[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#12638) Remove reputation from the game

["Jason Short" <jdorje@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=12638 >

Per I. Mathisen wrote:

>>Back to reputation, without reputation there cannot be a senate, without
>>senate no anarchy, without anarchy not concept of peace and war.
> 
> This is totally wrong. The senate after removing reputation is _much_ more
> powerful. Now nobody will not know about the senate existing. Try to
> declare unjust war with Republic and you will be thrown right into
> anarchy.

I don't understand why senate actions depend on reputation anyway.  From 
a realism perspective it makes little sense, and from a gameplay 
perspective reputation is just an arbitrary arcane number.

-jason