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

["Jason Short" <jdorje@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Marko Lindqvist wrote:
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> Mike Jing wrote:
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>>>[glip - Tue Aug 10 10:32:35 2004]:
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>>>But only to units that are away from home.
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>>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.
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>   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.

Any per-city bonus will only favor smallpox.  If it is a per-citizen 
bonus (one free unit per 5 citizens?) then it is more fair.

jason