtesting required.

>>[jdorje - Tue Aug 10 16:09:38 2004]:
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>>Wouldn't changing all units to have a gold rather than shield upkeep 
>>solve the problem?
> 
> As I mentioned, my reason for the gold upkeep is to make Rep/Dem less
> powerful, so it would work if you set unit_gold_factor to 2 for Rep/Dem
> and 1 for everything else, i.e. charge twice as much for Rep/Dem.  Of
> course, this has the side effect of making war easier since production
> is no longer eroded by unit upkeep, which may or may not be desirable.

  We have to keep shield upkeep too. One of the main advantages for 
monarchy/communism in war is that they get units without shield upkeep 
(communims can have 3 units/city more than republic). We should not give 
this benefit to republic.
  I'd suggest setting unit_gold_factor=0 for most governments, but 1 for 
republic and democracy. Then make uk_gold=1 for all military units (or 
only to offensive ones?) So there would be no changes for 
despotism/monarchy/communism but gold upkeep would be introduced to 
republic/democracy.


   - Caz