[Freeciv] Re: Some questions

["Mike Jing" <miky40@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Paul Dean <Paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Someone pointed out to me a potential problem with it - that players
> will always build on mountains and hills because they don't have to
> use the center square.  This may make warfare unfeasibly difficult
> because defense will be so much more effective than offense.
They can't do that because you can't choose which tile to work on in a size 
1 city: it has to be the city center.  I intend to keep min_city_center_food 
at 1, so if you build a city on very bad terrain, it will simply starve (the 
AI is having this exact problem and a patch is in the works right now).  You 
can use two settlers to make it possible if there is a better food square 
nearby, but normally it's not worth it.  This further reduces the benefit 
from building a new city because the automatic terrain upgrade is not as 
great as before.  As a side benefit, it will make settling on the poles much 
less desirable, which the AI tends to do a lot.
To allow for city growth at the begining, the food value of certain terrain 
(grassland 2->3 and plains 1->2) and food specials will have to be raised, 
so does the food penalty threshold under despotism (2->3), as suggested by 
K.  (I originally gave the city center some extra food, which is not as good 
an idea.)
> We'll just have to see how it works out in practice...
It will probably need some tweaking, but on the whole it looks pretty good, 
IMHO.
Mike

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