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I talk about turns because I'm thinking of a game with "default" ruleset and settings.

I don't grasp the point of researching masonry first of all. Most of the players research Pottery first in an island game.

I think the most important objective in the first 30-40 turns of an island game is to get the Republic as fast as you can. You shouldn't care about aqueducts until turn 45-55, if ever.
When do you get Magnetism or Gunpowder? I think those techs are the second objective after the Republic.

Jim-11 wrote: so how about an option the user can select to either auto advance to the next unit (the way it is now), or to stay at the current location? Thanks!

You already have that option and many others. When you start a game go to GAME-OPTIONS-LOCAL-INTERFACE. You can change a lot of things in that tab.

Thanks to both of you for your replies. I've made a fresh installation of freeciv 2.3.4 and all the rulesets work now, including civ2-3 downloaded by means of "freeciv-modpack.exe".
civ2-3 is in C:\Users\ifaesfu\AppData\Roaming\.freeciv together with the directory where it saves the games.

I've just installed civ2-3 modpack in freeciv 2.3.3 under windows7 32bits using "freeciv-modpack.exe". Then I've run freeciv, choosen "Start a new game" and then "civ2-3" in the ruleset box. Well, I haven't got to change anything else to get the client close to the main...