[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#13845) Increasing the appeal of very large cities

["Benoit Hudson" <benoit.hudson@xxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=13845 >

On 9/4/05, Antoine Bouchard <osyluth@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> I agree that giving free food out of the blue might not be great. And i 
> have
> refined the approach. Here is a new patch (still against 2.0.5) that has
> server settings included to fine tune. By default, it gives 2.5% X (pop 
> over
> 12) bonus to food, trade, and shield.


The game-balance reason to fear adding to food is that you could get runaway 
population growth. If a city produces 80 food, an extra population point 
produces 2 food, which produces an extra population point (in one turn under 
democracy), ... Under the default game settings, I've once or twice created 
such a behemoth. With non-default rulesets, you could trigger this fairly 
easily.

-- Benoît

On 9/4/05, Antoine Bouchard <osyluth@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I agree that giving free food out of the blue might not be great. And i have
refined the approach. Here is a new patch (still against 2.0.5) that has
server settings included to fine tune. By default, it gives 2.5% X (pop over
12) bonus to food, trade, and shield.

The game-balance reason to fear adding to food is that you could get
runaway population growth.  If a city produces 80 food, an extra
population point produces 2 food, which produces an extra population
point (in one turn under democracy), ...  Under the default game
settings, I've once or twice created such a behemoth.  With
non-default rulesets, you could trigger this fairly easily.

-- Benoît