[Freeciv] Re: What is this smallpox thing about?

[Per Inge Mathisen <per@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 4 Mar 2006, Wolfram Sieber wrote:
> I read about that smallpox thing in the mailing list every now and then.
> But I have not the smallest clue, what might be referred by that term?
> Is it the distance of the cities to neighbouring ones? Or is it indeed
> related to pox?

Smallpox - the strategy of placing lots of small cities tightly together,
and usually not building any buildings.

Often confused with ICS - infinite city sprawl - which relates to the
strategy of endless horizontal expansion, that is, making cities, instead
of improving existing cities with buildings.

See also http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Civ:Terminology

  - Per