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

["Jim C. Nasby" <decibel@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 03:09:41PM +0000, Per Inge Mathisen wrote:
> 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

Actually, that article says they're the same... what's the difference?
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