[Freeciv] Re: FreeCiv FAQ question suggestion

[LucFrench@xxxxxxx]

In a message dated 6/30/99 2:47:55 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
brunel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
>> What I mean by this is that this should be explicitly spelled out, along 
with 
>> the whys and hows, either in the FAQ, or in an easy to find spot on the 
site.
>
>Reinier will add a new entry in the FAQ concerning your question.

Thanks. A link to http://www.freeciv.org/manual/game-21.html (Differences 
between Civ2 and FreeCiv) would be nice. And now, for the meat of this email:

>> I'd be especially interested in knowing what the capacities of the "rule" 
>> files are; can you achieve Civ2-like Scenarios with events that happen if 
a 
>> city is captured, on a particular turn, etc.?
>  
>  The main difficulty here is that amonst us lot of people hasn't played
>  civ2. If you have some time, read the freeciv manual.

Will do. But what I mean by Civ 2 style scenarios is a programmable set of 
events; for example, if a particular city is captured, then the guy capturing 
it gets an extra tech. Or, on a particular turn, you (the scenario designer) 
can cause a particular region to collapse beneath the sea. (They implemented 
an Atlantis scenario this way.) If you want, I can rummage through Usenet to 
find a post I made for the FreeMoM guy about this.

As for Alpha Centauri, the big thing is a new unit setup. There are two 
methods of attack; psi, and physical. Psi combat always has the same 
attack/defend value, 3/2, unless this is on water, in which case it's 1/1. 
Physical combat is what's really interesting: you can design a unit from what 
you've got. For example, you can equip a unit with lasers and ultra armor on 
an infantry "chassy", for a 2/12/1 unit; or you could put that on a speeder 
"chassy" for a 2/12/2 unit.

Both these would have to be implemented on the server side, as a Python or 
Guile interpreter. (My sympathies are with the former; I really dislike Lisp, 
but that's just me.) The client should be able to do something along the 
lines of TK, if you really want to make things interesting. This would allow 
an implementation of a real MoM clone (sans Tactical combat) in FreeCiv. 
(It'd require a large amount of tuning and restructuring of what is and isn't 
FreeCiv, but if it leads to a more generic program, I'm all for it.)

I can't speak for CTP; but you can find that on Linux, so it should be easier 
to respond to.

Thanks
Luc "(Turing) Completeness Counts" French