[Freeciv-Dev] Re: [Freeciv] empty treasury and negative income

[Jason Dorje Short <jdorje@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Per Inge Mathisen wrote:

> I think one (partial) solution to early game boredom might be Moo2-like
> points purchase of starting conditions. The player may spend a certain
> amount of points on purchasing starting units, techs, gold, extra map
> knowledge, government other than default...
>
> Another idea is to lower the requirements of some options. I do not see
> why we should keep the city size limitation on specialists, for example.
> Perhaps workers should be without tech requirement. Something along those
> lines.
Removing the tech req on workers would make them very useful.

Another thing Moo2 had was it allowed you to choose the starting tech 
level - pre-warp, regular, or advanced.  If you chose pre-warp then, 
indeed, the first 25 turns would be spent doing nothing but building 
your first colony ship and researching the pre-req techs.
For freeciv, I'd say the techlevel parameter would be okay if it gave 
the *same* techs to everyone - or maybe if it just gave everyone a 
certain number of bulbs that they could spend.  Only problem is that the 
current tech-choosing interface would probably choose for you if you 
didn't immediately pick your tech.
-jason