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It will be 2.5 game? Is it planned to test 2.6 gaming any soon?

By the way, if set sarting government to revolutionary, the players will be able to select preferred government (from available with basic advances) at game start. Also, if you delete the government from nation set, the game will set by default compatibility.default_government from nations.ruleset.

I'm sorry, but this sound awfully complicated and I'm not sure if it would add much (or anything) to the game. You are discussing the final step of a very long voyage where I believe the voyage itself is much more interesting and rewarding than this final step. if this was implemented in the offici...

Among the ideas of imitating Civ>=3 gameplay: these games have different space program conditions, e.g. Civ3 has 10 SS parts to build one of each type and the game is won as soon as you just launch full assembly (you need a lot of rare resources to do so). Other games have Mars colonization that nee...

This seems to be even doable with existing policies mechanism. Maybe worth including into the game. Just to put some limit on the advantage we must make the policy unchangeable back until peace treaty is signed, as it is in Civ3. This is not yet realized (and very harsh in fact since late Freeciv ga...

The ruleset-specific initial buildings are listed in game.ruleset in options.global_init_buildings (can not contain great wonders). If a building in that list has active savepalace flag, then it appears whenever a civ gets a city after it had none, otherwise only in the first civ's city.

The idea is to make requirement mechanism more flexible without changing much. In 2.6 "present" field can be only TRUE (default: there is one in the range that conforms to the requirement) or FALSE (there is none in the range). I suggest allowing some other values: "all" - all it...

AFAIK they are on (for foreign trade, 2 routes/city). Inner trade, for some reason, is not popular in multiplayer.

It's a general problem of strategy games without full information - there are several strategies that cyclically have advantage over each other (typically, zergrash>development>defence>zergrash), each one may be played better or worse but selecting the right one is crucial and it is mostly just rock...