[Freeciv] Re: Some questions

[Niels Weber <nath@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi!

Mike Jing wrote:

> Bobby D. Bryant <bdbryant@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Some suggestions re ICS by Civ2 players can be found at -
> >
> > http://apolyton.net/forums/Forum6/HTML/001152.html
> >
> > http://apolyton.net/forums/Forum6/HTML/001629.html
> >
> > And one mention at http://www.apolyton.com/news/arc8-2000.shtml 
> > (search the  page for ICS).
> Wow, that's a gold mine of great ideas.  I should have digged it up 
> earlier.   :-)  Thanks Bobby.
From what I read there, it doesn't seem to be a great idea to kill the 
free city centre.
Another idea came to my mind as I was reading the articles:
We could introduce a tech-maintenance-penalty. For say every ten techs  
you researched, every city will produce one less science (used for 
teaching the people). But if you build a library (university, research 
lab), this effect disappears. So for every ten techs, you would have to 
build at least a library. And when you've started building improvements 
in a city, it's often wise to let it grow to get more out of them. So 
there would still be many small cities, but your main cities will grow 
to large cities with improvements. I think this would be realistic as 
most cities are small.
Comments?

Niels