[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#11014) Problems with diplomats

["Jason Short" <jdorje@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Mateusz Stefek wrote:
> <URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11014 >
> 
>>[jorneg@xxxxxxxxxxx - Sun Nov 14 17:38:31 2004]:
>>
>>
>>    I see two bugs:
>>
>>    * I was playing with the beta3 and just buy a city of size 1 with a 
>>diplomat for 72 coins. But the surprise was maximun when i open the city 
>>and i see there are 12 alpine troops. I thought that the low cost of an 
>>incite was resolved with the new method for calculating the cost of a
> 
> city!
> 
> incite_cost.unit_factor should be larger IMO.
> I've done some calculation and find out that 12 alpine troops makes the
> city only 60% more expensive.
> 
> Would anyone mind me changing the value to 2?
> (im not sure what should be in civ1/civ2/history)

History, at least, should follow the default ruleset unless there's a 
reason not to.

> Anyway it is stupid that it is cheaper to buy a unit with a city than to
> buy it without a city. :)

How are calculations for bribe cost of a unit computed?  Why don't we 
just farm out the work to the unit-bribe-cost calculator and just add on 
the cost for the unit when calculating the cost for the city it's in?

jason