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Freeciv-1.13.0 Stable

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the games-people-play dept.

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."

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  1. why are you all negative? by JeanBaptiste · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Freeciv is a fantastic port of civ2, care to tell me what win->linux port has been better? After more hours than I will admit to, I still think freeciv beats the shorts out of civ3. I must admit that someone should make a freealphacenturi. While civ3 has some polished graphics, freeciv still has better gameplay. mkay.

  2. Nice Linux game by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    If you want a nice linux game check out Plane Shift. It's a MMORPGH done using crystal space. Very cool too. Finally something to challenge evercrack.

  3. You can ALL participate in Freeciv development by mfarah · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I first met Freeciv back in version 1.11.4. I loved for its superior user interface, and wasn't really bothered by the inferior (compared to Civ II) graphics.

    But the one thing that REALLY annoyed me about Civ 1/2 was the SHORT city lists for each nation. What did I do? I took the time to do a really long list of cities for my favorite nation (you guess which one it was) and submitted it. Now my 200-names list is PART of the game. I extended/made better some other nation's city lists, and now they're part of the game. Then I created a map of my favorite country in the world, and was incorporated, too.

    I can proudly say that even though I have NEVER touched one line of Freeciv source code, I can call myself a developer of the game. And I love it.

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  4. Re:Short summary of changes by haggar · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Among the new features since 1.12, I see that now Isotrident is the default tileset.

    I am very surprised by this decision, since you conducted a poll specifically asking the community which tileset should the new version carry by default, and the community clearly answered Trident, while Isotrident came second with a significant margin.

    I happen to know that many Freeciv developers are annoyed by the Isometric view. So what is the deal with this apparent attachment to the iso-view by some of the (more influential) freeciv developers?

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