[Freeciv] settler cost (was: "city grows to <same size>")

[Reinier Post <rp@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Apr 28, 2000 at 10:31:46PM -0400, Michael Richardson wrote:
> >>>>> "Alan" == Alan Kelm <akelm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>     Alan> When a city granary fills up, a new citizen should appear in the
>     Alan> city.  At times, however, when my city already has size 3, say, I
>     Alan> get a message like "Praha grows to size 3" when I would have
>     Alan> expected "Praha grows to size 4"
> 
>   Did you previously build a settler in that city?

This is my guess also.  Cities can grow very soon after building a settler,
but this does not happen very often.

>   Settlers take growth from cities.

To be precise, they take 1 off its population ...

> I wish that settlers were either
> cheaper to build

Well, this wouldn't help: since 1.9.0, city growth has been the bottleneck
on producing settlers.  If it isn't for you, improve your Freeciv strategy :)

> (given that they take growth as well!) or that we had
> road/irrigation capable units that didn't take growth. 

You can edit the rulesets, I look forward to your findings!
 
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Reinier