Freeciv for windows needs Civ2MP veteran Beta testers!

[Cyber-Spyder]

I have been playing freeciv for a while under BSD, will it connect across platforms? I'll happily play anyone if it will...

[CapTVK]

Cyber-Spyder,

You can play Freeciv across different platforms. The only thing you should check is what version (1.13 or higher). An old 1.12 client can't connect to a 1.13 server due to some new features (CMA) which you need a 1.13 client for.

[geoffrey arnold]

Is ther any way to make the ais in freeciv easyer than thay are on easy. Id like to play against the ai a little bit before takling the experts on line( have already tried and falied to beat real people missrebly) but the ais so hard to play against thay just come in as soon as I meet them and start taking citys.
Please help

[CapTVK]

Try to play with less civs (4-7) on a smaller map. You could also change the map generator setting to individual starting islands. Use the command " set generator 2" for this in the Civserver.

http://www.freeciv.org/tutorials/art_of_freeciv.html

Islands vs Continents
The predominant choices for generation are 1 and 2. Gen 1 games distribute players amongst a couple of large continents, and smaller islands, and players may find themselves on their own small island, or sharing a continent with several other players. Occasionally you may even get your own continent. Consequently gen 1 isn't considered to be very fair, since a lot depends on where you end up, and who your neighbours are.

Generation 2 on the other hand, puts every player on their own island, with a bunch of little initially unoccupied islands thrown in for good measure. This guarantees everybody reasonably similar terrain on which to develop their empires, and at least a little time before open warfare can break out. Gen 3 does the same thing, but makes all islands, player and and spare ones, exactly the same size.

Gen 4 pairs players up on the same sized islands, which makes the identity of the player sharing your island the most critical part of the early game.

This will give some breathing space at the start of the game but you should try to expand as quickly as possible. Go for mapmaking and get those tiremes and settlers moving. The AI knows how to use them!

[deity]

I can't get the site to d/l it...

[CapTVK]

The link listed is probably out of date by now. You can also DL it from the Freeciv projects page (select the win32 port)

http://www.freeciv.org/projects.phtml

[geoffrey arnold]

d/i what mate?

[deity]

I got it of a CD from a PC mag that gave it a good write-up! It's great, better than a year ago when I last tried it out... but not MP'd yet.

[Cyber-Spyder]

Okay, I've got 1.13 and 1.14 both running, a HUGE improvement over the 1.12 version I was using, top marks guys. Anyone who wants a game send me an icq msg {117649741} or I might run into you on the meta-server

[CapTVK]

This one thing I recently discovered myself in FC. It seems a trivial game feature, but it was missing in civ2: You can also transform ocean squares to swamp land.

> You must take a boat and move the engineer(s) onto the ocean tile you
> want to transform. By taking multiple engineers you can speed it up.

And put the boat on "sentry". If you don't, and move the boat a single
tile during the process, all work is lost.

All things together....make a big package

[CapTVK]

Rafel bursig has been busy again! Take a look at this screenshot (using the original civ2 graphics)

City Dialog with open change production dialog

[Cyber-Spyder]

As much as I like and support this project... Isn't that coming very close to breaching copyright?

[geoffrey arnold]

How do i get this stuff

[CapTVK]

Originally posted by Cyber-Spyder
As much as I like and support this project... Isn't that coming very close to breaching copyright?

Not as long as you own the original Civ2. Those wouldn't be distributed with Freeciv of course. But you can use a conversion script like civ2gfx to convert them to the Freeciv format. I use civ2gfx as well, I'm simply too attached to the now iconic quality of the Civ2 graphics.

So in the normal (and SDL?) version Freeciv would use it's own graphic set. This is more a showcase of the Freeciv possibilities in general.

[CapTVK]

Originally posted by geoffrey arnold
How do i get this stuff

The developer (Rafel Bursig) is still working on it. It will be ready when it's ready.