[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#11566) Stealing techs penalty

["Per I. Mathisen" <per@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11566 >

On Sat, 18 Dec 2004, Mike Jing wrote:
> > [chrisk - Sat Dec 18 18:21:51 2004]:
> > > suggest new parameter - if you get a city with any unit(horse,warrior
> > > etc) - I mean if you conquere it and if the enemy know any techs you
> > > havent reseached yet, you will get one for sure. I suggest that it
> > > should be probable only.
> >
> > Yes, this is already adressed with the conquercost option. You don't
> > think it's enough?
>
> It's a bit different.Currently, when you conquer a city, you are
> guaranteed a free tech if the enemy has a tech you haven't yet
> researched.He is suggesting making it a bit more random, with the
> probability controlled by a server variable.

I am for such a ruleset or server option, since it allows modpacks to
disable tech theft (chance=0%). However, I do not want it to be random in
the default rules.

  - Per