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I wish Freeciv could be played with a plot of a sequence of maps, like we see in Wesnoth campaigns. Surely, Wesnoth has been originally designed for it and Freeciv for a different things, but most of the basic tools for doing it (and with simultaneous multiplayer!) we do have, except one: the server...

Yup, riding AI ships is a high art known to few

The only solution to that is move your transport to a city a disband it. There is a command "Unload all" in the menu, noticed it ;) ? (Alas, works only in cities, you can't unload foreign cargo to neighbouring land or throw the freeriders into the sea.) But actually, it would be nice to p...

You get an embassy in every nation. That is an effect. Effects are defined in effects.ruleset file. Look at standard civ2 ruleset and add to your one lines for UN like it has for "Marco Polo's Embassy" (you need one or two sections depending on game version). You can force a cease-fire fo...

We have unit classes and types, can we have city classes? That brings long-term planning to a more important value that some players may appreciate. Also, known roles of cities that mostly can't be reasonably changed would reduce some part of micromanagement. In Ways of History game, dividing cities...

What bases do claim territory and in what radius is defined by the ruleset you play. Read the ingame help of the bases, it will say "Extends national borders of the building nation" if a base does it. Note that bases can't overclaim cities save for their own tile. So you can save tiles fro...

Borders resolution doesn't depend on currently worked tiles of the cities. In some radius (depending on the ruleset), cities claim a tile just because they have claimed it first, and a city that changes hands forgets all such claims and will have only what other surrounding cities leave to it. Out o...

Since sandbox is part of the "official" release, should I submit an enhancement request to hostedredmine? Better to osdn. I think sandbox and experimental rulesets are not guaranteed to be perfectly playable and may lack any features that are not necessary for launching, so if you don't k...

I think find.nonexistent() in v.3.1 shall get an optional parameter of (int) pointer, that will become the object's "id". There will be some messup with the id of the deleted real object but it's soluable by the scriptor. The problem of saving metadata by id while the ruleset might change ...