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

["Brian Dunstan" <bdunstan149@xxxxxxxxx>]

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



--- Benoit Hudson <benoit.hudson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> <URL:
> http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=13845
> >
> 
> > So, if specialist production were counted as base
> 
> > trade for the purpose of trade route calculation,
> that
> > alone would give benefit to larger cities.
> 
> 
> 
> That increases smallpox: you'd access the bonus
> trade faster if you had lots 
> of small cities close together.

You still have to pay the 50 shield cost of the
initial caravan, and overcome the distance minimum for
domestic cities.

There's also a basic imbalance here: a size 21 city
with no specialists should get less trade route trade
than a size 35 city with 21 citizens and 14
gold-specialists



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