Freeciv forum

[Thue]

How about a freeciv forum on apolyton!

Freeciv is a civ2 clone with multiplayer capability. If you want to learn more about freeciv go to www.freeciv.org .
The AI (allmost) doesn't cheat, but will still give everybody a run for their money at the hardest level.

ps: Have you tried freeciv on your newly installed linux yet, MarkG?

pps: My fog of war patch is now in CVS together with a lot of my bugfixes, so if you want to try that one just download current CVS . This means it will be in the next official freeciv release

[DanQ]

We are working on a FreeCiv section, as matter of fact, for our Alternative Civs area.

It should (hopefully) be unveiled by the end of the month.

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Dan; Apolyton CS

[don Don]

I've looked at that, but the last thing I want is a Civ with even more unbalancing Wonders. But it is nice to know it's out there, sticking it to MicroSoft and rampant capitalism.

[Rasputin00]

freeciv ounds good but wheres the windows version ???

[Thue]

quote: Originally posted by Rasputin00 on 03-21-2000 05:05 AM freeciv ounds good but wheres the windows version ???

Waiting for you to port it...
Most freeciv developers are too busy to use their time to port to every little obscure fringe OS. But we do have the important ones like linux, solaris, mac, amiga, beos, misc unixes...

quote: I've looked at that, but the last thing I want is a Civ with even more unbalancing Wonders. But it is nice to know it's out there, sticking it to MicroSoft and rampant capitalism.

Why are the wonders more unbalanced than in payciv?

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[Thue]

*BUMP*

So how about that forum?
And how is the freeciv page coming along?

[DanQ]

An announcement will be made on Wednesday as to who will be taking over the Alt. Civs. section, and one of their first orders of business will be to complete the FreeCiv section.

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Dan; Apolyton CS

[Thue]

It seems to be dragging out somewhat...

Since freeciv has an open development mailing list and is in very active development right now I hope the ones who get to administer it is subscribed...

[CapTVK]

We're finally going to get a FreeCiv forum? That's great! I remember asking about it once when there was a discussion about developing ACS but that was over a year ago (talk about slow paperwork).

For the record, I think we need a forum on FreeCiv foremost and a webpage later. www.freeciv.org already answers most of the technical questions but we need more user oriented questions answered. Questions from windows users in particular.
Granted, FreeCiv is not for the fainthearted and can be a pain to set up properly so it'll probably be a support forum for us (struggling) Linux/windows users in the short/medium run.


Eagerly awaiting the forum. But is it a 'this week' or more of a 'somewhere in the coming months' type of project?

[Thue]

Actually it is quite easy to set up under linux/amiga. It is only the windows port that was an afterthought.

Please everybody who want a freeciv forum post here.

Since my last post 4 patches have been posted to freeciv-dev.

*Thue goes off to finish coding the patch that will add AC style alliances to freeciv*

[Thue]

If you insist on having a freeciv section (when what is really needed is a freeciv forum), but lack a maintainer, I suggest posting to freeciv@freeciv.org asking if anybody want the job.

[DanQ]

I need to clarify/comment on a couple of things here:

1) FreeCiv forum -- while a FreeCiv sub-section is currently under development, and should be launched within the month actually, a forum for the game is not planned to open at the same time. If someone from the FC team asked us to open one, however, we would do so as quickly as possible.

2) As for "slow paperwork", our Alt. Civs. section unfortunately has not received the attention it deserves -- at least, until a few weeks ago when he 'hired' a person to look after the area, Paul.

FreeCiv will be the latest addition to the games we cover in our Alternative Civilizations area.

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Dan; Apolyton CS

[Thue]

Umm, I am a part of the FC team! I even have write access authority to CVS.
It is me who have programmed the fog of war in CVS, the airplane goto soon to go in, and am working on the pacts patch. (besides lots of bugfixes)

If you don't believe me go to www.freeciv.org and find the administrators' email adresses. Any of them can conferm it is so.

(And no, you did not open one as quickly as possible when asked:P)
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[Lancer]

Thue, Geeez that looks interesting!

Thank you very much.

Got a question though, w/ version 1.10 do I download targz ot tar bz2 if I want to play on win 95?
DOS?

[Thue]

Hmm; the place to go is http://www.freeciv.org/windows.html , but that page is seriously bad formulated.
What I can understand is this:
-There is no newer version than 1.9 available
-You will need to get a commercial X-server (no adequate free ones available)
-It will be a major hassle to get it working

I don't think anyone is actively working on getting newer versions to work. Someone is working on a java 1.10 client, but that one is far from completion.

There has been some work on a native windows client, but again this seem to be very slow.

Probably easier to just install linux . May I recomment linux-mandrake.

(Administrators: no freeciv forum yet? You can do quicker than that )