URL: <http://gna.org/bugs/?22081>
Summary: Cumulative veteran effects for sea units (Port Facility vs Lighthouse, etc)? Project: Freeciv Submitted by: jtn Submitted on: Sun 25 May 2014 11:21:53 BST Category: rulesets Severity: 3 - Normal Priority: 5 - Normal Status: Need Info Assigned to: None Originator Email: Open/Closed: Open Release: S2_5 r24940 Discussion Lock: Any Operating System: Any Planned Release: 2.5.0, 2.6.0 _______________________________________________________ Details: Some current rulesets allow cumulative Veteran_Build effects for sea units from both the Port Facility and a wonder, so that players with both would get Hardened sea units. We deliberately allowed this for Sun Tzu (patch #3062). However, unlike that case, in these cases the player's strategy would have to be quite distorted to get the bonus, since Port Facility and the relevant wonders are in quite different places in the tech tree, and often there's only a narrow window before the wonder is obsoleted. I don't think we should create an incentive for play like that, and I assume the current situation is an accident. * classic, experimental: It's possible to get Port Facility without obsoleting Lighthouse (Magnetism), but it's unlikely unless you do it deliberately. * multiplayer: The relevant small wonder (Magellan) is never obsolete, so cumulative effect with Port Facility is quite likely. * civ2civ3: Lighthouse-obsoleting tech, Engineering, is prerequisite for Port Facility. You could only see this if you conquered a city with Port Facility while having inferior tech and Lighthouse. * (The civ2 ruleset has the same structure as classic, but only has one veteran level. It should still be fixed for the sorts of reasons in bug #22080.) Shall we remove the cumulative sea veterancy from all these rulesets? By default I'll assume yes; if no-one complains (or gets there first) I'll take this ticket before 2.5.0. _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <http://gna.org/bugs/?22081> _______________________________________________ Message sent via/by Gna! http://gna.org/ _______________________________________________ Freeciv-dev mailing list Freeciv-dev@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/freeciv-dev