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Just for the record, I don't know if any official ruleset should be officially changed and if that change should exist there for all eternity. This is why I will not use the official channels for something like this. I will just state some things that are open for debate: - no ruleset is perfect, fe...

I don't think that the Multiplayer ruleset should be changed by default. I think that the ruleset should adapt to the specifics of the game that is being played. Techleak in a short-turn game with two, three or four players would be bad. But having a hundred players and Longturn environment is a ver...

There is a possible problem. If idler-replacing newcomers get all techs known to 40 other people, that may actually put them into advantage comparing to some persistant players who have been playing from the start, but didn't do so well. On the other hand, maybe it's simply balancing the disadvantag...

Still, it would really, REALLY help if you guys made public some numbers. Like: - now we have X - regular maintenance by the end of the year needed: Y - we wish to upgrade which would cost us: Z For example, I'll make stuff up: if you have 2500 and you need to spend 500 by the end of the year, then ...

I thought of a(nother) way to detect POSSIBLE cheaters, but for that it would be good to have the data from the Nations tab/screen somehow extracted into a spreadsheet, either through a script (anyone?) or through the save file (Andreas?). I am not going to say more publicly, if someone can make thi...

Then again the easy way out would be removing the AddToCity flag from all the settlers. When you think about it, it's not really needed anyway since there are migrants/immigrants you can use to add population to the city. I've rarely seen settlers added to a city. Why didn't anyone think of this be...

What I didn't see is the setting used to select what unit will be created as a start unit when it's C. How to select Early Settler instead of a Settler? Instructions I saw is that this unit ROLE ("City Builder" or "Settler", not sure) needs to be the first in the ruleset. This m...

Actually, about "quick start". Can the "add to city" property be separated from "creates a city"? If yes, then that problem (if it is a problem) can be solved by creating a new unit: Early Settler. I had an idea about it, I called the "Founders", but for some ...

Well, if the only problem with creating one large city is killing off people too early, then give everyone a few warriors so that they can defend themselves early and that's it. Yes, more units would mean a quicker start. But... how did this end up in this topic? This should also be here

Well, in LT38 it's 100% and, if it was regular and not team game, it would still a bit too fast for my taste. Especially with techleak. Actually, the default would be a maximum speed, I guess. Again, the civ tech rate is set for a single-player, where you want a feeling of a steady progress agains t...