Freeciv-2.0.0 Stable Released

Settler writes "Freeciv 2.0.0 has been released upon the world! 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. To see what this game looks like, check out screenshots here and here. This goes to show what a great game an open source project can create."

Comments

To much rules

[Anonymous Coward]

I never really liked freeciv, there are soooo much rules, they take away all the fun. I would suggest a game like the battle for wesnoth

Graphics

[zegebbers]

Although I appreciate that the core of the game is the engine, is it just me, or are the graphics lacking? I would have hoped that they could have at least done better than the graphics of a almost 10 year old game?

Re:/.'ed

[Anonymous Coward]

Yes, and you have a binary download for windows on the page linked.

But..... (from the news) MIRROR on /.

[tod_miller]

New wonder: The Eiffel Tower. Makes AIs love you and improves reputation

but... everyone *hates* the French right? ;-)

Article /.'d orig:

NEWS-2.0.0
From Freeciv
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WARNING: This is a tentative list, by no means exhaustive. See the NEWS or ChangeLog files contained with the source for more information.

WHAT'S CHANGED SINCE 1.14.2

Rules changes:

* (Beta2) Research cost has doubled, effects of science buildings doubled. SETI now improves Research Labs instead of giving free Research Labs to every city. Isaac Newton's College now improves all the player's universities.
* New units: AWACS and Workers.
* New option: national borders. Units inside your borders do not cause unhappiness under Republic and Democracy.
* It is no longer possible for one player to be in alliance with a player who is at war with another player you are allied with.
* The Civ2 ruleset now has waste. Default ruleset does not.
* Incite costs changed, now cities closer to capital, with units and with buildings have much higher incite cost.
* Killing a defending diplomat now costs you 1 movement point.
* Units now have multiple, configurable veteran levels.
* Team mates now pool their research. You may opt out and research individually by cancelling the 'Team' treaty.
* Server has voting on commands and options. You need over 50% of votes.
* When moving a unit from a transport on an ocean tile to a land tile, you lose all movement points.
* You can specify a list of players that you would like to share victory with, using the 'endgame' command.
* Nations added: Swiss, Afghanistan, Ethiopian, Assyrian, Columbian, Elvish, Galician, Hobbits, Indonesian, Kampuchean, Malaysian, Martian, Nigerian, Quebecois, Sumerian, Taiwanese, Austrian, Belgian, Phoenician and Mexican.
* New wonder: The Eiffel Tower. Makes AIs love you and improves reputation.
* The building requirements of several buildings have been changed.
* The whale special is reduced to 2 food, 1 shield and 2 trade.
* Settlers / Workers / Engineers can never get veterancy.
* Trireme's high sea loss now considers veterancy level (green 50%, veteran 25%, hardened 5%, elite 0%) before being divided by 2 if you have Seafaring or 4 when you reach Navigation (previously only fixed at 50% before being divided).
* Glacier terrain is now unsafe for land units (15% chance per turn of being lost). Also doesn't count as coastline for Trireme safety or Fish and Whale generation. Roads/railroads can be built but all unit (worker too) get 15% chance per turn of being lost any way!
* King Richard's Crusade now made obsolete by Robotics (previously Industrialization).
* Fixed tech costs based on the number of prerequisites of the tech in the tech tree.
* Nations have preferred nations to fork off when civil war occurs.

Gameplay changes:

* AI is much improved, and does not use 'double-move' any more.
* AI now conducts diplomacy with you (and against you).
* New difficulty level: Novice. It severely handicaps the AI players.
* Smarter autoexplorer and autosettler code.
* Modpack options vastly improved: You can customize buildings, add buildings as requirements to units, restrict technologies to certain nations, have split technology trees, gold upkeep for units, new units and terrain flags and lots of other options. (This is still done by editing configuration files with a text editor.)
* Fewer popups (eg choose the new government from the menu directly)
* Alternative map topologies, e.g. real support for isometric and hexagonal maps, "donut" map wrapping.
* Incomplete support for drawing civ3 graphics. See the civ3gfx (ftp://ftp.freeciv.org/freeciv/contrib/tilesets/ci v3gfx/) tileset.
* Global observer can ob

MOD DOWN

[ishark]

Someone with mod points please send this bullshit to -1. It's standard anti-free software flamebait and it's also quite transparently so. Not only it's completely off-topic, but it's clearly written to give rise to an endless stream of replies. Shame on those who modded this up for being so stupid.

Now kill it and let's move on.

Re:MOD DOWN

[FidelCatsro]

"What's wrong with "anti-free software flamebait"?"
its flamebait ,and flamebait is one fo the mod down options.
you said it yourself so expect some down moderation.
no-one(sencible) minds a competent argument against something , however you said it , it was phrased as flamebait and was featuring some glaring holes in the logic .

While i admit the grandparent could of phrased it without the insult( insult? i am not sure it was really), he is perfectly right otherwise and has a right to be pissed off with you.

Re:what a great game an opensource project can cre

[suffe]

I think you just accidentally came up with a sollution to the "eew, the tiles don't look good"-problem that some people have been voicing. Can't say that I actually read all the licenses for the FreeCol game but since it's GPLed then I assume something similar is up with their graphics.

1. Download FreeCol
2. Implement tiles in FreeCiv
3. Profit!!!