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To: Wolfram Sieber <wolfram.r.sieber@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: freeciv@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [Freeciv] Re: What is this smallpox thing about?
From: Per Inge Mathisen <per@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2006 15:09:41 +0000 (GMT)

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





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