[Freeciv] Re: Experience and questions after some games

[Steven Burnap <sburnap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 11:54 AM 2/25/00 +1100, you wrote:
> martin <martin.mcmahon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On 23-Feb-00, Jeff Mallatt wrote:
>
> > > Are you saying that you don't want any possibility of a bad outcome of
> > > entering a hut?
>
> > It all part of the risk in entering a hut you might get money ,you might be
> > killed .there has to be a down side in going into a hut say a 25%.
>
> I suggest that some setting make barbarians in huts behave like
> they used to: kill the unit, but don't actually generate any
> barbarian units.  That way there is a potential bad outcome
> (lose your unit), but not the possibility (at this hypothetical
> setting) of having your civilisation actually over-run by the
> barbarians.
Ah, but that was one of the good parts about Civ2.  It forced you to be careful
not to explore huts near undefended cities.

Steve