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I have something similar with walls, where I have a series of progressively more advanced walls that take progressively more advanced Artillery units to bypass, so there's an arms race between offensive and defensive technology. But I don't want walls to just vanish when the tech to build better one...

Prior to 3.1, yeah, that was all there was to it. 3.1 changed how stealth works. It removed the Partial_Invis flag and added a vision_layer field and different vision layers: Main, Subsurface, and Stealth. Units that aren't vision_layer = "Main" are stealthy, but there's now a distinction ...

I think all the actual AI behaviour is hard-coded, and moreover I don't think anyone actually understands it. My understanding is that the current AI code was practically all written by one guy years ago, and he's no longer involved in freeciv development, and no one else really knows how it works. ...

The failing sanity checks seem like you have some unit or city that would see stealth ("invisible") units further away than non-stealth units. That makes no sense, and is not supported. How is stealth spotting configured, anyway? I've had some things I'd like to do with it — give Destroye...

Next question, and this is just to make sure I understand how "native" tiles and units work. If I want a particular ship to move down rivers, do I have to assign it its own unit class, which considers tiles with rivers to be "native tiles"? (It seems like this is the case.) Or i...

Okay, moving on to the next question: when I was testing the illness/plague mechanic, both a Size 4 city and a Size 11 city shrank by 1. Do cities always shrink by 1, or is it randomly determined? (I know it was 25% in Civilization 1 , but that's clearly not the case here.) It's always 1. eta: It's...

You can't really do it as a player; the AI gets to cheat here because it can switch production between build classes without penalty (necessary because it's too stupid to actually plan anything). Try it as a player, you'll lose half your sunk production. I've done something similar with Wonders that...

So I've been tinkering with Wonder effects in my custom ruleset. One of the things I've done is take away Marco Polo's embassies-with-literally-everyone effect, because it's way too powerful in the early game, and it doesn't make sense to be able to get free embassies with civs that you may not have...

Also, 3.2 changed how wrapping is set in the save file, so they all default to wrapping both directions, regardless of what you set it to. 3.2 wants it on a separate line instead of in the topology line, like so Wait a sec. Is there a bug in backward compatibility (savegame format conversion) in th...

Also, 3.2 changed how wrapping is set in the save file, so they all default to wrapping both directions, regardless of what you set it to. 3.2 wants it on a separate line instead of in the topology line, like so: [settings] set={"name","value","gamestart" "topology...