[Freeciv-Dev] (PR#10133) Cheating possibility: Establishing traderoutes

["Jason Short" <jdorje@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=10133 >

> [marko.lindqvist@xxxxxxxxxxx - Sat Sep 18 10:23:10 2004]:
> 
> Gregory Berkolaiko wrote:
> > I don't see why the described behaviour is cheating.  After all, you
> > waste a caravan, which costs 50 shields and some micromanagement time
> > too.  The bonus can be decreased but it should be there.
> 
>   How about cap for bonus, but not applied when both cities get 
> additional trade route? (ie both previously had < 4 trade routes) This 
> way we are not handicapping largepoxers in usual trade route creation, 
> but prevent people from abusing it.

A cap is okay.  It should probably be ruleset-defined.  0 means 0,
negative means no cap.  I'm not sure what the "default" cap should be.

>   And I'm not so sure that abuse really requires so much micromanagement 
> when done 'right'.

Well that's good.  Getting a large bonus from trading with caravans is
okay.  What's bad is getting a large bonus from boring micromanagement.

jason