[Freeciv] Re: Some questions

["Dusty Leary" <dleary@xxxxxxxx>]

For what it's worth, I agree with Michael.  Adding a new game parameter
which was a production multiplier of this sort that defaulted to 10 sounds
perfect, although perhaps 10 is a bit too high, since the big cities will be
able to do massive building once they get factories and populations above
10, etc...

Also, Michael says "(I don't care whether this seems to be realistic or not
as long as it helps to solve our problem)"... Whenever people talk about
game design, there's often way too many people interested in "realism",
imo...  Realism is nice, but it should *never* come at the expense of any
aspect of gameplay.  As others have pointed out, city smallpox is rather
realistic...  But it's just not fun.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Hasselmann" <michael.hasselmann@xxxxxx>
To: <freeciv@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, December 25, 2000 10:07 PM
Subject: [Freeciv] Re: Some questions


> Hi folks,
> a lot of good ideas were mentioned for balancing the gameplay. IMHO it
> could be enough to just increase trade and production output of a city
> by 10% per city size, which means bigger cities handle their resources
> much better than smaller ones (I don't care whether this seems to be
> realistic or not as long as it helps to solve our "problem").