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Freeciv-1.13.0 Stable
Martin Willemoes Hansen writes "Freeciv-1.13.0 has been released upon the world! There has been almost
a whole year of dedicated hacking. A big thanks goes to the
people,
who made it all come true. Remember to read about the exciting
news and hurry up and get it here."
Can someone explain why this was done?
Probably because the Great Wall wonder is obsoleted pretty early in the game. If you build also build a city wall around some of your cities, they won't be unprotected when it gets obsoleted.
To within half a percent, pi seconds is a nanocentury. -- Tom Duff
After more hours than I will admit to, I still think freeciv beats the shorts out of civ3.
Have you even played civ3? It's gameplay is better than freciv after you get used to the changes and graphically it kicks the crap out of freeciv. Seriously for being one of "the best" games out there for linux they really need to do some thing about those graphics.
A few tips if you want to play on your own...
Start the server, start the client, click join on the client.
from the server console,
)create youraiplayernamehere -- adds easy ai player
)set endyear yyyy - sets the year the game will end. Worth bumping this up the first few times you play.
)start
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Just a couple of mirrors from the MIRRORS file on the FTP.
i v.org/
ftp.netc.pt/pub/freeciv/
ftp.freeciv.org, webaccess also provided http://www.freeciv.de
ftp://ftp.doc.cs.univ-paris8.fr/mirrors/ftp.freec
I'm anispeptic, frasmotic, even compunctuous to have caused you such pericombobulation.
The windows port is reasonably stable, and protocol-compatible with the *nix version. It's client features are somewhat out of date, but it's playable. (And no, it doesn't require X)
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Of course. Both with and without GTK+. Sites slashdotted but the download page in googles cache will give you the pointers...
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I've also written a patch (not yet included, but probably soon, now that feature-freeze is over) that breaks up some of the map's monotony, You can see a screenshot here. (BTW: if this screenshot seems too busy, remember that there are more specials here than in a default game, and that some the pure eye-candy disappears when tile is built upon.)
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No, it's not a port of civ2. It's a very different game really, inspired by civ2, but it's very different. It's a much better game for network play, really optimised for that, and (last I checked at least) not really built for solo play at all. It's more like Civ3s more social cousin...
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Here is a summary of the changes, pluss a request:
NEW FEATURES
- You can now automate workers and specialists in cities
- We have sound support and ship a new, improved insometric tileset
- A new and much improved city dialog in the GTK client
- Windows and GTK 2.0 versions of the client
- Lots of other changes, see the NEWS file for more
RULE CHANGES
- Leftover research bulbs will carry over to next advance
- Trade routes are more effective
- You can build city walls even though you have Great Wall wonder
- Unit food cost under Communism has been reduced to 1
- If you lose your palace, you get a new for free in random city
- Units attacking ships in cities double their firepower, while defenders get only 1 firepower.
- Helicopters defending against air units get 50% penalty, and have their firepower reduced to 1 against fighter units.
- Stealth fighters and bombers are partially invisible like subs, and stealth bombers have increased attack strength from 14 to 18
A REQUEST
We are in great need of more sound effects and better graphics. If you have some talent in either direction, please considering giving us a hand.
The configure script will first see if the gtk development packages are on the system. If so then it will build the gtk client.
Else it will check if the XAW development packages are on the system, and if so it will build the XAW client.
If it can find neither it will say "configure: error: could not guess which client to compile".
To figure out what you need: use "./configure --enable-client=gtk" which will force it to try compiling teh gtk client. Then the configure script will stop the moment a requirement is not found, and it will be easier for you to figure out what you need to do to satisfy the requirements.
Civ 3 was a big disappointment. Full of bugs, sluggish gameplay, an overpowered AI whose only strategy is war and betrayal, and a loveless (I don't know a better English word for this German expression) presentation without pretty graphics or sound, which is a problem of many free games but a complete embarassment (sp?) for a commercial one. Multiplayer, of course, comes as an add-on. I felt quite ripped off, to be honest.