[Freeciv] Re: How to solve ICS - increasing settlercost

[Thomas Strub <ue80@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 01:43:04PM +0300, Jussi Asp wrote:
Hi,
 
> IMO best way against smallpox is to set settlers cost 2 workers instead 
> of 1 to prevent the freecitycenter which comes with every new city and 
> maybe set settler cost higher too - 60 or 80. And in addition lowering 
> the cost of city improments by 1/4 - 1/3 would shift the balance even 
> more against smallpox, but you have to be careful to not make it too 
> easy to build big cities, because they are very powerful..  I think 
> these are simple solutions which work well. Separate, cheaper 
> terrain-Improment unit would be nice though.

People said that that slows the game. But i think its still small pox. 
And its easy to make something like small pox too. With 5-6 cities in
center which builds the settlers and 12 cities which get the homecities
of the new settlers. So you will build as many cities as possible.

I tried my patch with the actual cvs and the AI is building few but
bigger
cities. Personally i can't test it out, because all what i would say
wouldn't be unbiassed. 

Thomas
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