[Freeciv-Dev] (PR#11879) researchspeed & -cost

["Sami Takanen" <stakanen@xxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11879 >

First, Thank you very much for a great game! It's almost all I play :)

I like the new way of handling research where researchcost depends on the 
quality of the technology. It is far more realistic. But few issues arise:

1. Research Speed in Demography
- Not exactly a bug, but a nuisance:

Should the Research Speed in Demography be shown in "pts/turn" instead of 
percentage, because the speed changes a lot depending on what you research.

2. Researchcost -option default value

Also should the default value for researchcost -option be a bit higher thank 
10? (I use value 50 in a game against AI, and it seems realistic, muskets and 
cannons in year 1600)

I am using 2.0.0 beta6

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(off topic)

Also, not bugs but a features I personally would like to see. (maybe version 
2.1?) :)

1. Fair Trade evaluation

Some kind of evaluation for diplomatic exchange and an option to force it, 
would be great. By this I mean that some flag shows if the current diplomatic 
action is fair. And an option for forcing only fair trade. (We had a 24h 
turnblocking game where we agreed not to trade technology because of possible 
tech-alliances between RL friends. Would be nice to have this in in-game 
mechanics)

For Example:
- gold value per lightbulb of the traded techs
- gold value for city size
- gold value for city improvements
- gold value for units (I know it isn't implemented, but one can hope ;))
- gold value for maps (per new unmapped square)


2. Yearadvance

Because researchspeed is adjustable, it would be great to have "yearadvance" 
-option also. Maybe just few alternative options for how the years advance. 
This way you could have massive wars with just knights and catapults and such 
without the progress changing them to rifles and tanks in one war :) Would be 
great for a massive historic online game.

Most basic implementation would be to scale the current yearadvance method to 
match researchcost.

For Example
1. default: 100 years -> 50 years -> 10 years -> 5 years (?)
2. Slow: 50 years -> 10 years -> 5 years -> 1 year (?)
3. Static: 1 year
4. Automatic: scaled from researchcost

Best Regards and Sorry for the long (partially off-topic) post,
Sami Takanen
stakanen@xxxxxxxxxx

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