[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#20385) [PATCH] Make EFT_EMPIRE_SIZE_STEP optional per-game

["Jason Dorje Short" <jdorje@xxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20385 >

Petr Baudis wrote:
> <URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20385 >
> 
>   Hi,
> 
>   this patch makes EFT_EMPIRE_SIZE_STEP optional. The unhappiness
> induced by size step is a new addition which wasn't present in 2.0 and
> for me personally, it significantly ruins the gameplay - I like to build
> empires with many tens of cities and with this, that quickly gets nearly
> unplayable without massive luxury rates or spending plenty of money (and
> player time!) making sure a temple is built immediately in all new
> cities.
> 
>   One solution would be to clone the ruleset and disable
> EFT_EMPIRE_SIZE_STEP there, which is what I originally did, but that's
> something non-hacker players can't/won't do, and it is quite painful to
> maintain that across freeciv updates or if you want to play over the
> network.

I'm pretty positive the empire size step was always present.

And, wouldn't a better choice just be to set EFT_EMPIRE_SIZE_STEP really 
large?

-jason