[Freeciv] Re: city placement

[Thomas Strub <ue80@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 05:03:56PM +0200, Andreas Røsdal wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I have a gameplay question, about city placement.
> Where should cities be placed to maximize food/shields/trade?

On grass near whales :-)

> Is there an algorithm to solve this?

It allways depends on rules.
But i think something like:
max (
100* sum prod/eco 1. round
+95* sum prod/eco 2. round
+90.25 * sum prod/eco 3. round
...
+100(0.95^n) * sum prod/eco n+1. round  
)
could be a good algorithm for that

Thomas
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