[Freeciv] Re: Smallpox newbie question

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On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 01:43:31PM +0200, Pieter van der Eems wrote:
> 
> Hi, 
> I'm rather new to this group (and freeciv in general).
> I've played some of the various civ-games (Civ1,Civ2,Civnet,Civ:CTP)
> but never at a high level. 
> 
> I recently found out about freeciv and read some of the tutorials and
> articles with great fun. I also learned about the smallpox strategie
> (never thought of that one).
> 
> Having tried it, the strategie is not one I would like to play (I'm more
> of a citybuilder myself). I also noted that there is still a lot of talk
> about changes to discourage smallpox. 

Try playing with a higher citymindist a higher landmass and/or a smaller map.
 
> Imagine my surprise when I found this:
> http://www.freeciv.org/tutorials/nopox.html
> artikel at the freeciv site. I looks to me (a newbie) a good way to halt
> smallpox. The artikel has been around for a while and the changes that
> are discussed in the artikel have been implemented (I think, I saw the
> parameters the artikel was referring too).
> 
> Is there something wrong with the rule changes noted in the article or
> is there another reason smallpox still excists ?

  http://lists.complete.org/freeciv-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx/2001/02/msg00465.html.gz

> Pieter

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