[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#12283) New Improvement: Town Clock

["Paul Zastoupil" <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=12283 >

On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 06:07:06AM -0800, Per I. Mathisen wrote:
> 
> <URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=12283 >
> 
> On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Paul Zastoupil wrote:
> > I had a long discussion about time yesterday with a coworker.You're
> > probably not interested with the discussion, but later I was thinking
> > about it and rememberd that time keeping was asignificant civilizastion
> > advance.
> >
> > CTP had a town clock, and I think its a decent city improvement.
> >
> > I've got a prototype.It needs some massaging.
> >
> > Basically it adds 25% prod, and 33% tax, science, luxury.
> >
> > People are more productive when they can agree on when to meet, how long
> > something will take, etc.
> 
> effect_clock_1 is used twice. I guess the second time it should be
> effect_clock_2.

Duh... sorry.

> 
> It is not a bad theme. However, it does look like a solution in search of
> a problem ;)

Only partly so.  The more beneficial buildings there are, the less small
pox has an advantage over large cities.

> 
> We should not add game mechanics like this because they sound cool, but
> because they fill a need. Right now we need an early production booster,
> and this would come too late in the tech tree, I think, to fill this need.

Ok, this is a problem.  Should we make it depend on an earlier tech,
or scrap it and start with something new?

> 
> The building would also seem rather outdated in modern civs, and the
> effects should be more concentrated on one benefits.

This is sort of built into the bonuses as Jason pointed out to me.
Since its an additive percentage, as the game gets older its effects
are weakened.  The numbers haven't even really been playtested.

> 
> > Attached is a diff and derived art (under GFDL 
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Big_ben_clock_tower.jpg)
> 
> GFDL is not GPL compatible, though, so we would have to put this in a
> separate PNG. A rather annoying oversight on behalf of the FSF.

Yes, Jason also pointed this out to me.  I could easily come up with a
new graphic as well.  But without any hope of inclusion there is no point.


-- 
Paul Zastoupil